Lighten Up: The Unmerciful Servant

A Revelation of Beauty Through Ugliness March 20, 2013

In my recent post, Getting Honest About the Dark Side of the Bible, I enlisted no less an authority than John Calvin to support my claim that we need to be forthright in acknowledging that some of the portraits of God in the OT are, as he said, “savage” and “barbaric.”  What else can we…

What To Do With the Violent God of the Old Testament August 3, 2015

For eight years Greg has been researching for and writing the book entitled The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. In it he confronts the commonly held idea that the Old Testament depictions of God behaving violently should be held alongside of and equal to the God revealed through Jesus dying on the cross. But if the Old Testament…

Lighten Up: The Seeds of Doubt September 27, 2013

Sometimes you have to follow where doubt leads you.

Lighten Up: The Wisdom of Forgiveness August 21, 2012

The Bible is Infallible NOT Inerrant September 17, 2015

While the cruciform understanding (explained here) of the “God-breathed” nature of Scripture is in tension with the way most talk about inerrancy (See previous post on inerrancy), I do not believe it is at all incompatible with what the Church has always sought to express by affirming the “infallibility” the Scripture. The core conviction is that Scripture will…

Drum Roll Please: Greg’s Final Critique of Bart Ehrman’s Article January 5, 2013

This is the ninth and final of several videos Greg put together to refute Bart Ehrman’s claims published in the article What Do We Really Know About Jesus? Thanks for hanging in there for this last one. I know it was a long wait, but the holidays got inordinately busy for Greg. In this segment, Greg talks…