Theology That Bites Back
One of the features of modern life together, one that requires some explanation, is our apparent limitless capacity to adapt to absurdity. Examples surround us on every hand, but let’s take the fact of tranny boys running in girls’ track meets. And lo! It turns out that boys are better at being girl runners than …
“To pick up a brush with a claim you can reproduce what happened is to deny what happened” (Papa Don’t Pope, pp. 99-100).
“Those who object to portraits of Jesus should not have various Christological heresies assigned to them. It is as if a ham-fisted painter tried a portrait of my best friend, and I complained the painting had no soul. The painter could not reply that I was saying my friend had no soul. But we are …
Dear Allen and Carol, I am writing both of you together because I believe we need to tie this up into one bundle. Carol, you have been corresponding with Nancy for a number of weeks now, and Allen, you and I have been doing the same. Nancy and I have spent a good bit of …
So I need to respond very briefly to this rejoinder from Hohn Cho. I have three basic points, rising in order of importance. First, in that rejoinder, he referred to himself as “a gent named Hohn Cho,” quoting how I had referred to him in my earlier post. I also referred to him throughout as …
I step away from my computer for a minute, and what happens? So a gent named Hohn Cho at Pyromaniacs has taken me to task for missing the point on sexual abuse. You can read all of what he has to say here. I will be responding to just some of what he had to …
In Monday’s post, the one on Al Mohler’s apology regarding CJ Mahaney, I made a comment that I would like to develop a bit more. I said this: “One of the hardest things in the world for human pride to do is to seek forgiveness when you have done genuine wrong. This is why it …
“We know this because when Paul discusses the golden calf incident, he calls this worship of YHWH idolatry . . . (1 Cor. 10:7-8). So the apostle Paul condemns a certain form of YHWH worship as idolatry. What? Because of the presence of the calf, not because of the absence of an invocation of YHWH. …
“In biblical vocabulary, false gods are not the same thing as non-existent gods” (Papa Don’t Pope, p. 95).
