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Richard Dawkins, Knowledge, and Faith

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Proving God’s Existence Absolutely: The Atheists vs. Christians Debates Often Yield Rotten Fruit

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Sir Toby Redivivus?

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Jesus is not God Almighty

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Is Jesus Even Relevant?

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The Irony of Christian Syncretism

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For some reason Open Source Theology has recently been subjected to sustained attacks of comment spam. For the time being I have stopped the automatic posting of comments to the site. I will try to approve genuine comments as quickly as possible, but there will be a regrettable lag. Some regular contributors will find that they can still post directly, and I will endeavour to add to this approved list over time.

The Irony of Christian Syncretism

Many Christians argue that syncretism is a problem for believers today.  Blending Christian and non-Christian practices is a bad move.  For instance, Denny Burk recently argued that Christians should not observe Ramadan with Muslims and hecalled out Richard Mouw and Brian McLaren for doing so.

The Voice- an emergent Bible translation?

The Voice”, a new translation of the New Testament, was published in 2008, but I only recently became aware of it through some scathing reviews such as this from Chris Rosebrough at Extreme Theology:

I recently purchased a copy of this fresh “dynamic translation” of Bible and spent some time doing comparative work with key passages of the New Testament from The Voice, The ESV and the Greek text. Sadly I must report that this new Emergent “translation” is so far off the mark that I think one could reasonably argue that by producing their own distorted version of the Bible the Emergent church has crossed the line from being a ‘movement’ to actually becoming a cult.”

Revelation Recontextualised

Not just because I get quoted on Dave Wainscott’s blog (Gustavo Martin pointed it out to me - in connection with his article on Register Analysis in Mark 13 ), but because there is also a great example of how the narrative/historical can be applied to contemporary belief and practice, I offer the following link to Rob Bell on Revelation, also on Dave Wainscott’s blog.