Albert Mohler is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as occupying an upper-shelf among Baptist scholars these days. Get to know him, grow to love him. Here is an article he posted today about the waning strength of the rabid pro-abortion people. Turns out, the abortion movement has voluntarily eliminated its own stock of younger voters and activists. Who knew?! Conversely, folks actually having babies tend to be pro-life, and guess what? They tend to raise children who share their beliefs. The irony is so thick you can eat it with a fork...but use a spoon to get every drop.
On another, somewhat less hopeful note, my favorite living writer, Doug Wilson, lists 7 Reasons Why Your Taxes Will Go Up in the near future. In another in a long parade of worthy things to read from pastor Wilson, here is why Christianity seems so political all the time these days.
On another completely unrelated note, consider this:
When faced with the Gospel testimonies, skeptics take one of two tacts (and then alternate between them as the situation seems to warrant.)
1. They say that the Gospels cannot be inerrant Scripture, because the writers include different details about the same event, sometimes in a manner that makes reconciliation of the accounts a serious task. Did the Centurion go out to Jesus in Matthew 8, or did he merely send servants? What's the order of the events on the day of Christ's resurrection? Etc.
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2. They say that when the Gospels put the same events in the same order, and even use the exact same language and word order to describe them, well, then, that obviously means that Luke copied from Mark, or whatever.
At some point, these kinds of complaints begin to sound like what they are: grasping at straws in order to avoid the truth of the matter.
Either the Scripture includes too many disparate details, or it is in too much agreement about the details. Either way is good for the unbeliever. Any port in a storm.
"The Bible isn't inspired because the details vary!"
"The Bible isn't inspired because the details are the same!"
This is throwing every argument like a plate of spaghetti against the wall and desperately hoping something sticks.
How dumb would Matthew and Luke need to be, really, to copy large sections from Mark's gospel (which all the super smart guys think they did) but to then go ahead and leave some accounts of some things different? I mean, if they're copying in the first place, wouldn't that be for the purpose of making sure that they all got their stories straight? So why not go the whole nine and eliminate every instance of variance?
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