Over the past few weeks I’ve seen the above graphic on several atheist posts and I think that it is worth taking time to look at it and respond to it as the clear fallacious argument that it presents. There’s a number of fallacies in it, a clear straw man to begin with that is…
The thing to do in an attempt to slight Christian beliefs is to call someone a “fundamentalist”. That term seems to have lost any meaningful definition and has become more of an insult than an accurate or even applicable adjective. What does the term even mean? The Encyclopedia Britannica defines fundamentalism as, [a] type of…
Atheist Bart Ehrman has pointed to Mark 2:26 as evidence of an error in the Gospel of Mark, an error that led to the ultimate destruction of his faith. But is it an error or simply ignorance of the biblical text as a whole? I will argue that it is not an error on the…
It’s terribly tempting to try to crawl into someone’s head in an attempt to psychoanalyze them, to cover your criticism, whether it is justified or not, with a patina of professional jargon to make your own argument look better (see this as an example). Atheists, especially those that want to come off as rational and…
How were books stored and accessed in the ancient world? Matthew Nicholls explores what the surviving evidence of ancient books can tell us about libraries in antiquity.The British Library holds many fragments of ancient books which can tell us something about how Greek literature was written down, read, and transmitted, from individual books to large…
Sorry that it has been a while since I posted anything. The end of the semester has been rough. With teaching my class at church (the class begins here), finishing school projects and finals, my brain needed some downtime as well as the opportunity to look for new projects to start, like a potential book…
