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Jesus Christ is the revelation of the Word of God in human form, and the entire Bible (in the words of Karl Barth) is a human witness to Jesus Christ who is the very Word of God. Many Christians wrongly identify the Bible as the Word of God, but the […]
Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Word of God in Threefold Form (August 20, 2018)
Updated: May 15th, 2019
Is the Bible the Word of God? Karl Barth answered No! because "the Bible is not in itself and as such God’s past revelation" [1] and that "we thus do the Bible poor and unwelcome honour if we equate it directly with this other, with revelation itself." […]
Karl Barth argues in the Church Dogmatics I/1 that the Bible is not the Word of God, but the Bible becomes the Word of God when it is preached by the Church. Karl Barth's theology of the threefold Word of God maintains this important distinction, because the Word of God […]
The scripture principle (of sola scripture) was the foundation of the Protestant Reformation, and allowed a period of discovery and theological advancement that was achieved by using the Holy Scriptures to challenge the long standing traditional doctrines of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, this dangerous idea of the Reformation resulted in a […]
The Bible rarely addresses homosexuality, and all modern theological and ethical discussions of same-sex relationships are based roughly on six bible passages. In recent decades, theologians have recognized that these six verses are difficult to interpret, and many have questioned the traditional interpretations of them, and whether they apply to same-sex […]
John Calvin’s Spectacles of Scripture (January 5, 2017)
John Calvin's Biblical Eyeglasses
The Reformed theologian, John Calvin, said the Bible is like eyeglasses that allow us to see God and without the spectacles of Scripture, we are like an old person with blurry vision and unable to see God or or see God in Creation. In the event of reading the Scriptures […]
Review of Karl Barth and the Achilles’ Heel of the Bible [video] (August 8, 2016)
In this video, I discuss my recent article on Karl Barth and the Achilles' Heel of the Bible.
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C.H. Dodd vs Michael Horton on Plenary Verbal Inspiration (December 19, 2014)
Michael Horton's The Christian Faith and C.H. Dodd's The Authority of the Bible
The following is a debate been Michael Horton and C.H. Dodd on Plenary Verbal Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures.
In Michael Horton's The Christian Faith, he perceives B.B. Warfield's The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible as the undisputed champion of the […]
Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice By David Teems (Review) (February 7, 2012)
David Teems' book, "Tyndale: The Man Who Gave God an English Voice" is a biography about William Tyndale who pioneered the translation of the Holy Bible into modern English. The first widely circulated English translation of the bible was written in Middle English by John Wycliffe in the 14th century. […]
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Book of Enoch (August 17, 2007)
I bought a book called the Apocalyptic Literature and Testaments Vol. 1 by James H. Charlesworth because it contained modern translations of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, particularly (click to read): 1 Enoch, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch based on the Dead Sea...