Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Ezra 1:1, Jeremiah's "70-year" prophecies, and the nature of Prophecy

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  As part of my daily scripture reading, I read Ezra 1-5. While reading Ezra 1:1, it struck me that there is strong evidence for the "O...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Teresa and Arthur Beem on the Prophecies of William Miller and Ellen G. White

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  Teresa and Arthur Beem are former SDAs who are now Roman Catholics. They wrote an interesting book, It’s Okay Not to be a Seventh-Day Adve...

Hebrew as “Deformed English”

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  This is a spoof piece based on the charge the characters in the Anthon Transcript are "Deformed English"   We have come into p...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Interview with Hanna Seariac for FAIR Voices on Mariology

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 I was recently interviewed by my friend Hanna Seariac for the FAIR Voices podcast on the topic of Mariology (the theology of Mary, the moth...

Margaret Barker, "The Original Setting of the Fourth Servant Song"

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  I own and have read all of Margaret Barker ’s books. There are some Latter-day Saints out there who think she is the next best thing since...

Evidence for Indigenous "Others" in the Book of Mormon from Helaman 5-7

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Commenting on the evidence for “others” in the Book of Mormon, Blake Ostler provided the following example based on a careful reading of Hel...
Saturday, August 22, 2020

Jewish Traditions about the Rock that Followed the Israelites and 1 Corinthians 10:4

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  In 1 Cor 10:4, the apostle Paul wrote that the Israelites "did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual R...