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A Response to John Wilkinson’s post on Old Testament Genocide

John Wilkinson is the High School Pastor at LCBC Church in Manheim, PA and has a new book coming out on faith-based apologetics. Since he and I may be the only two apologists in a church of 10,000...

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Why “The Bible is our Instruction Manual” is the Worst Metaphor in the...

It has happened on several occasions that I have been in some class or conference listening to a teacher expound on this or that Bible story. Some teachers are more interesting than others, and yes, on...

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Keeping Up with the “Hot” New Hermeneutics

I do not react immediately to most things. Whether it’s a bit of local gossip or a controversial new book, my first instinct is to wait, get all the facts (at least as many as I can), and only then...

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Book Review: “The Bible Made Impossible” (part 1)

Christian Smith’s book The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture came out back in August and instantly became the topic du jour on evangelical blogs—for...

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Should We Use the Bible as Set of Principles to Live By?

In The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture, Christian Smith argues that the way most evangelicals read Scripture needs a complete overhaul. According to...

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Will 2012 Be the Year of Bible Suffrage?

Way back in October, before the National Meeting of the ETS…and Thanksgiving…and Christmas…and New Year’s…I read Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is Not a Truly Evangelical...

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How Can a Narrative (like the Bible) Be Authoritative?

This is part two of what I thought, in my naivete, would be a fairly straightforward little research project. The idea for the project came to me after reading Christian Smith’s The Bible Made...

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The Advantages of Reading the Bible Like a Novel

At this point, my step-by-step method for teaching “Joe and Mary church-goer” how to read the Bible christocentrically is still in the analytical stage. In part 1 of the project, I asserted that the...

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Book Review: “How to Read the Bible Through the Jesus Lens”

Reading and understanding the Bible is no easy task. Most Christians agree that the Bible is—in some mysterious way—the inspired and authoritative word of God. But it seems so foreign, and (let’s be...

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Why The Bible Doesn’t Need to Be “Applied”

Way back before Christmas, I read Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. The book inspired me (and pretty much everyone else who...

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