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 II
God created us and knows what food works best to fuel our biological machinery: fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains.
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 7
Consistent with her oft-repeated statement that she was “a lesser light to lead men and women to the greater light” of Scripture, Ellen White taught nothing contradictory to the scriptural principles we have discussed so far in this series.
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.
Read moreThe Mystery of the Nipah Virus
In 1999, the country of Malaysia had a medical mystery on its hands. A disease was killing people in the village of Nipah. Young men would be healthy one day, and the next day they could not walk or talk.
Read moreIs Genesis History?
A new documentary film about origins was released this past February that I highly recommend. It is streaming on Netflix, and can also be found on Youtube.
Read moreIs Christianity Anti-Science?
Modern science arose in the Christian West. What we think of as empirical science and the scientific method arose nowhere else.
Read moreWhen Were the Gospels Written? A Response to Bart Ehrman, Part 2
It all adds up. The pieces fit together logically and harmoniously.
Mark was written only 14 years after the death of Christ.
When Were the Gospels Written? A Response to Bart Ehrman, Part I
Was there really a gap of 40 years between Jesus’ death and the writing of the first gospel? When were the gospels written?
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