Dr Aubrey de Grey, co-founder of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Foundation (SENS), thinks we are if scientists can find a cure for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and cancer.
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Oct 22 2009
Are we approaching a new age of immortality?
Oct 19 2009
Jose Saramago – Bible a “handbook of bad morals”
Speaking at the launch of his new book “Cain”, Jose Saramago, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, said society would probably be better off without the Bible.
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Oct 18 2009
Explicit Genesis upsets Christians
A SEXUALLY explicit illustrated Book of Genesis by the controversial artist, Robert Crumb, which features biblical characters having intercourse and ”gratuitous” depictions of violence, has been condemned by religious groups. Continue Reading
Oct 01 2009
Chrysostom “On The Obscurity Of The Old Testament”
Yet, Chrysostom also allows for the human element in the development of the text. Interestingly, he seems to assume that inspiration occurs as God inspires the writer, though, not necessarily listener. Thus, whereas the writer cannot falter, the hearer surely can. This is illustrated in his “On the Obscurity of the Old Testament” where he starts by exploring the Pauline statement concerning King Melchizedek: “What I have to say to you is lengthy and difficult to interpret because you are hard of hearing” (Heb. 5.11). Chrysostom stresses the latter half of the sentence maintaining that “it was not the nature of the text but the inexperience of the listeners that made difficult what was not difficult” (9).
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Chyrsostom, by the way, is by far one of my favorites from that time period.
Sep 12 2009
Top 10 worst Bible passages (And 2 other Top 10 Lists)
You can read the rest of the article below. Do we really need to explain this, or the difference between the Law (OT) and Grace (NT)?
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Aug 15 2009
Discussion: Lynch Pins of the Old Testament
Biblical Minimalism, as I understand it, essentially denies the historical value of the Old Testament. I’ve been thinking – not always a good thing – but what if the biblical minimalists are right on some level? (I do not hold their views) Is there a stopping point to biblical minimalism.
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Aug 03 2009
Canon within a Canon (Meme, anyone?)
Last week, John Anderson wrote about his canon within a canon. He writes,
Brevard Childs has argued that the process of canonization allowed for a certain ‘leveling,’ a general equality as it concerns the various books of the Bible. Obadiah is just as authoritative as the gospel of Matthew, and Genesis just as seminal as Philemon. While I do think there is great merit in such a view–quite a Jewish view, no less, as the Jewish Midrashim affirm just such an equality, using one text to interpret another–none of us is an entirely disinterested interpreter. We all have our own experiences, ideologies, and idiosyncracies that inform our reading of texts. And because of this, the canonical ‘leveling’ is in a way distorted.
Jul 30 2009
Time with Nehemiah – Subterfuge and Completion
Nehemiah was fresh off the conflict from within the City, now he had to face the conflict from without. As the last bricks were being laid, the enemies round about Jerusalem began to conspire to create problems. All work must be stopped for the good of the enemy!
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