Both Bible believing Christians and critics of the Bible make the same blunder when attempting to make sense of the pieces of ancient literature now called the Bible. The Bible may be sacred literature for Christians but literature nonetheless and so must be read, basically, as one would read any piece of literature responsibly (ancient or modern)….
Tag: Rev. Clinton Chisholm
Reading Ancient Texts Responsibly
For Drs. Ethon Lowe, Michael Abrahams and others Though many (learned and unlearned folk) seem not be aware of it, there is an academic version of the biblical “believe not every spirit…” It is “double-check all sources.” I ‘push up’ myself in the company of renowned scholars and join Egyptologist William Dever in asking “How is…
Same-Sex Union/Marriage: Radical Thoughts
People who love and care for one another should be free to show that care in deeply practical ways. I maintain the belief that love protects the beloved through the law as far as possible. No society however well-policed can do much about people’s private relationships and behavior in relative privacy. While it is true…
Moral vs. Legal authority
Mr. Errol Greene is my respected Baptist brother. I registered denominational pride as I watched him on TV news last night (July 21, 2019) addressing a Lay Magistrates’ gathering and raising questions on the moral authority of police persons to arrest citizens for breaches of the law that said police persons are guilty of. Examples…
Hope: Fundamental but Fragile
Whether it is Peter Bunting or Peter Philips re the leadership of their political party or anyone of us in our daily lives, all humans are creatures of hope. But what really is hope? In a nutshell, hope is confident assurance about the ‘not yet’. Be that ‘not yet’ near (later today) or far (September or when…
THE LORD’S PRAYER and THE POPE
So right after this Jamaican mother taught her twins the Lord’s Prayer, her son queried: “Mom, why ask for daily bread; why not ask for a whole year’s supply?” Before his mother opened her mouth, his sister chimed in: “So that it might be fresh, Giovanni!” The Lord’s Prayer, which both of us learnt when…