Caution over recent Noah’s Ark discovery
December 16, 2008
The Bible Places Blog’s Todd Bolen points readers to a review of a video released recently which details Robert Cornuke’s ‘discovery’ of the remains of Noah’s Ark, in Iran:
“The problem is, as with all of Cornuke’s ‘discoveries,’ that they are never published in a credible journal where specialists in the relevant fields can respond. Instead, Cornuke (like his predecessor Ron Wyatt) goes straight to the public, where the standards are much, much lower. Sadly, perhaps no group is more gullible to these sorts of claims than evangelical Christians.”
Get the video.
The review.
Christian Carnival 254
December 12, 2008
Get your tickets! Step right up, step right up! This week’s Christian Carnival is set up over at chasing the wind.
Posts include:
- How to Be a Sidetracked Mom
- Solomon - God’s Greatest Disappointment?
- Objections to Calvinism: Does the New Testament discuss Limited Atonement?
- Hey! You’ve got my nose!
“The Acoustics of Mount Gerizim and Ebal”
December 9, 2008
Before leading the people of Israel into the land of Canaan, Joshua was told to read to them from the Book of the Law at a specific geographical spot (Joshua 8:30-35):
“Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. … There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua copied on stones the law of Moses, which he had written. All Israel, aliens and citizens alike, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD, facing those who carried it—the priests, who were Levites. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.
Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law.”
At the Bible Places blog, Todd Bolen posts an excerpt from a 19th-century book which documents J. W. McGarvey’s tour of the Holy Land. McGarvey had visited the spot mentioned above, and had done an acoustics test to see how well Joshua’s voice might have carried there. The results impressed him:
“It is interesting to know that the spot chosen by God for this reading is a vast natural amphitheatre, in which the human voice can be heard to a surprising distance.”
Read the entire post, and see images of the spot at the Biblical Studies and Technological Tools blog.
Weekend Walkabout: December 6, 2008
December 6, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
- Afterlife in the Old Testament: The Scholarly Consensus? - Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
- Bible Memorization Worksheet 2009 - Triablogue
- Converging the Web and Desktop - ChurchCrunch
- Different Isn’t Wrong … - Justin Wise
- Encouragement for Trans-Racial Adoption Anxiety - Vitamin Z
- Fox News Conservative? - Russell Moore
- Grand Duke Henri’s Last Stand - Rod Dreher
- Hate Your Enemy? - Greg Gilbert, Church Matters
- Innocent Suffering - DesiringGod blog
- J.K. Rowling’s Fairy Tales for Wizards (and Muggles) - Sherry Huang, Idol Chatter
- Korea - 1 Day Left - Let’s Start Right - Human3rror
- Lay Worship - The Sacred Sandwich
- My Two Cents #123 - Osama Bin Lego and other Islamic fare - Daniel G. two or three
- No Food, Drink or Levity Allowed in the Sanctuary - Motte Brown, Boundless
- Our Problem with the Old Testament - Justin Taylor
- Pithy Pre-pastorate Pastoral Pointers - Dan Phillips
- Quantum of Follies - Dayo Olopade, Culture11
- Russian Patriarch Dies - Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today liveblog
- Short Saturdays - Who needs our money? - Stuff Christians Like
- Things we should be doing - Amy Scott
- Ultimate 80’s Medley - Denny Burk
- Video of My Sermon on the Bible - Adrian Warnock
- Wanted: Kindness - Carla Rolfe
- 20 EXcellent Free Rich-Text Editors - Webdesigner Depot
- Yes, the terrorists targeted Jews - Daniel Pulliam, GetReligion
- Zacharius Ursinus - Theopedia article (Z’s are always hard to find … but it will be worth your while to learn something about Ursinus, a contemporary of Martin Luther)
‘Should Christians circumcise their sons?’
December 4, 2008
Adrian Warnock writes on the topic, in the third in a series of posts on multiculturalism:
“Should Christians circumcise their sons? If you’re looking for a legalistic answer, I’m not at all sorry that I have to disappoint …”
Making sense of Solomon
December 3, 2008
From ASBO Jesus:
Weekend Walkabout: Nov. 21, 2008
November 21, 2008
[Friends, I'm pressed for time today – please pardon the dearth of posts. May your weekend be a joyful one. You can help it in that direction by making time to seek Him. See you Monday, Lord willing. - HC]
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
- The Addict in Us All, Carolyn McCulley
- Benedict on Monasticism, The Anchoress
- Considering Servant Leadership (parts one, two, three), Jan Lynn
- Dear Church Member, Ragamuffin Soul
- The Empty Promise of Meditation, Al Mohler
- Five by Five, Defending. Contending.
- Great Ideas for churches to make the most of Christmas, what’s next
- Happy 100th Birthday, Irene Peterson!, John Piper
- If not consumerism, what?, Rod Dreher
- Joshua Guthrie: Dollar for a Drink, Alex Harris
- Korea - 14 Days - Questions, Questions, Questions…, John Saddington
- Lately, I’ve Been Rethinking My Position on Gay Marriage, Locusts & Honey
- A Mother’s Hope, girl talk
- New Archaeological Evidence for the Old Testament?, Aaron C. Rathburn
- Operation 513: In Memory of a Fellow Evangelist, Reformed Evangelist
- Puritan Reformed Journal, Vol. 1, Michael Dewalt
- Qeiyafa, Looting, and Buried Secrets, Todd Bolen
- The Realism of the Supernatural, Sally Thomas
- Study: Two Thirds of Americans Believe Their Values Not Shared by Hollywood, Sharper Iron
- Ten Dollar Blessings and a Lesson in Circles, Billy Coffey
- The Unresolved Tensions of Evangelicalism Part 1: The Biblical Worldview, Michael Spencer
- Videos of the Week - 11/20/08, Collide
- Why I Gave Up ‘Humility’, John Stackhouse
- X-Ray Discovery Sparked 19th-Century DIY Craze, Wired Science
- Your ‘past’ year resolution?, Eugene Cho
- Zondervan Acquires Online Community-Building Resource for Churches, Justin Taylor
Weekend Walkabout: Nov. 8, 2008
November 8, 2008
26 posts from the week that escaped mention (almost!):
- Amway Evangelism
- Billy Clubs, Firehoses, and Attack Dogs for the New Civil Rights Movement
- C’mon Obama Voter, You Have To Admit This is Pretty Funny
- Dominican Republic - Ordinary Superheroes
- Errr…
- Fear Not!
- “Gross Food Related Youth Group Games” (Stuff Christians Like)
- “How Not to Raise a Pagan”
- I’m Saved! But From What? - Part 3
- James White - Debates in London
- King David’s Water Tunnel in Jerusalem
- Law and Gospel: Galatians - The practice of Christian liberty
- Missing your calling
- Nate Huss recognizes National Adoption Month with new song, video
- Obama and the Bishops
- Passion For The City
- Quote of the day
- Real Life Photoshop
- Still having a dream
- Two songs
- Urban Exile: Re-discovering Justice?
- Voting for our imaginations
- What Churches Can Learn from Election Marketing
- X-ray Crab (OK, not from a Christian blog, but it does start with an ‘X’!)
- You’re a Hyper-Calvinist
- ‘Zack and Miri’ Advertising Leaves Out the P-Word
Divorce and remarriage in Deuteronomy 24:1-4
November 8, 2008
The Hebrew behind the following passage is analyzed at Zondervan’s koinonia blog:
“If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.”
Review: The Bible, Rocks and Time, by Davis A. Young and Ralph F. Stearley
October 22, 2008
Posted by Peter Enns, author of the controversial Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Old Testament. Enns writes:
“An issue that is very important to me, both apologetically and spiritually, is for Christian theology to be in honest conversation with scientific research, particularly as it affects our understanding of Genesis and origins. Young and Stearley have produced a hefty volume aimed at demonstrating that ’several purported scientific claims advanced by young-Earth creationists do not stand up to scrutiny and fail to establish a young age for the Earth.’”
See also the following exchange on creation at beliefnet:
- Ken Ham, “The Bible teaches creationism“
- Karl Gilberson, “Why I am not a creationist“
(More on the Peter Enns controversy here.)
Eli-who?
October 21, 2008
John Piper lays out five reasons why we can take heed of the lessons shared by Elihu, the young man who appears in the middle of Job’s story:
“Through him, we learn something that neither Job nor his friends had discovered, namely, that the suffering of the righteous is not a token of God’s enmity but of his love.”
“Christology in the Old Testament: a panel discussion of how and to what extent we should see Christ in the Old Testament”
October 2, 2008
Hear the Quicktime audio of this engaging discussion at Southern Seminary (HT: Denny Burk).
