The True Sacrifices of God

So why doesn’t God want another young bull or even a single male goat from the Israelites? There’s actually two reasons … but we modern Christians have adopted one particular error that stops us from noticing one of those reasons.

Blind Faith and the Age of Reason

I’m not a believer in blind faith. I think blind faith is stupid and dangerous.

Statistics on Born Again and Churched Christians

This isn’t condemnation. This is pleasing God. This is finding God’s will. And if we call ourselves Christians, then nothing else ought to matter to us.

Commenting on the Bible

I’d like to direct those of you who read this to the commentary section of my Rest of the Old, Old Story site. I’m going to start updating it, beginning with the things found in today’s blog on Jeremiah 6.
Why should you read a commentary put together by me (especially one as sparse as is [...]

The Proof Is in the Pudding: Jesus Approves the Scientific Method

It is a basic premise of the scientific method that you need to prove what you believe.
When Albert Einstein suggested that massive objects can exert enough gravitational pull to bend space, he had to prove it. The way he did that was by waiting for a total eclipse, then looking for a star that was [...]

Lights to Rule the Day and Night

Genesis 1:14-19 describes the creation of the sun, moon, and stars on the 4th day.
Think about that sentence a moment.
What sort of days happen without the sun, moon, or stars? Can we really be discussing 24-hour days,  whether or not Genesis says there was an evening and a morning, when there’s no sun?
Some 1800 years [...]

Genesis One, Day Three: Edible Vegetation – Grass, Herbs, and Fruit

I’ve taken a couple days to address day three of creation because it stumped me for a while. “Hmm,” I thought, “Maybe day 3 really is just about saying God created dry land and plants.”
I really didn’t believe it, though, so I waited. Sometimes I have to seek God just a little bit more. It’s [...]

Light and Darkness

I started back through Genesis today, and I decided to really devote myself to the principles of Scripture interpretation that I talk about all the time. It made for a very short but very pleasant reading of only a part of Genesis chapter one.
In its early days, the church taught that Jesus came to fulfill [...]

Christian Parenting: How to Keep Your Children from Jumping Ship

We all want to know about Christian parenting. We would all like to know how to keep our children from jumping ship and going to the world.
Today, I heard a speech by Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, who blames belief in modern scientific evidence for things like evolution as the reason why children [...]

The Historic Christian Faith? – Norman Geisler, Luther’s 95 Theses, and the Bible

Error, lies, and foolishness are always excellent motivators for me to blog.
The particular embarrassing morass of propaganda to which I am referring is John Ankerberg’s interview with Norman Geisler. The interview is such a collection of Protestant fantasy that I hardly know where to start.
However, start I will.
Norman Geisler
Geisler doesn’t believe in Purgatory. Fair enough. [...]