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Was Lazarus the Beloved Disciple?
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Ben Witherington
If you want to cause Biblical scholars to get their knickers in a knot there are two sure fire ways to accomplish that end: 1) you can skewer a sacred cow whether a liberal or conservative one; 2) you can propose a theory that requires one to believe in the possibility of the miraculous to…
Hearing the Voice of God
By
Ben Witherington
Samuel heard it and mistook it for the voice of the priest. It was an audible voice, just like a human voice (1 Sam. 3). Moses heard it too. Elijah had to go all the way to Mt. Horeb to hear it, and then it came in a still whisper. Jesus heard it at his…
Hearing the Voice of God
By
Ben Witherington
Samuel heard it and mistook it for the voice of the priest. It was an audible voice, just like a human voice (1 Sam. 3). Moses heard it too. Elijah had to go all the way to Mt. Horeb to hear it, and then it came in a still whisper. Jesus heard it at his…
The Virginal Conception and Political Deception
By
Ben Witherington
In the “this takes the cake” department, I have two stories for you to refer to. But first a question– which is more unlikely, the birth of baby animals after a virginal conception, or Fox News deliberately reporting false information about Barack Obama?However unlikely it may seem to you, both things are true. First the…
The Smoking Gun–1600 Page Global Warming Report Out Soon
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Ben Witherington
1600 pages is a big report. Trouble is, it is only the first of four parts, the result of an enormous and some have said definitive report demonstrating beyond reasonable doubt that there is human causation of several sorts when it comes to global warming. The first part will be out in early February. America’s…
Global Warming and Evangelicals Part Deux
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Ben Witherington
After setting up the initial post on global warming I had a further chat with my wife. She points out that the ice core samples go back thousands of year and make perfectly clear that there has been a dramatic acceleration of the rise of the temperature of water in recent times. My son then…
Here Come the Pentecostals
By
Ben Witherington
It all began 106 years ago in Kansas when a woman broke out of normal speech into glossolalia. It was but a foreshadowing of a mighty wave of the Spirit which has still not crested as it has gathered momentum around the world. I was in Moscow to teach and my hosts asked me if…
Evangelicals and Climate Scientists Agree on Global Warming
By
Ben Witherington
Well its about time. We finally have a group of Evangelical ministers who are fed up with the junk science and head in the sand denials of some of their fellow Evangelicals in attempts to ignore that there is such a thing as global warming. Here is a brief excerpt from the story— “The Rev.…
Grisham’s “The Innocent Man”. Is Capital Punishment Biblical?
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Ben Witherington
John Grisham has made his fortune writing legal thrillers. Some eighteen of them. Up until his most recent work, “The Innocent Man” (Doubleday, 2006), which is yet another legal tale, he had never attempted writing a work of non-fiction. But the story of Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz, both wrongfully convicted of rape…
The Fate of the ‘Children of Men’
By
Ben Witherington
There are always movies one wants to see and movies one ought to see, and ‘Children of Men’ is one of the latter. My son David has been anxious to see this rather dark vision of the future (set in 2027), and I agreed it should be seen, not least because it is based on…
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