All Bible: Old Testament articles – Page 13
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4 essential tips that will transform your Bible reading experience
Deron Spoo shares four tips for Bible reading that have grown his own relationship with Jesus
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Unbelievable? Should modern biology make us rethink theology? Luke Janssen vs Fuz Rana
Luke J Janssen once took a literalistic view of the creation story in scripture. But his studies in biology, genetics and evolution made him change his mind on how Christians should think. His book “Standing on the shoulders of giants: Genesis and Human Origins” says the ...
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Unbelievable? Is God a God of wrath? Joshua Ryan Butler & Brian Zahnd
How should Christians interpret scriptures that describe the ‘wrath’ of God? Did God punish Jesus on the cross? Are we punished for our sins or do we merely suffer the ‘consequences’ of them? These and other questions are debated as Joshua Ryan Butler author of “The ...
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Unbelievable? Is Open Theism a heresy? James White vs John Sanders
John E Sanders is one among a number of evangelical theologians such as Greg Boyd who have embraced Open Theism – the view that God does not necessarily have foreknowledge of all future events and that the future is open. Many evangelicals believe Open Theism is ...
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Unbelievable? From Christian to Jewish to atheist – Luke Griffiss-Williams & Richard Harvey
Luke Griffiss-Williams has an interesting faith journey. Having been an evangelical Christian, doubts about the deity of Jesus led him to convert to Judaism. But further doubts about the historicity of the Old Testament led him to become an atheist. Richard Harvey, senior researcher with Jews ...
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Unbelievable? John Lennox Premier Lecture - Going Against the Flow
Mathematician and Christian thinker John Lennox gave the Premier Lecture for the 20th Anniversary of the Radio station on June 10th. Drawing on his new book ‘Against the Flow’, Lennox draws lessons from the book of Daniel for the church today. Get the MP3 For more ...
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Unbelievable? Have we misread the Adam and Eve story? John Walton vs Stephen Lloyd
John Walton, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois, has authored the book The Lost World of Adam and Eve. He argues that Adam and Eve were intended as archetypes for humankind, and the story is not mean to be taken as an account of ...
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Unbelievable? Is Genocide a Skeleton in God's closet?
Joshua Ryan Butler, author of ‘The Skeletons in God’s Closet’ discusses hell, judgement and holy war with Jeff Cook. They debate whether Old Testament warfare passages constitute divinely mandated genocide. Get the MP3 For Joshua Butler: http://joshuaryanbutler.com For Jeff Cook: http://everythingnew.org/ For more faith debates ...
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Unbelievable? Did Isaiah prophesy a Virgin birth? Alistair McKitterick & Robert Stovold
We hear it every year at Christmas in in our services. Matthew Chapter 1, quoting the prophet Isaiah - “look the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel”. Critics say there’s a problem: that the Isaiah passage is not ...
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Unbelievable? Brian McLaren & Andrew Wilson debate Jesus and the Bible
Emerging Church leader Brian McLaren and evangelical leader Andrew Wilson debate whether we need to rethink scripture in a podcast special hosted by Justin. The two debates examine whether we’ve made an idol of the Bible and the way that Jesus read scripture. They cover issues ...
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Unbelievable? Has defending scripture made us unable to read it? Peter Enns & David Instone-Brewer
Bible scholar Peter Enns was fired from his position at Westminster Theological Seminary after his views on scripture were deemed to be too liberal. He has continued to question evangelical views of scripture in his book ‘The Bible Tells Me So: Why defending Scripture has made ...
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Paradoxology - Krish Kandiah & Tony Smollet
Krish Kandiah is a speaker and author passionate about church mission. His latest book is Paradoxology: Why Christianity was Never Meant to be Simple. He aims to show why some of the paradoxes of Christian faith can be a path to ...
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Does the Bible support modern science? Jeff Zweerink & Steve Jones
Jeff Zweerink is a Christian Physicist with Reasons To Believe and will be speaking at this year’s Unbelievable? the Conference www.premier.org.uk/reasonablefaith Steve Jones is a Emeritus Professor of genetics at UCL and author of ‘The Serpent’s Promise: The Bible retold as ...