Mark was written only about 13 years after the death of Christ. Hundreds of witnesses to the life, teaching, death, and Resurrection of Jesus would still have been alive in 43 AD.
Read moreWhen Were the Gospels Written, Part 1
Matthew and Mark were both written less than 20 years after the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ in 30 AD.
Read moreIslamic Anti-Semitism: Rooted in the Texts
The Quran paints a clear picture of the Jews: they are scheming, treacherous liars, the most dangerous enemies of the Muslims.
Read moreThe Babylonian Flood Legends
The Genesis Flood really happened, and there are many different accounts of it, told by the various ethnic and linguistic groups around the world.
Read moreRaqia: Expanse of the heavens or solid structure?
There is no real reason to accept the notion that the inspired writer of Genesis was trying to communicate a solid dome or vault by his use of the term “raqia.”
Read moreMore Soft Tissue in Dinosaur Bones
CSUN scientist Mark Armitage found soft tissue in a Triceratops horn, and published his results in a peer-reviewed journal. So CSUN fired him. But he won his case with help from Alan Reinach.
Read moreBaptizing the Devil, Part 1
Baptizing the Devil hopes to free people from the knee-jerk reaction that the only logical, rational reaction to the phrase, It’s science! is to surrender one’s beliefs, even religious ones.
Read moreGod’s Health Laws Vindicated, Part III
America’s indulgence of its sweet tooth has been facilitated by government subsidies of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Read moreGod's Health Laws Vindicated, Part II
God created us and knows what food works best to fuel our biological machinery: fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains.
Read moreGod's Health Laws Vindicated, Part 1
The laws regarding clean and unclean animals evidence a greater than human wisdom, and constitute a compelling evidence that Scripture is what it purports to be: divinely inspired.
Read moreThe Acrylamide Connection
We now know that there is an additional reason for Ellen White’s counsel to avoid fried potatoes and fried sweet potatoes: acrylamide.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 9
Scripture has not changed, but the culture has changed radically. Those who would conform to the culture find themselves needing to radically re-interpret the word of God.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 8
Ellen White did not, by the example of her life, disrupt the biblical pattern of male spiritual headship in the church.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 6
We come now to the central issue in the ordination debate: whether candidates for the Christian Church’s headship offices of elder and bishop/overseer must be male
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 5
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God (1 Cor. 11:3).
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 4
The principles revealed by the incarnation and death of God the Son—including the submission of the Son to the Father notwithstanding that both are God and both co-eternal—have always been “the foundation of God's throne” (GC 22).
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 3
Sex is the only distinction between human beings that Jesus created. This fact sets gender apart from any other difference we find between people, whether in history or in contemporary times.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 2
Before we can analyze whether women are excluded from the headship offices of the church, we must first distinguish between church offices and spiritual gifts.
Read moreA Defense of the Doctrine of Male Headship in the Church, Part 1
Here, and in the installments that will follow, I will present a case study of doctrinal apologetics, a biblical defense of the doctrine of male headship in the church.
Read moreIndiana Banks and the Tablet of Trig
Extremely ancient Babylonians pioneered a form of trigonometry that is more exact than the form used by later Mesopotamians and by the Greeks and Western Civilization.
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