There is a great exchange on KiwiBlog in the comments section here where Madeleine takes to task some of the other commenters on biblical interpretation. Her ability to render the arguments to stupidity with ease and a nice dose of dry humour thrown in is very amusing and worth a look. She has a gift. […]
Entries from March 3rd, 2009
Madeleine Playing in the Sandpit
March 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hermeneutics · Humour
An Eye for an Eye and Turning the Other Cheek
March 3rd, 2009 11 Comments
In The Autonomy of Ethics David Brink complains that “tradition and scripture may speak but in conflicting ways”;[1] in a endnote he cites a single example, Inconsistency is at stake, for example, when we juxtapose the Old Testament doctrine of an “eye for an eye” (Exodus 21:23, 24; Leviticus 24:19, 20; and Deuteronomy 19:21) and […]
Tags: David Brink · David Daube · eye for an eye · Lex Talionis · turn the other cheek
Christian Blog Rankings Feb 09 – HalfDone
March 2nd, 2009 6 Comments
Here are the top 10 NZ Christian blogs based on HalfDone’s NZ blog stats for February; these stats are used in the calculations for the MandM top 10 NZ Christian Blog rankings for February 09: NZ Conservative 10 Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later (HalfDone) 12 MandM 26 Keeping Stock 28 Samuel Dennis 30 The […]
The Name Game
March 1st, 2009 1 Comment
It’s meme time (again). This time it’s a name game – it’s kinda fun. 1. YOUR REAL NAME: Madeleine Flannagan 2. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s middle name and the name of the person who tagged you) Caroline Scalia 3. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad) Dennis Mark 4. STAR WARS NAME: […]
Tags: Meme
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
