Everyone – I just saw this link from the Bible Project in my Twitter feed. It’s a one-stop page / collection of the videos in their spiritual beings series. I was a consultant on the scripts for these videos. It’s pretty convenient, given the amount...
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A (Useless?) Plea to Stop the Madness
Had some short chat time with Joel Richardson today and yesterday. Joel sent me a brief audio link to some comments of Hugh Ross that a good number of people who promote the flat earth idea are actually atheists posing at Christians to make the faith look stupid...
Heavenly Worship in Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Gnostic Sects: Part 5
This is the 5th and final post in a series by guest blogger, Stephen Huebscher ——- This is the final post in this series, and I draw a number of conclusions here. At the end, I list all the works that I referenced in this series, in case I missed one...
More Flat Earth Debunking from the PseudoAstronomy Podcast
Stuart Robbins has added to the work he’s already done on his podcast. Stuart takes us through more about how young earth creationists also oppose the flat earth nonsense. Anyone who has listened to Stuart before knows he’s not a YEC or creationist. His...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 129: ETS-SBL Interviews with Scholars – Part 2
During the recent annual meetings for biblical studies scholars held in San Antonio, Dr. Heiser interviewed a number of scholars about their recent work. In Part 2 of those interviews, we meet Dr. Andy Naselli (New Testament professor at Bethlehem College and...
Exposing Modern Flat Earth Belief – Part 2 of the Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast Series
I blogged a short time ago about Stuart Robbins’ podcast series on modern flat earth belief. Stuart is a PhD in geology whose dissertation was on the geology of Mars. His podcast is, as its title suggests, about debunking nonsensical beliefs tied to astronomical...
Modern Flat Earth Theory Exposed, Part I
Back in February I caused a minor brouhaha (have to love that word) when I blogged, “Christians Who Believe the Earth is Really Flat — Does It Get Any Dumber Than This?” I’m a Christian and biblical scholar who has a grasp of the fact that ancient...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 108 – Q & A # 15
The episode is now live. Timestamps for Questions The timestamps are approximated based on the transcript's natural pacing. [02:50] – Genesis 2–3 and Conditional Mortality: Does humanity’s conditional immortality affect future judgment? What about annihilation vs....
Cool Motion-Animation Video of Ancient Israelite Cosmology
Thanks to Shaun Swanson for his effort in producing this video, and to Steve McHenry for the voiceover. This is the sort of thing Miqlat (my non-profit)[1. See this long post, about a third of the way down, for the Miqlat vision.] will be able to produce with...
Flat Earth Follow-Up
Just a quick note. While it’s depressing to see in real time that people who name the name of Christ believe in non-truth, thereby shaming the gospel, I’m going to keep the comments open on that post of a couple days ago (now at 118 comments), with the...
Christians Who Believe the Earth is Really Flat — Does It Get Any Dumber Than This?
I’m almost afraid to ask the question. It seems whenever I do, something comes along to produce an affirmative answer. Lately I’ve been seeing things on Facebook (or have had those who follow my work sending me items) that ask if I believe the earth is...
Naked Bible 85: Q&A 9
Our 9th Question and Answer episode! Also find out what topics are next for the podcast. Harvey book on the term Jew: Graham Harvey, The True Israel: Uses of the Names Jew, Hebrew, and Israel in Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Literature (Brill, 2001) Transcript 85...
Important Divine Council Article
I thought I’d share an article that I consider one of the best I’ve ever read for understanding the divine council in biblical theology. It’s a book chapter. I’ve converted it to PDF from my digital edition of book (there’s no copyright...
Naked Bible 71: Q&A 7
Our 7th Question and Answer episode! Transcript 71 QA7 Timestamps & Questions Timestamp Question Summary 00:00–02:00 Intro by Trey Stricklin — housekeeping, podcast updates 02:00–06:38 Can you explain more about the “two Yahwehs” idea in light of Deuteronomy...
Interpreting Genesis 1: Who’s the Literalist Now?
I appreciated this post from James McGrath, whose short essay was stimulated by Robin Parry’s post, to whom James directs his readers. The issue is how “literal creationists” are actually only selective literalists (or, as I would call them,...