Mar 09 2010

Pray for IMonk: Michael Spencer

Category: Other PostsPolycarp @ 8:50 pm

Friends, please keep Michael Spencer and his family in your prayers.

This is the beginning of a message from his wife,

It is with a heavy heart that I bring my latest update on Michael. We have learned that his cancer is too advanced and too aggressive to expect any sort of remission. Our oncologist estimates that with continued treatment Michael most likely has somewhere between six months and a year to live. This is not really a surprise to us, though it is certainly horrible news. From the very beginning, both of us have suspected that this would prove to be an extremely bad situation. I don’t know why; perhaps God was preparing us for the worst all along by giving us that intuition.

Michael Spencer Update, 3/9/2010 | internetmonk.com.

If you can donate, please do so (the link is on their website). And you know what, please pre-order his book.


Mar 09 2010

Catholic King of Spain Signs Abortion Bill into Law

Category: AbortionPolycarp @ 6:59 pm

Well, now what? Will he be excommunicated?

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Mar 09 2010

Oklahoma Conservatives want Government out of Marriage

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 3:59 pm

Republican members proposed three pieces of legislation imposing new regulations on marriage and divorce in Oklahoma. Two of the measures were defeated, but another — requiring counseling for those planning to wed, and therapy sessions for couples considering divorce — is awaiting action.

The issue has produced sharp clashes among conservative colleagues who normally find themselves in agreement. The debates have featured charges of hypocrisy and of betraying Republican principles against government intrusion into private lives.

“How far do I want government to come into my home and your home about private personal matters?” asked Rep. Leslie Osborn, a Republican from Tuttle, in a debate. She referred to state government as a “huge monster.”

Read the rest here:

The Associated Press: Okla. conservatives debate divorce legislation.

HT who blogs here.

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Mar 09 2010

Scott McKnight Answers Glenn Beck

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 3:59 pm
Maybe, just maybe Glenn Beck has said something this time which will finally cause him to lose a little credibility. Scott McKnight answers him, biblically:
I find these sorts of statements so far from an awareness of Jesus (not to mention John the Baptist), so I post here the first words of Jesus in public preaching. This passage can’t be read without thinking Jesus was here to bring justice. After the jump, I’ve got John’s words, which have to be seen as some form of voluntary economic sharing as a form of creating justice.

Read the answers here: Hey, Glenn Beck, Listen to Jesus – Jesus Creed.

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Mar 09 2010

Undepraved – Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work

Category: Other PostsPolycarp @ 3:59 pm

There is really a lot of good news in the world today, my friends, and we really should try to highlight that instead of focusing in on the bad as if to try to prove some silly theological point made previously by people who are long dead and frankly, by now, know better. ‘Undepraved’ ain’t the right word, granted, but you know what I mean -

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Mar 09 2010

Richard T. Hughes: Where are you at, Christian?

Category: Religion and PoliticsPolycarp @ 1:42 pm

If you remember, a while ago I was able to review Hughes’ newest book and interview him. He has taken to asking a very serious question. For those who believe that the bible is to be taken with reverence and often times very literal, where are you at on social and economic justice?

Want to try your hand at solving a riddle with life-or-death implications for people all over the world? Why do so many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians–people who clearly honor the Bible–so often disregard two requirements that are central to the biblical text and central to the teachings of Jesus: peacemaking and justice for the poor? This is hardly an academic question. With over 25% of the total American population fundamentalist and evangelical Christians could make a vast difference in the lives of millions around the world if more of them took the Bible’s teachings on these two points more seriously.

Read the rest here. Good luck.

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Mar 09 2010

Gipp, Irenaeus, and The Septuagint

Category: KJV, SeptuagintPolycarp @ 11:59 am

Jason is taking on the argument made by many KJVO’ers, that the Greek Old Testament didn’t really exist:

When one reads King James Version Only arguments, one of the issues that arises is that of the New Testament quotation of the Septuagint (LXX).

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Gipp, Irenaeus, and The Septuagint « King James Only?.

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Mar 09 2010

Jewish Views of Gehenna/Gehinnom

Category: TheologyPolycarp @ 11:59 am

I am a proponent of trying to understand, at the very least, the Gospels in light of their Jewishness. When Christ mentions Gehenna, He always does so in parabolic or hyperbolic language. This is not make the statements contained therein untrue, but it does tend to prevent the language from being taken literally, at times. Discernment is key in trying to look at these issues.

In that regard, I want to look at the Jewish Gehenna at or near the time of Christ and how it developed.

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Mar 09 2010

The King James Version has made the Greek Obsolete

Category: KJVPolycarp @ 11:59 am

In this post, I just found out that a KJVO Bible college has just made it public that they will not be teaching Greek in preparing men for ministry because their preserved KJV Bible for the English speaking people makes Greek obsolete. This is the official statement of Grace Baptist College in Gaylord Michigan. (from here)

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Mar 09 2010

The Great Lies of KJVO

Category: KJVPolycarp @ 11:59 am

Some of the greatest lies told by the KJVO movement, promulgated by Ruckman and Riplinger, are those about Westcott and Hort. For example, this blogger has bought hook, line, and sinker what the KJVO camp is putting out. Note that he, without any real evidence, places everyone who reads anything but the KJV (please, pick a year and a publisher) into the camp of the damned:

If you are reading one of these versions, it is a compilation of the work of Satan, Demons, drunks, necromancers, channelers, ghost followers, Nazi staff members, Lucifer worshipers, Plato, Origin, Philo, and many other NEW AGE (demon inspired) thinkers who want nothing more than to bring in a One World Government under a New World Order, with the Anti-Christ as the ruler of the world, and Marxism as the world political system. What angers me the most is that supposedly God fearing ministers of the Gospel have, like the Pied Piper, led their congregations by a passive attitude that will open up the door to the religion of the Anti-Christ one day.

He goes on to quote Riplinger who quotes Westcott and Hort. Like most KJVO’ers, she (who I find an odd sort to be followed by fundamentalists who insist that women cannot teach and divorce is not an option. Yeah, check her marriage count) takes quotes out-of-place and contextualizes them according to her purpose. So, read the blog above and then check out the numerous sites, such as this one, which gives you the full quotes, not just a bit and a piece here or there.

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