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Bible study

-Faith & Works: Paul vs. James

One of the thorniest textual problems any Christian can face is the apparent contradiction between Paul and James. Is justification by faith, as Paul claims, or by works, as James seems to say? This problem actually has a very simple solution. [...]

May 23, 2008

-Bad Arguments Against Calvinism

We've been talking about the biblical question of predestination lately--not strict determinism, which mechanistically fixes every detail of our lives, but rather the view that God has personally chosen (predestined) those who would believe in Christ for salvation. [...]

May 22, 2008

-Paul, Romans and Homosexuality

To most readers, the first chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans contains the Bible's clearest condemnation of same-sex relations--both male and female. Recent scholarship, though, reads the same text and finds just the opposite--that homosexuality is innate and therefore normal, moral, and biblical. [...]

May 21, 2008

-Reflections on Hinduism

The problem with Hinduism, if it's true, is that our environment is an illusion. It's Maya. It's not really there. So how can we get true information from something that doesn't really exist? [...]

May 19, 2008