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Should the ESV really be the Reformed Standard Version?
There have been a number of Bible translation-related posts around blogdom this week as a result of papers given at the 60th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). One paper, Mark Strauss’ critique of the level of English used in the ESV (reproduced in 13 parts on Better Bibles, also PDF), has generated [...]
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A quote for open theism to chew on
1 Samuel 15.29 (REB):
God who is the Splendour of Israel does not deceive, nor does he change his mind, as a mortal might do.
My initial reaction is that open theism does not presuppose that God’s mind was determined in the first place, therefore the openness of his reaction or response to a situation is not [...]
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Should Christians be having babies?
In his book, In the End – The Beginning, Jürgen Moltmann notes the following consequences of Jesus fulfilling the role of Israel’s messiah and the savior of the nations:
Because Jesus has come as the promised son (Isa. 9.6), there is no longer any need for religious or legal privilege to be given to fathers and [...]
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Reflections on the messianic daughter and the image of God
In his book, In the End – The Beginning, Jürgen Moltmann writes that in contrast to the tradition of the Messiah as a male child as written in Isaiah 9.6 (”to us a child is born, to us a son is given”, there is another messianic tradition in scripture, the Wisdom tradition, that “identifies the [...]
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Giving thanks not for silver or gold…