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Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Bible

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0004, 20th April, 2011
It was John Hobbins’ posts that first made me aware of the idea of functional canonicity. That is, regardless of what a group says is their canon, more practically important is what they use as canonical. In this sense, we could say that the Apostles’ Creed is canonical for most Christians. We could say that [...]
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a post on the historical jesus . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2125, 24th February, 2010
can be found here.  Its central thesis is that those who reject the gospels as historical sources do so based on bad assumptions. Related Posts:Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Biblepurchase 1build your own jesus?The canon
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build your own jesus?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1743, 28th December, 2009
There are, in a variety of places, little “Build a Bear” enterprises. They work like this: You go to a vender of build-a-bears, and the vender shows you an assortment of bear parts, which you are then free to put together into your own bear, and you pay the vender for this. That’s right. The [...]
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The canon

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2359, 6th December, 2009
If we agree that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead, and that the Bible is the Word of God, we then come to another question: what is the Bible? In the last post, I defined the Bible as the Old Testament (Tanakh) and the New Testament. If these books are to govern our lives, [...]
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