Deifying the Bible
In an article about 6 popular Christian sayings that aren’t true, David Schell points out the problems with saying that the Bible is the “Word of God.” He writes:Neither the Bible, nor the Nicene...
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When is the Bible the “Word of God”?
It is obvious to anyone who has thought about the matter that the Bible is not the “words of God.” It includes words attributed to Satan, to say nothing of words to which human authors like Paul have...
View ArticleBiblicism in a Single Image
David Hayward has created yet another excellent cartoon: The irony, of course, is that many Biblicists will not get this, because they cannot envisage a distinction between what God or Jesus says on...
View ArticleYoung-Earth Creationists Substitute Words of Men in Place of the Word of God
Time and time again I have heard young-earth creationists say that one has to choose between what humans say about the origins of the cosmos and of human beings on the one hand, and the Word of God on...
View ArticleGod’s Bible
Here’s another provocative cartoon from David Hayward: David points out that the Bible’s repeated references to “the Word of God” are not about something that can be called “the Bible.” This is true –...
View ArticlePeople Wrote It, You Believe Them, That Settles…Nothing
David Hayward's cartoon above gets at an important issue. I suspect that very few of the Bible's authors actually thought in this way. Most genuinely believed that their dreams, their sense of...
View ArticleYoung-Earth Creationists Make God Out to Be a Liar
This comment was left on Facebook in response to a blog post of mine that someone shared: What’s especially ironic is the contrast between the young-earth creationist approaches to scripture, and to...
View ArticleThe Word of God by Cat Faber
I am grateful to Stewart for drawing this song to my attention, and to Brian Bowman for pointing out that those who point to this divinely-authored evidence can still say that they are citing the...
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