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Comments about the Creation Museum
2007-06-15 02:41:00 In an earlier post, I displayed a video promo of the new Creation Museum . Casey, from Casey’s Critical Thinking, has a very good discussion going on over at his blog regarding this topic. Christianity, Culture Copyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your ... More About: Comments , Comm
Turn Your Christian Blog Into a Book?
2007-06-14 02:35:00 Advice on how to do just that was presented at GodBlog Con, a convention for Christian bloggers at Biola University in 2006. The speaker is Pat Sikora from the blog Sometimes I Feel Like a Piece of Bologna. The mp3 file of the lecture can be found here. BloggingCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal ... More About: Book , Turn
Genesis 1 vs. Enuma Elish
2007-06-13 01:33:00 Many people refer to Enuma Elish as a creation story when the creation account is only a subplot to the major story ? the elevation of the god Marduk as ruler over all other gods. The motive of this story is political, not moral as the account of the creation and fall of man as ... More About: Christianity , Genesis , Gene , ENUM , Genes
Genesis 6-9 vs. the Gilgamesh Epic
2007-06-12 00:32:00 The account of the flood is very similar in both of these accounts. I have often heard stories from non-Christians that the biblical accounts borrowed from other sources. I assume that this is an example of one of them. What I cannot understand, though, is why the Bible had to borrow from Gilgamesh and not ... More About: Christianity , Genesis , Gene , Epic , Ames
Deuteronomy vs. Hammurabi?s code
2007-06-11 02:30:00 Many similarities exist in the laws presented in both of these documents, but I am not really sure what that means. I would assume that some scholars in the liberal or critical camps might claim, as they would in number two above, that since there are similarities, the laws of Israel had to be borrowed ... More About: Christianity , Code , Hammurabi , Deuteronomy
The Ancient Near-Eastern Setting of the Mosaic Law
2007-06-10 02:28:00 The ancient Near Eastern setting of the Mosaic Law further justifies that the specifics of the law were for a specific people in a specific time. The parallels between the Mosaic Law and the other laws of the time period show that there were common things occurring in that society which required specific laws to ... More About: Christianity , The A , Ancient
Non-Biblical Documents from the Ancient Near East
2007-06-09 05:16:00 While reading non-Biblical ancient Near East ern documents I could not help but to notice the apparent lack of multiple manuscript support as evidenced by the numerous gaps in the narrative accounts. These stories were not well preserved. A guess as to why might be that these stories were not accurate portrayals of history so they ... More About: Christianity , The A , Ancient
Contemporary Implications from Comparing the Old Testament with Ancient Nea
2007-06-08 03:54:00 When God created us we were perfect. Then sin entered our lives through our own fault. This caused our nature and the nature of the world to become a perversion of the original perfection. What was once good was good no longer. Evil came to exist as good gone wrong; perfection twisted. I can remember my ... More About: Culture , Bible , Contemporary , Tempo , Testament
Pocket Bibles: Evangelism Tool
2007-06-06 21:24:00 The Pocket Testament League has free pocket-sized Gospels of John that are great to leave as take-aways in any evangelism situation. Bible, Christianity , evangelism, Gospel of John, pocket testament leagueCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you ... More About: Tool , Bibles , Evangelism
Qualities of a Great Apologist
2007-06-06 01:39:00 ?Andrew Fuller?s success as an apologist was as much a product of his temperament as of his abilities. To be successful, an apologist must be humble and gracious. The most skillfully crafted argument is of no effect if the intended audience takes offence and ceases reading. Fuller took great care to try to avoid offending ... More About: Great , Polo , Logi
Creation Museum
2007-06-05 03:42:00 A museum devoted to scientifically proving the veracity of the Genesis creation account opened recently. This is a Current TV promo to the longer special. Bible, Christianity , creationism, Culture , evolution, intelligent design, scienceCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news ... More About: Museum , Creation
Increase Traffic to your Christian Blog: Part 3
2007-06-03 18:46:00 In this post I will discuss the benefits of combining two sources of blog traffic: Top Sites lists and Blog Traffic Exchanges. Top Sites lists are great, but only if your site is at the top. I am a member of BlogTopList and TopBlogArea, but since I am a new member, my site appears pages deep ... More About: Christian , Increase Traffic , Part
Increase Traffic to your Christian Blog: Part 2
2007-06-02 21:38:00 In this post I will discuss the value of Blog Community Sites. There are three main sites: MyBloglog, Bumpzee, and Blog Catalog. I have posted a link to a site reviewing these three in a previous post and a comparison of the first two can be found here. I will leave the comparisons to the ... More About: Christian , Increase Traffic , Traffic , Part
Increase Traffic to your Christian Blog: Part 1
2007-06-02 02:16:00 I have a background in internet marketing. I have been successful at creating referral sites which only existed to drive traffic to people who would pay me to send people to their products. I did this a few years ago when I had a lot of time and, quite frankly, it was quite profitable. But ... More About: Christian , Increase Traffic , Traffic , Blog , Part
?Truth is unkillable?
2007-06-01 20:44:00 The new tagline of this blog, “truth is unkillable,” is a quotation from Balthasar Hübmaier. anabaptist, Balthasar Hübmaier, Christianity, truth, unkillableCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please ... More About: Truth , Killa , Kill , Ruth
Inerrancy: What is It?
2007-06-01 02:48:00 The doctrine of Inerrancy simply states that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact: all of the Bible is true, from book to book, chapter to chapter, verse to verse, in every way, concerning everything that it talks about. This does not mean that the Bible ... More About: Christianity
Inerrency: What is It?
2007-06-01 02:48:00 The doctrine of Inerrancy simply states that Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact: all of the Bible is true, from book to book, chapter to chapter, verse to verse, in every way, concerning everything that it talks about. This does not mean that the Bible ... More About: Christianity
Spritual Gifts - Tongues or Vacuuming?
2007-05-31 04:50:00 In the book of Acts, the apostles were baptized in the Holy Spirit after they already believed in Jesus Christ. Some churches have taken this to mean that being saved is a two-step process. What they forget is that the apostles were living in a unique time; the transition time between when Jesus ascended ... More About: Gifts , Sprit , Ming , Tongue , Tongues
William Lane Craig Defends the Resurrection
2007-05-30 04:31:00 If you read my previous post and did not know who William Lane Craig is, then this video is for you! Watch and hear him do one of the things he does best: defend the resurrection of Jesus! apologetics, Christianity , empty tomb, jesus, resurrection, william lane craigCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for ... More About: Apologetics , Resurrection , Ends
Who is the Holy Spirit?
2007-05-29 05:28:00 The Holy Spirit , the third Person of the Trinity, has all of the divine aspects of God, since He is God. The role of the Holy Spirit is to mainifest the active presence of God in the world and in the church. It is the Holy Spirit that leads the unbeliever to Christ. It ...
Greg Koukl vs. Deepak Chopra
2007-05-28 17:51:00 This is an older video, but a great one. For those of you who do not know, Faith Under Fire, hosted by Lee Strobel, was a weekly religious-debate show that used to air on the PAX network. It has been off the air for years now, but the material has begun to come out as ... More About: Christianity , Culture , Deepak Chopra , Apologetics , Greg
Joshua 7:1-26 - Don?t Steal?
2007-05-27 21:31:00 Although the Bible says in numerous other places that stealing is wrong, I would not make that application from this passage. I would not say that Achan was punished for stealing. He was punished for not following the orders of God, knowing he was not following the orders, and trying to hide his disobedience from ... More About: Christianity , Steal , Joshua , Josh
Pomo or Psychological Perception?
2007-05-26 21:43:00 I have been having a conversation with a co-worker recently regarding postmodernism. This is a topic that I’ve had some exposure to through my studies at Biola University, especially in courses taught by R. Scott Smith, author of Truth and the New Kind of Christian: The Emerging Effects of Postmodernism in the Church. As we were ... More About: Culture , Psychological , Psych , Logic , Logical
Moral Relativism Failure #4: Self-Refuting
2007-05-25 02:53:00 Another argument against moral relativism is that the position is self-refuting. This means that when it is tested against its own criteria, it fails to pass. If I were to write ?I cannot write a word in English,? the statement would be self-refuting because I had just written the statement in English. Likewise, the claim ... More About: Culture , Relativism , Failure , Apologetics , Oral
Moral Relativism Failure #3: Consistant Moral Constructs
2007-05-24 02:44:00 Because there are moral concepts that have appeared in every society, regardless of their contact with each other, there must be a source of morality that is distinct from these individual societies. Although the moral relativist claims that morality is a human invention, morality is not something invented by human beings at all. ... More About: Culture , Relativism , Failure , Apologetics , Const
Moral Relativism Failure #2: A False Assumption
2007-05-23 03:01:00 Moral relativism is based on the false assumption that the existence of differences of opinion equates to the nonexistence of any ?correct? opinion. A moral relativist may argue that we cannot know which version of morality is right, and so none of them can be wrong. But does the alleged existence of multiple moral ... More About: Culture , Relativism , Failure , Apologetics , Oral
Moral Relativism Failure #1: No Standard to Judge
2007-05-22 07:23:00 Moral relativism does not provide us with a standard to judge the actions of other cultures, leaving us with no intelligible difference between the good or evil actions of other cultures or individuals. If moral relativism is true, we cannot judge other cultures as morally wrong. A moral relativist might respond by saying ... More About: Culture , Judge , Standard , Relativism , Failure
Global Warming? Professor of Atmospheric Science Says No!
2007-05-21 00:11:00 Artie Auer, who was professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming for 22 years said: Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time. Read More. Culture, global warmingCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site ... More About: Science , Global Warming , Global , Esso , Atmos
Hebrews 12:15-16: How to Worship
2007-05-20 06:21:00 Hebrews 12:15-16 (Listen) 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal. (ESV) This passage tells us that ... More About: Worship , Ship , Hebrews , Brew
Francis Beckwith Interview
More articles from this author:2007-05-20 06:14:00 Francis Beckwith, who has made a comment on this blog, has been interviewed by Christianity Today. Christianity, christianity today, francis beckwithCopyright © 2007 Prudent Musings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please ... More About: Interview , Franc , Francis 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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