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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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Was creationism recently invented?
Christianity always has been and always must be influenced to some extent by traditionalism–the goal of preserving the traditions handed down from the past. Even if the excessive traditionalism which attaches far too much significance to human development is drastically cut back and the Bible is (as it rightly should be) considered the final standard [...]
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whiston’s hypothesis on the testimonium of josephus
Lately I’ve been having a bit of back-and-forth discussion with atheist author Paul Tobin, over a post I wrote on Josephus. One of the great difficulties of online communication (indeed with any communication) is making sure we’re all on the same page. And so I’m reprinting Whiston’s hypothesis about Origen’s Contra Celsus comment about the [...]
David Chilton’s “Paradise Restored” — A Review