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An Even More Excellent Way: A Response to Joel Green on the Bible in Global Methodism
Should Global Methodist doctrine define what Scripture is or describe what Scripture does? That's the question posed by Joel B. Green in a new Firebrand article that criticizes my defense of the statement "Scripture is without error in all it affirms," which is language included in the proposed Articles of Faith to be considered by the General Conference of the Global Methodist Church (GMC) later this year. Green's article came in the form of a response to my critique of an e
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The State of New Testament Studies: A Quick Review
The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...
Matt O'Reilly
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Reading Romans in Context: A Review (@Zondervan, @bencblackwell)
Context is everything. That’s the first rule for interpreting scripture (or any other text, for that matter). The rule refers first to...
Matt O'Reilly
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Understanding the Little Apocalypse: Three things to remember about Matthew 24
Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...
Matt O'Reilly
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Inerrancy and Interpretation (2): More on the Licona Controversy
#BookReviews #Gospels #Hermeneutics #Scripture
Matt O'Reilly
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Was Jonah Really Swallowed by a Whale?
First, the text of Jonah doesn’t actually say that Jonah was swallowed by a sperm whale. It simply says he was swallowed by a big fish...
Matt O'Reilly
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Inerrancy and Interpretation: The Licona Controversy
The details of the controversy are available in other places; so I’ll simply sum up the core issue. In his massive book, The Resurrection...
Matt O'Reilly
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