God is Immoral
The majority of Christians appear dishonest with themselves (and others) about the immorality of the biblical God, skipping over problematic texts claimed to be equally inspired.
The majority of Christians appear dishonest with themselves (and others) about the immorality of the biblical God, skipping over problematic texts claimed to be equally inspired.
The NET version is no replacement for careful attention to the original biblical languages and deep research into the cultural and historical background behind our received scriptures. The danger is that some people think it is.
It is a good time to revisit a helpful metaphor: The Bible is the Church’s Photo Album.
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I am very grateful to Dr Katie Marcar. At the recent Anglo-Catholic Hui, she presented a Bible study and introduced The Art of Reading Scripture (I have ordered the book). A dozen eminent scholars formed The Scripture Project and from that developed nine theses on interpreting biblical texts: 1. Scripture truthfully tells the story of
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I recently watched the above video at a service. It is, as you can see, from Holy Moly – I hope it whets your appetite to look out for more of them. Here are a few more: More information at SparkHouse If you appreciated this post, do remember to like the liturgy facebook page, use
I have previously written about the Bible in the Life of the Church project which was commissioned by the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) at its meeting in Jamaica in May 2009. Now a commenter has pointed us to the publication of its Phase 1 report and material leading into Phase 2. There is a lot
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Two years ago I made a list of wonderful free online Bible resources (click here). Episcopal cafe has pointed to another list: Online Bibles Bible.org: Get access to the NET Bible from this page. You can also get some helpful tools for study, including pop-verses on the page. Join communities and get help finding Bible
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Here is a list of resources to understand the Bible better. These scriptural resources are free and online. This site provides similar lists for lectionary resources, for music resources and so on, and invites you to add so that together we are sharing good resources we find. So if you know a similar biblical resource,
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