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To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo — Two Christian Approaches to Old Testament Law
“You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.” — Leviticus 19:28 (ESV) In light of Leviticus 19:28, is it forbidden for a Christian to have a tattoo? How we answer this question depends on how we understand our relationship to the laws of the [...]
Thoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”
Around 2 a.m. a month ago, in a smoke-filled hookah bar in Orlando, Florida, I found myself engaged in a conversation about religion and politics with a man who spent his career at the intersection between the two (I count his brief stint as a bar-tender as religious/political work in addition to his more overtly [...]
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On the Recent Storm of Controversy over Voting.
In light of Rod’s most recent comment, I’m done having this conversation with him. (This does not, by the way, mean that I’m no longer willing to talk about the subjects that have been brought up with others, especially Joel Watts and Christian of Homebrewed Theology, both of whom I intend to respond to shortly.) [...]
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Conspiracy theories are like termites.
Say not, A conspiracy! about all that these people call a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not be afraid. It is the LORD of Hosts whom you shall sanctify: let him be your fear; let him be your dread. — Isaiah 8 Pursuing them, even if they turn out to be true, [...]
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didache tuesday
One important document for understanding the early church is the Didache, and, to move closer to a full complement of weekly posts, we begin a sixteen-week series on the Didache. The Didache, also called The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is a work which was written perhaps as early as 60 AD, and widely circulated [...]
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I’m looking for experimental subjects
I’m in the early stages of reading through David Chilton’s Paradise Restored. If it lives up to my high expectations, I will follow by reading his book Days of Vengeance. They are about eschatology, and incidentally touch on a wide variety of other subjects. Chilton claims that rapture-based eschatologies and other eschatologies that conclude things [...]
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correction
I’d like to make a correction — in a previous post, I used language that could be taken to indicate that Gary North is a Sabbatarian, as I thought he was at the time I wrote the post. I was mistaken. His fiery essay ‘The Economics of Sabbath-Keeping” shows that he is far from being [...]
Christian Reconstructionism and the Original Languages