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Readers have given me some tough nuts to crack:  Problems with proving the resurrection and with knowing if books of the New Testament may have been scissored and pasted together.  Here are intriguing and important questions I've received, with my attempts to answer them.   QUESTION: When I first began to read Bart’s Blog, he [...]

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  There are passages of the New Testament that I’ve always found puzzling and have left it at that – not digging in deep in order to try to understand them.  That may be kinda weird for a NT scholar, but it is just as common as it is weird.  Some of these puzzlers involve [...]

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In my previous post I gave a brief overview of the doctrine of predestination, especially as developed by the great 16th century Protestant Reformer John Calvin and his followers.  I ended the post by indicating – surely this is a surprise for many people – that one of the most interesting and formative understandings of [...]

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What do you think of the idea of predestination?  That only those who have been predestined by God (from eternity past) can be saved: but not anyone else. The doctrine can be found or at least intimated (possibly: depending on how you interpret them) in a few – though not many – passages of the [...]

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Here are some of the excellent questions I've been receiving recently, and attempts to respond to them!     QUESTION: I understand why the problem of evil makes belief in God difficult. When you look honestly at suffering, it weighs heavily. I don’t think that should be dismissed. But I wonder… if the existence of [...]

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