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go west, young man!

Posted on Thursday, 4th December, 2008 by martin

I like precision. If my watch is more than 2 seconds off the real time, I feel the need to rectify it (if only Aus had an atomic radio signal like most of the civilised world). Not only do I like to know precisely what time it is, I like to know precisely where I…

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what’s wrong with a literal translation?

Posted on Friday, 28th November, 2008Saturday, 27th November, 2010 by martin

Wayne Leman has been posting portions of a paper by Mark Strauss entitled Why the English Standard Version (ESV) should not become the Standard English Version over on the Better Bibles Blog. It’s long, and so it comes in parts, beginning here. Strauss highlights numerous problems with the ESV, its translation, its use of English,…

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bible codes, part II: gematria

Posted on Thursday, 20th November, 2008Thursday, 22nd September, 2022 by martin

Having previously discussed the Bible’s use of Atbash codes, it is time to look at the other type of code probably found in the Bible (as opposed to those people erroneously see there), that is, gematria.1 Before going too far, if you don’t have decent unicode support in you OS and browser, you’re going to…

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where was the garden of eden?

Posted on Sunday, 9th November, 2008Sunday, 9th November, 2008 by martin

OK, the correct answer is “I don’t know.” (But we did come across an idyllic valley during our travels in Tasmania once…) Genesis doesn’t tell us too much, and although we know of two of the rivers identified (the Tigris and the Euphrates), there’s no consensus on precisely what the other two rivers refer to….

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the dirt on dirt

Posted on Wednesday, 5th November, 2008 by martin

I’ve just seen yet another ad for a product which will kill 99.9% of all household germs. I’m worried about the 0.1% that are tough enough to survive and then have free reign since our anti-bacterial wonder-sprays have left the field completely free from competition. Surely they’re the germs we really should be worrying about,…

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educational nursery rhymes

Posted on Saturday, 1st November, 2008 by martin

Just a quick post this week. It has long struck me that there are educational opportunities we miss with young children, one of them being in the realm of nursery rhymes and other songs we teach the kiddies. In our house I’ve tried (with limited success) to introduce some variations to the normal wording in…

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disciplining children

Posted on Sunday, 26th October, 2008Wednesday, 5th November, 2008 by martin

Everyone has something to say about the best way to discipline children, even people without children! In Christian circles it is common to emphasize the “biblical” approach to discipline, an approach which inevitably (and not inappropriately) turns to advice from the book of Proverbs. Here are a few of the verses in Proverbs to which…

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bible codes, part I: atbash

Posted on Friday, 17th October, 2008Tuesday, 3rd April, 2018 by martin

Now the title to this post ought to be enough to signal that things could very easily get very strange (or perhaps “silly” is a better word)—am I about to predict the date of Jesus’ return? or perhaps disclose the results of some future sporting event? Are next week’s lotto numbers hidden in the pages…

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is everything we do ‘worship’?

Posted on Saturday, 11th October, 2008Monday, 18th July, 2016 by martin

There’s a tendency among many evangelicals—at least many of those with whom I’m familiar—to take Rom 12:1 as the basis for arguing that the Bible tells us that all we do should be described as “worship.”1 As a corollary to this, the point is often also made that referring to parts of a church service…

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is it always wrong for christian couples to choose to remain childless?

Posted on Saturday, 4th October, 2008Friday, 10th October, 2008 by martin

Recently, Lionel Windsor over on the the Sola Panel wrote an article entitled Welcoming Children in which he argued that it is inappropriate for Christians who marry to plan not to have children: The Bible teaches that marriage is good, and that one of the indispensable reasons for marriage is children. So if you notice…

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