MandM have officially joined the ranks of New Zealand blogs with print columns; Kiwiblog’s David Farrar writes for the NBR, Cactus Kate writes for The Dominion Post and now MandM write for Investigate Magazine – you can now get your MandM fix both online and at your magazine stand! Pick up this month’s edition of […]
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Contra Mundum: A New Column in Investigate Magazine
August 20th, 2009 8 Comments
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Sunday Study: 666 The Number of the Beast
August 17th, 2009 7 Comments
On 29 March 1982 Iron Maiden released the album The Number of the Beast; this album’s self-titled song was to become one of the most influential heavy metal songs of all time and stirred up a firestorm of controversy. Apparently Iron Maiden’s bassist, Steve Harris, had been up late one night watching Damian: Omen II, […]
Tags: 616 · 666 · Iron Maiden · Nero · Number of the Beast · Sunday Study
Sunday Study: The Mosaic Covenant as a Vassal Treaty
August 9th, 2009 Comments Off on Sunday Study: The Mosaic Covenant as a Vassal Treaty
The central event in the Old Testament is the enactment of the Mosaic Covenant. God and Israel (the descendants of Jacob, the grandson of Abraham) entered into a covenant during the time of Moses where Israel promised to worship God and obey his laws and God promised to give them land and protection. The covenant […]
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Sunday Study
August 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on Sunday Study
There will be no Sunday Study this week as the past week has been taken up with preparing for the memorial service on Waiheke Island, the Faith and Science conference I spoke at yesterday and two other deadlines for written work due Friday; and on top of all that, our family car blew its head […]
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Sunday Study: Abraham and Isaac – Did God Command the Killing of an Innocent?
July 26th, 2009 17 Comments
Perhaps the most infamous passage in the Hebrew scriptures occurs in Genesis 22:2, Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” Of course, as anyone who […]
Tags: Abraham · Abram · Ethics · Genesis · Isaac · John Hare · Kant · Kenneth Kitchen · Killing Innocents · Louise Anthony · Old Testament Ethics · Philip Quinn · Robert Adams · Selection · Stephen Evans · Sunday Study
Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part II
July 19th, 2009 10 Comments
This post is the second in my series on Christ’s exposition of the 6th Commandment, the prohibition on homicide, contained in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5: 21-26. In Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part I, I looked at what The Torah taught about homicide, in this post I will […]
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Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part I
July 12th, 2009 Comments Off on Sunday Study: Christ on The Prohibition on Homicide Part I
This morning I preached a sermon at Riverhead Presbyterian Church on Christ’s exposition of the 6th Commandment, the prohibition on homicide, contained in the Sermon on the Mount. This Sunday Study series is essentially a transcript of today’s sermon. Christ states, You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not […]
Tags: Homicide · Riverhead Presbyterian Church · Sermon on the Mount · Sunday Study
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.
