Jeremy Thompson

Category: Theology

  • Justin Taylor's Misuse of Genesis 18.25

    This entire POST by Justin Taylor is problematic in a considerable number of ways.  For example, there is no consideration of literary genre.  Joshua is a narrative concerning ancient warfare.  Descriptions of ancient warfare are not the most historically accurate literary texts in the corpus of ancient literature.  Rulers often described their battles as far…

  • 10 Random Beliefs Meme

    This meme thing is fun.  I hadn’t been tagged for one, but then it was two in about a 24 hour period.  I think I probably went overboard on the first one, but that tends to happen when I rant (though I think I may have had a point somewhere in there).  Thanks to James…

  • Interesting Posts Today

    No time to write on my own yet.  Maybe later this evening, but here are some interesting posts I’ve read today: John Hobbins – Why believers must complain about and criticize biblical texts Chris Brady – Want a date? Deny the existence of God Doug Chaplin – The wrong question: James McGrath on Jesus as…

  • Daniel McClellan on Monotheism and Other Gods in the Hebrew Bible

    I have posted a number of times in the past about examples of henotheism in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.  HERE is a post by Daniel McClellan in which he goes into a significant amount of detail on the topic.  I am one who was trained in the manner of Wiggins who he cites in the…

  • Harriet A. Harris on Fundamentalism and Evangelicals

    Recently, I posted pointed out what I felt was an instance of fundamentalism on the Desiring God blog. And, after a bit of conversation on FaceBook I think it might be helpful to explain the way that I use the term fundamentalism. For this term, I follow the approach of Harriet A. Harris who has…

  • Terence E. Fretheim on God and Violence in the Old Testament

    HERE is a link to a helpful article by Terence E. Fretheim in Word and World (Vo1. 24.1, 2004) on “God and Violence in the Old Testament.”  I will try to summarize Fretheim’s points the best that I can: Violence is both an Old Testament and New Testament phenomenon.  I recommend checking out the footnotes…

  • Have You Heard that Religious Belief is Dying Out?

    Have you heard that religious belief is supposedly dying out?  Not according to THESE FACTS AND FIGURES.  Thanks to John Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry for posting them.  Some of these statistics are absolutely astounding.  I’ll give you just one to whet your appetite: 2#. Every 24 hours, the number of atheists in the…

  • Chris Brady on The Character of God in Genesis 1

    HERE is a post by Chris Brady on the character of God in Genesis 1 that is well worth a read.  My favorite quote from the post is: Given that God is the subject of almost every verb in the opening creation story of Genesis it is surprising that God is never provided with any…