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This “messy human business”

1/29/2008 – 10:30 am

In response to a friend asking about New Testament canon issues:
The “messy human business” (I like that phrase, it’s a good description of what people think) of the Canon is a fairly recent development in the history of unbelief, and it takes advantage of people’s lack of historical training and gullibility. (I’m going to [...]

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Bad press

12/20/2007 – 2:37 pm

This was a bit surprising. I was directed to this interview about the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which I had been given to understand was just another one of the recent, really good translations (alongside ESV and NASB95). But this interview is making me reconsider.
Problems:

Dr. Blum’s very first response, starting with “Well, the [...]

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Poythress uses Fedora

10/7/2007 – 7:29 am

Vern Poythress is a Linux user. Fedora is apparently his distribution of choice. Wow. He has a writeup of how to do Biblical Greek and Hebrew on desktop Linux on his website, licensed as GFDL 1.2.

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Bruce Metzger, 1914-2007

2/15/2007 – 1:00 am

Bruce Metzger, whose books God used to convince me that He used the fallible church as a means to the end of delivering an inerrant Scripture, has gone to his reward. Thanks, Dr. Metzger. He was one important link in the chain Christ used to draw me out of the cult I was [...]

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Free software I use everyday

5/9/2006 – 8:00 am

Picking up the meme from Jeff who got it from Frugal for Life, here is the free software I use everyday:

Emacs. Bar none, this is the most useful computer program I have ever used. I use it for statistics analysis, webpage development, computer programming, calendaring, email, Bible study, network administration, and more. [...]

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Confused Persians and Englishmen

2/9/2006 – 9:41 pm

There is simply no way that I will do justice to either Allen (the author of Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s Birthright) or Capt (author of several books, but particularly in this case Missing Links about the Behistun Inscription and other ancient clues to the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes) in a weblog post. It [...]

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2004 in Short Review

12/30/2004 – 10:54 am

The last few years I have had a tradition of posting an end-of-year review of everything that has happened in our lives and ministries. This will not be as detailed as the reviews of previous years, but here we go:
Personal things:

My wife’s sister, the cancer patient who we said we were helping last year, [...]

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