Starting us off our last edition of the weekly news is a question asked by this blogger on the common hertiage of Abraham among the three Abrahamic religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Personally, Islam doesn’t count since Judaism prophesied Christianity where as Islam is a false religion of imagination.
WB Moore has a great post on the color of the robe of Christ.
This blogger has a great post on the lyrics in Christian music.
The Christian Carnival is up.
Awilum tells us
If you are in the Louisville area you’ll want to be sure to check out a panel discussion at Southern Seminary entitled: Christology in the Old Testament: A panel discussion of how and to what extent we should see Christ in the Old Testament. The panel includes Tom Schreiner (New Testament prof), Duane Garrett and Peter Gentry (Old Testament profs), and Jim Hamilton (Biblical Theology prof). It should be a very fascinating discussion.
Richard at Better Bible Blog gives a bit on the Lord’s Prayer.
Jim West:
“Tribals in Jharkhand are up in arms against a recent Kuduk translation of the Bible, which exhorts people to destroy trees and places where they worship. The Bible Society of India has apologised for the translation and has promised to withdraw copies from the market.The Kendriya Sarna Samittee (KSS), an organisation of tribals, has announced it will burn the copies translated into Kuduk – one of the local tribal languages – if they are not withdrawn.”
Source: Thaindian News
The Apologetics Study Bible website is up with five flash movies for curriculum that can be watched or downloaded from the site for Sunday School and small groups and more coming.
Byron updates on his reading of the Qu’ran.
Just click here.
In this segment of the Issues, Etc. radio program Dr. Rod Rosenbladt of the White Horse Inn is discussing Sola Fide. In the course of the program he is given the opportunity to respond to Rick Warren’s theology. During his response Rosenbladt blasts Warren’s false doctrine and calls Rick Warren a “Southern-Baptist Roman Catholic”.
Phorios at EP has a post on the Catholic and Orthodox ‘understanding’ of nature vs. person.
Halden as couple of great posts on the Perichoretic Church. Here, here, and here.
Here is the link to the free audio file from the Christology in the Old Testament panel discussion at SBTS. It is very much worth a listen.
GE, which developed the 4D ultrasound imaging technology, has a website of images that follow the timeline of the unborn’s development from six weeks to birth.
Vern Poythress has a new article in World Magazine on “Feeling Guilty?” He says,
The sad thing here is that this flight from guilt means not only a life of delusion, but a life of spiritual misery. If you are guilty, you are alienated from God, and you flee from Him. Then you are lonely at a fundamental level, because only God understands you deeply and can supply the deep fellowship that you yearn for. Cut off from God, your life is meaningless, because meaning flows from God. In addition, you lose capacity genuinely to befriend other people, because you can’t admit your guilt to them. Instead of loving others, you are caught up with maintaining your own self-esteem—your own pride. You are swirling in a downward spiral toward death.
Jim Hamilton:
That was the topic of discussion yesterday. It was my privilege to participate in a panel discussion here at SBTS, and the audio file is here (HT: Awilum).
My views have been shaped by the preaching, teaching, and writings of Drs. Thomas R. Schreiner, John Sailhamer, T. Desmond Alexander, Stephen G. Dempster, E. Earle Ellis, and N. T. Wright, among others.
Here are my attemps to articulate my views that have found their way into print:
“The Virgin Will Conceive: Typological Fulfillment in Matthew 1:18-23,” in Built upon the Rock: Studies in the Gospel of Matthew, ed. John Nolland and Dan Gurtner, 228-47. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008 (for the presentation version, click the cover of the book on the right side of the page).
“The Seed of the Woman and the Blessing of Abraham,” Tyndale Bulletin 58.2 (2007), 253-73.
“The Messianic Music of the Song of Songs: A Non-Allegorical Interpretation,” Westminster Theological Journal 68 (2006) 331-45.
“The Skull Crushing Seed of the Woman: Inner-Biblical Interpretation of Genesis 3:15,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 10.2 (2006), 30-54.
From Gay Christian Movement Watch:
But that’s not the real story. The real story is the spineless, jellyfish response of the Gospel Music Association when asked about [former Christian singer Ray] Boltz’s public declaration of homosexuality.
According to OneNewsNow, when asked about Boltz’s homosexuality, The Gospel Music Association – the group which gives out the Dove Awards – told the [Washington] Blade, “We do not comment on the lifestyle choices of people in our community.” The GMA (John Styll, president pictured left) even denied that it is a religious organization!
MGVH has an interesting post on the subject of the best English translation.
I like to have a sense of what is going on in the underlying Greek/Hebrew, but whereas more literal may be more helpful for study, a somewhat more dynamic translation is better for reading. For a base text, I want something in the middle. I can also add that inclusive language awareness is important for me. Yes, it can cause all sorts of awkward grammatical gymnastics, and I dislike the switches from singulars to generic plurals, but for a general purpose translation that would be read in church, I think inclusive language is important. (read more)
Rick at the Lamp shines the way on Christians and Politics.
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