This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Biblical LanguagesSince I’m on the topic of textual criticism and the like, I felt that now would be the appropriate time to go more in-depth with the biblical languages. I’m going to attempt to give a comprehensive, albeit surface-level, overview of the languages and their characteristics. For anyone that hasn’t studied these languages (or any language), this should be a helpful starting place and maybe will interest you in going further with your studies. For those that have studied the languages presented, this may be a good refreshe...

“That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children.” (Psalm 78:6) Each generation of people tends to regard its own times as the most significant of all, toward which all past history has been merely a preparation. The fact is, however, that God has “been our dwelling place in all generations” (Psalm 90:1), and He is equally concerned about any generations yet to come. This is why He stresses repeatedly that the great truths concerning God’s creation, His character, His great wo...

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series SDA Propaganda RefutedI thought that this topic was done. Glenn basically conceded. However, now I’ve irrefutable evidence that Glenn (our SDA pal) is willfully ignorant. His newest post doesn’t even begin to address arguments that I raised here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here. Now I know that Glenn read what I wrote. He made comments on a couple of the posts directly and on his site. So I know that he knows the arguments that I raised which he never interacted with. Glenn just keeps on promoting his view (which has ...

President Barack Obama spoke last week at the National Prayer Breakfast about the need to return to civility and see God in the faces of our political opponents. The president is by and large a brilliant speaker that commands attention and speaks with seeming insight and intelligence. I emphasize the word “seeming.” Whenever any politician calls for a return to the good old days when people were civil to each other, politically or otherwise, I strain to find the mythical world they are referring to where civility and manners once reigned. In American history there has never been such a tim...

“And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.” (1 Chronicles 4:9) Though neither his parents nor descendants are included, the name of Jabez has apparently been inserted in the genealogical lists of 1 Chronicles because of a notable prayer of his. In spite of its seemingly selfish nature, his prayer was answered when he “called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil,...