There’s a lengthy comment from a reader on my Daniel 2 post. Here’s my point-by-point response to his allegations (his comment in red): Unfortunately, Daniel is not quite as ancient as you are led to believe. It was one of the manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls and only dates back to c. 167… Continue reading Answering Nonsense About Daniel 2
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Did Jesus Use the Greek Version of the Bible?
Kerath25, in response to my post this morning, asked: I’d heard that there is some evidence that Jesus Himself used the Septuagint. On a simple search, most of the results that I’d come across were people seeking to refute this theory, and I didn’t find any convincing evidence to support the theory that Jesus used… Continue reading Did Jesus Use the Greek Version of the Bible?
Why Doesn’t John’s Gospel Mention the Institution of the Eucharist?
I’ve wondered in the past why John’s Gospel doesn’t include the Institution of the Eucharist. John’s Gospel is heavily Eucharistic, and notes that Jesus’ Eucharistic discourse occurs at the time of the Passover (John 6:4), a year before the Institution itself. And when he gets to the Last Supper, the point at which the Synoptic… Continue reading Why Doesn’t John’s Gospel Mention the Institution of the Eucharist?
Msgr. William J. Awalt on the Eucharist
I was reading about Judge Robert Bork’s conversion to Catholicism, and he said: After I wrote Slouching Toward Gomorrah the priest at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., Msgr. William Awalt, told me that my views on matters seemed to be very close to those of the Catholic views, which was true. Not being… Continue reading Msgr. William J. Awalt on the Eucharist
St. Paul’s Vision of the Law as a Teaching Slave
Galatians 3 is one of St. Paul’s finest expositions of the relationship between Christianity and the Mosaic Law. The chapter is part of an epistle written in opposition to a camp of early Christians in Galatia known as Judaizers, who held that Christian salvation required adherence to the entire Mosaic Law. In response to this,… Continue reading St. Paul’s Vision of the Law as a Teaching Slave
What We Can Learn from the Sacrifice of Isaac
This is adapted from a final I turned in yesterday which examined the difference between obeying the letter and spirit of the law in a number of contexts. The term “telos” means “purpose or end,” so when I refer to the “teleological role of the law,” I’m referring to the function which the law has.… Continue reading What We Can Learn from the Sacrifice of Isaac
Being Skeptical About the Skeptics
So this is pretty cool. Biblical skeptics have long argued that the Bible can’t be older than the 6th century B.C. because that’s when Hebrew was first written down. If true, this would mean that much of the Bible was either (a) originally oral history, or (b) falsified, and made to seem older than it… Continue reading Being Skeptical About the Skeptics
Did the Protestant Bible Exist Before the Reformation?
I. The Challenge: Find an Early Church Protestant Bible. Finding an Early Church Father who agrees 100% with Protestantism is an unfair burden. After all, there are probably some Fathers who disagree with things now defined in Catholicism if you read their writings carefully enough. But here’s a burden which should be considered fair: find… Continue reading Did the Protestant Bible Exist Before the Reformation?
Was the Canon Politically Motivated?
On a different note, a friend asks: Also, some people told me that the Bible is B.S. because at the Council of Nicea, church leaders selected canon for political motives. Also, someone told me that an entire book of the new testament is so inconsistent with the style of the other books that religious scholars… Continue reading Was the Canon Politically Motivated?