It continues to irritate and concern me when I hear or read the sloppy arguments that critics level at the Church. Take the recent Gleaner Editors Forum (Jamaica) as reported in the Sunday Gleaner of April 24, 2016. The report opened thus “Faced with charges that the moral decay in society and the level of…
Belief, Knowledge and Behaviour
All atheists, whether of the village variety or their more educated colleagues, need to appreciate the link between belief and knowledge. In fact this also applies to all theists of whatever species, especially Pastors who dialogue in the public square. All knowledge is belief but not every belief qualifies as knowledge. As two of my…
Dying and Rising What Again?
In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal of the ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis. (see my book Revelations on Ras Tafari, 2008, 81-87). Significantly, I invited two lecturers from the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies to respond live to the lecture right…
Fidelity & Oneness in Marriage
Heb. 13 4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. Gen. 2 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. If…
Slavery in the Bible
Mr. Peter Wickham (of Barbados) is a very educated man but he and even most Christians need to understand how to read an ancient text from a different cultural milieu to ours. I illustrate the need with Mr. Wickham’s (mis)reading of the issue of slavery in the Bible in his column in the Barbados Nation…
Jesus’ Death & Resurrection: What Days?
Preamble: Groups like the Church of God International, the Church of God (7th day) and The Assembly of Yahweh hold that the crucifixion was on Wednesday and the resurrection on Saturday.[1] Many in the Caribbean have no doubt been exposed to Herbert W. Armstrong’s booklet; The Resurrection Was Not On Sunday, which argues this view….