Tuesday, October 28, 2008

AKEDAH



I recently decided that it was about time for me to begin collecting and sorting many of my various monographs. Specifically, I want to focus on those which involve the Faith and Literature and which reflect my attempts at understanding what we are to know and what we are to do.


ESSAYS

Translating the Gospel

So Far ... What is it about Mormonism that prevents its followers from having salvation in Christ?

What is it about Mormonism that prevents its followers from having salvation in Christ?

Egalitarianism, Evolution and Abortion

Scripture Interprets Scripture: Annihilationism, Non-Penal Substitutionary Atonement and a Multiple Choice Question To Keep You Up Tonight

Inerrancy and Textual Variatians in the Scriptures

On the Death of Animals

Stumbling Blocks for the Glory of God

Global Warming

Another Reason to Understand the Adam of Genesis 1 and 2-3 as Being Figurative and A-historical

JESUS WAS NOT PUNISHED BY GOD FOR THE SINS OF HUMANITY

Loving Those You’ll Never Know

ONLY WARREN CAN GO TO NORTH KOREA

The Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount

The Man-made Argument for "Man made in the Image of God": An Argument Against the Complementarian View of God (Made by a Man Who Has It Made as a Man

DO NOT FORBID SPEAKING IN TONGUES (1 Cor 14:39)

The Problem With The Baptist Faith and Message

To You Who Attempt To Force Others To Adopt Your Traditions: YOU AND YOUR TRADITIONS ARE NOT ABOVE SCRIPTURE OR JESUS CHRIST.

Inerrancy and the Historical Veracity of Literary Scripture

Alcohol and Vacillating to the World

The Use of the Word "Sinner"

The Traditions of Men and the Meaning of Scripture

Narrowing Doctrinal Parameters

A Thought on Contemporary and Traditional Worship

Justice, Mercy and Punishment: A Sermon on Genesis 4:2b-16 on the Occasion of the 5th Anniversary of September 11th

Should Women Teach Men At Church?

The Problem With Penal Substitionary Atonement

Man From Mud Thru Mammals: The Value of Man Amidst Evolutionary Theory

Open vs Closed Communion, or "You're Not Worthy!"

To the Seminary Student Interested in SBC Politics:

Seven Observations Concerning Alcohol Abstinence

Oinos: Yes, It Actually Means "Wine"

Hubris In The Pulpits: 14 Problems With Advocating Complete Abstinence Of Alcohol Consumption

The Character and Motives of Judas Iscariot

There's A Slow Train A'comin': Truth and Patience Against Christian Cultural Dogmatism

The Inheritors

Paradigm Shifts, Modern Psychology and Nouthetic Counseling

“One” Man And “One” Woman?

The Dissent of Man: Where We Currently Stand With Regards To The Conservative Resurgence

The Dissent of Man: Cliff Notes Version

A Review of Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, by J. P. Moreland.

Soul Competency, Baptist Revisionism, and Inerrancy

Inerrant Art

Who Adam and Eve Were

The Textual Evidence For Jacob Wrestling An Elohiym

"Private Prayer Language" And Dictating An Individual's Personal Relationship With God

Is Naturalism A Religion?

The Satan and Ezekiel 28: Reasons Why These Two Are Not Connected

The Problem of Atheism and Its Solution: A Call to Abandon Apologetics as an Evangelical Method

The Abandonment of Hell

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?

Fear, Faith and the Proper Perspective: Christians and Catastrophe

Every Term Is Sacred: A Response to Dr. Al Mohler's Article "Deliberate childlessness & moral rebellion"

Culture and Calamity: Where Do We Go From Here?

CRISIS IN THE POT: or The Southern Baptist Convention, The Conservative Resurgence, and The Evangelical Crisis.

A Definition of Inspiration

The Historicity of Christ

The Circenses Faith and Message 2004

The Doctrine of Drinking

Pyrrhic Victories: Winning the Culture Wars

Assault of the Earth?

Reflections on Acts 9:28-30

Evangelical Evolutionism


COMMENTARIES

For prospective seminary students ...

FIRST-PERSON: Are God & Allah the same? [Updated with commentary]

It's Only Symbolic or It's Symbolic!

Many evangelicals unwittingly live as feminists

SBFM2005

Nouthetic-Only Counseling: The Fad Continues


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

"Born-Again" Part Three: Subjective and Objective Truth

"Born-Again" Part Two: Connotations and Apathy

"Born-Again" Part One: Replies on Translating anothen

Identifying Gehenna: An Answer to a Question on Annihilationism

Language, Culture, and Mythology Concerning Jacob Wrestling with an Elohiym

Is the Elohiym of Genesis 32 Malicious?

Blessings and Names: The Identity of Jacob's Opponent in Genesis 32

The "Suffering Servant" and the Atonement

What I Believe About the Atonement of Christ

Creeds and Confessions

Is An Unbeliever Condemned By Participating In Communion?

Inerrancy and the SBC

A Discussion On The Atonement

When An Unbeliever Can Eat Communion Elements

When Communion Is Open And When It Is Closed

John the Baptist vs. Jesus the Christ

Worshipping God in Vain

Divine Creation

The Book of Daniel (Anchor Bible)

Marriage and Divorce

Hell, What Is It Not Like?: A Reply To A Friend

A Question Answered and Replied

A Response to an Answer: On the Trinity, God's Word and the Inerrancy of Scripture as espoused by the Evangelical Theological Society

Killing in the Name of America

Should Christians Sue Other Christians?

Melchizedek and Christ

According to the Order of Melchizedek

A Good and Timely Discussion

Plow Shears and Swords

The Great Nouthetic Counseling Debate


SATIRE

"Do They Know It's Christmas?": An Open Letter from the Angel Gabriel to the Shepherds Abiding in the Field, Keeping Watch Over Your Flocks

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF (PART TWO): Concerning celibacy

Gun Control vs. Alcohol Abstinence

KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF (PART ONE): The Case For Hand-Raising Abstinence

The God of Mohammed in Greensboro

God Does Not Call The Rain To Fall

The Tale of Lady Godiva

the Conservative Re-Resurgence (2006)

Si Dios es por nosotros, ¿quiĆ©n contra nosotros?

The Historical-Critical Nuclear Method

On The New NEBTS Teaching Policy

FIRST-PERSON: A creationist watches ‘Bugs Bunny’

Mr. McBeth


MISCELLANEOUS

Proof for the Existence of God

Reassessing the Pre-Fallen World: Distinguishing Between What We like and What God Likes

Soul Competency Amongst 19th Century American Baptists

It Was Good For Bach and Mozart ...

Recommended Religious Reading List

Head Coverings During Prayer: Applying 1 Corinthian 11:4 at Graduation

How one can believe the Bible is wrong and still be an inerrantist

A Sabbath with Soap

For those people who are suffering with sins related to the homosexual lifestyle:

The Unopened Box

Friends with the President

The Wonderful Blessings of Being a Southern Baptist

Three Questions on the Inerrancy of Scripture

Questions For The Faint of Faith And Not For The Frustrated and Faint of Heart

Popularity and the Christian Minister

The Top 10 Reasons Which Make You Believe That Your New Testament Grader Has Been Watching American Idol

Panis Circenses' 50 Top Most Influential Christians

How did Methuselah die?

Evolution, the Gospel, and the Baptist Press

SBC Heresy Trials

To the Incoming Seminary Freshman

Question

Another Question

Reasons For The Effectiveness of John Paul II

I Wonder What Stephen Hawking Thinks Of All This?

Can Christians Believe That People Are Born Gay?

panem et circenses ...

"a 'true' church"

The Great Mystery of Our Generation

Fear and Loathing in November


MORE MISCELLANEOUS

BEZALEL

The Dance

The Parable of the Two Trees

T is for Tofu

Essential Children's Books

TOP 50 RESTAURANTS IN THE METROPLEX

An Open Letter To My Niece And To All Who Are About To Read The Chronicles of Narnia For The First Time

The Arky-Arky Song

Super Tuesdays

A Parable

The Death of a Sitcom Character

Asa Nisa Masa: A Critical Review of 8 1/2

It Is As It Was: A Review of The Passion

Terminals of Endearment: A Review of The Terminal

My 100 Favorite Films

I Dream Of Brownie With The Light Blue Jeans


QUICK THOUGHTS

I Confess

The Height of Goliath

The Humour of Deutero-Isaiah in Isaiah 56:3-5

A Quick Thought on the Image of God

What Is Jesus Like?

"The greatest born among men" (7:28-35)

A Quick Thought on God as Being

A Quick Thought (Did Jesus Carry A Bible?)

Two Quick Thoughts on Moses and the Promise Land

First Insights Into The Book Of Joshua

A Quick Confession of Christ

A Quick Thought (Young-Earth Creation)

A Not So Quick Thought ... But Worth The Read (Atheists Teaching Our Children)

A Literal Question To Ponder Non-literally (Literal Interpretations)

Quote of the Day

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