by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 4, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Creation Conference 2013: Why Origins Matter, also promoted as an Answers in Genesis “Answers Conference” and an Institute for Creation Research event, Monday 28 January 2013 and Tuesday 29 January 2013, hosted by Southern California Seminary at Shadow...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 30, 2013 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
I’ve made a new post to the evangelicals-Mormons discussion group. Find the original, complete with any typos I’ve corrected below (but without added links), here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evangelicals_and_lds/message/3815. Sorry for the long delay in...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 2, 2012 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Image: The Zombies are Coming! Courtesy Deviant Art user Neo160 under Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0 license. In his Moore to the Point blog, Russell D. Moore suggests an analogy between currently popular zombies and spiritually dead humankind in general:...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 8, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Do Christians disagree in their interpretations of Scripture because Scripture is unclear, perhaps because spiritual truths transcend human language and so cannot be perfectly captured in words? Though many today would answer, “yes,” Samuel Hopkins,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 23, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Ronald H. Nash emphasizes the nature of the Christian God as one who can be known and who communicates verbally with persons he has specially created with an ability to understand such communications. Rationality and perspicuity, not irrationality and ineffable...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 2, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle explain how and why Scripture must take precedence over (theories about) nature in Christian scientific work….since the Bible has never been wrong about anything, and since it is the very Word of the One who knows everything, we must...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 12, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Edward F. Hills, in his Believing Bible Study, notes how Christian confidence should be grounded in faith, not faith grounded in Christian confidence.For many years the thinking of conservative Christians has been a house divided against itself, orthodox in some...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 4, 2011 | Pet Peeves
No matter how clever, sophisticated, erudite, linguistically astute, or stunningly beautiful in its complexity your interpretive scheme may be, if it requires you to ignore or dismiss patently clear passages of Scripture, or to interpret them to mean what any honest...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 1, 2009 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Graduate Papers, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Image: Van Huyssteen's Postfoundational Dream, copyright © 2021 by David M. Hodges, piouseye.com. Illustration created by combining, modifying, adding to, and subtracting from images of the Le Château des Pyrénées (1959) by René Magritte (1898-1967) and...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 8, 2009 | Annotated Quotations
Some suggest that pious Christian faith includes belief that the logically contradictory is true, such as in a divine realm beyond the laws of logic and all distinctions. In By Scripture Alone (2002 Trinity Foundation edition), W. Gary Crampton rejects this as impious...