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meteorologists: those godless liberal heathen deniers of truth
As someone who stands on God’s Word as the only sure guide to faith and life, I would like to make the following courageous observation: meteorologists daily launch an insidious attack upon the Word of...
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Biblicism: What is it and Why Does it Make Baby Jesus Cry?
Here is my definition of “biblicism.” Biblicism is the tendency to appeal to individual biblical verses, or collections of (apparently) uniform verses from various parts of the Bible, to give the...
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5 Modern Insights about the Old Testament that Aren’t Going Anywhere
These 5 insights overlap a bit, but here they are. (1) The Old Testament is an ancient Near Eastern phenomenon. Perhaps an obvious point, but worth putting at the top of the list. Nothing has changed...
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“I was always taught the Bible says X, but I just don’t see it”
Back in 2014 (you remember 2014—the good old days; before Brexit, Donald Trump, and exploding cell phones) I ran a series on biblical scholars and their “aha” moments, meaning when they saw that their...
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My First Big, Can’t-Get-Out-Of-It, “Aha” Moment with the Bible
Following on my last post, here is the issue that made it impossible for me to shake the feeling that something was wrong with how I was taught to think about he Bible. The Bible just wasn’t behaving...
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Historical Criticism and the “Inner Impulse towards Truth” in Christian Faith
The quote below is from an article by German Old Testament scholar Konrad Schmid, “What Is the Difference Between Historical and Theological Exegesis?” pp. 2-3 (my paragraph formatting; available...
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Honoring Tradition by Reshaping It: Our Sacred Responsibility
Taking seriously our embodiment as finite and as situated within a particular space and time means that we are all inevitably placed somewhere within an unfolding historical and cultural tradition and...
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Can the Bible Be “Trusted” and What Does That Even Mean?
I get questions like this now and then. Pete, I hate you—but I digress. You talk about the Bible being “messy”—it has historical problems, tensions, and contradictions. How can such a messy book be...
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The Bible Invites Us on a Quest: Quick Preview of My Next Book
In my book The Bible Tells Me So, I go on and on (and on) to say that the Bible isn’t like a heavenly rule book, a Christian owner’s manual, a field guide to faith, a teacher’s edition text book with...
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We All Have a History. Even God.
Mark S. Smith’s book The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel opens with a quotation from the 6th c. AD writer on Roman antiquity, Lydus. There has been and is much...
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A Very Brief Thought for Today on How the Bible Works, Which Will Change Your...
As some of you know, I’ve gotten some mileage out of the years by thinking of the Bible as analogous to Christ. As Christ is in some mysterious sense “human and divine” the Bible is, like Jesus,...
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3 Reasons Why the Bible Is Worth It
Yeah, I know. I can be a bit negative when it comes to the Bible. That’s what people tell me, anyway—especially after my “Pete Ruins Christmas” series. No wait. That’s wrong. I didn’t ruin Christmas...
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The Bible Invites Us on a Quest: Quick Preview of My Next Book
In my book The Bible Tells Me So, I go on and on (and on) to say that the Bible isn’t like a heavenly rule book, a Christian owner’s manual, a field guide to faith, a teacher’s edition text book with...
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We All Have a History. Even God.
Mark S. Smith’s book The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel opens with a quotation from the 6th c. AD writer on Roman antiquity, Lydus. There has been and is much...
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A Very Brief Thought for Today on How the Bible Works, Which Will Change Your...
As some of you know, I’ve gotten some mileage out of the years by thinking of the Bible as analogous to Christ. As Christ is in some mysterious sense “human and divine” the Bible is, like Jesus,...
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Remember to Hold Your Beliefs Lightly: The Bible Says So
by Photos8.com Here’s the point I want to make today: Being deeply challenged in our faith is not a “threat” or “attack” that should be fought against. Rather, these moments play an important and...
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Paul: Well, Technically Speaking, He’s Not REALLY “Winging It”
Last week, I threw up on the worldwide interwebs a little post about Paul and the book of Romans, namely that, Paul seems to be winging it. I say that for two reasons. 1. The gospel Paul preaches seems...
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What Permanently Screwed Me Up about the Bible (but it turned out well)
People ask me all the time—well, actually, they hardly ever ask me because who really cares about me and my life, by let’s keep up the facade—people ask me all the time what has been the most...
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Questions that Pete addresses in this Facebook Live video: In the Christian’s common understanding of Isaiah 52 and 53 referring to Jesus the Messiah, is that an accurate and fair application? How do...
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There are No Contradictions in the Bible (Yeah, You Heard Me)
1. If I say, “I hate oatmeal” and then turn to someone else and say “I love oatmeal,” I am contradicting myself. 2. If I said 20 years ago “I hate oatmeal” and now say “I love oatmeal,” I am not...
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