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The Unthinkable Christian Exercise
You can tell a lot about people by observing the patterns of their behavior. You can figure out what they think about things, and even how they do that thinking. What is surprising is to discover what things people don’t … Continue reading
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The “Stupid!” Bias
I’ve been studying cognitive science for the last three years or so, trying to understand why it’s so hard for people to correct their beliefs when those beliefs are demonstrated to be wrong. It is fairly obvious from the research … Continue reading
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The Stupidest Thing
Perhaps the stupidest thing I’ve done routinely in my life is to try to argue the facts with people who do not care about the facts. To this very day, I still find myself surprised at how someone can be … Continue reading
What Would Happen in a REAL Church Revival?
Before we get started talking about church revivals, let’s establish just how common a thing it is in our culture. If you do a Google search for [church revival], you get 192,000,000 returns. (In case you aren’t familiar with this … Continue reading
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Understanding How Bias Works in Bible Translators and Bible Readers
A great deal could be written concerning the processes and issues of Bible translation, but in this article, I have one particular goal in mind: I want to talk about how translators sometimes come upon a word or phrase that … Continue reading
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How People Think About The Bible
I couldn’t get sleepy last night at the usual hour so I decided to stay up and do the poor man’s version of a massive survey on how people think about the Bible. What I found deserves some attention. What … Continue reading
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There Is No Special Bible For Lazy People, PART II
In my previous post, I talked about how: We have to actually read the Bible to know what’s in it. Jesus seems to have thought that people’s misunderstandings were worth correcting, so we are to be in the habit of … Continue reading
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There Is No Special Bible For Lazy People
Jesus was talking to some from a religious faction (Sadducees) one day and he told them a most instructive thing: Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. … Continue reading
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On Keeping Bible Interpretation In Its Proper Place
There is the Bible, and then there is one’s interpretation of the Bible. Because we are so prone to cognitive error, these two are quite often not the same. None of us are inspired and/or infallible in our ability to … Continue reading
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Three Bible Study Rules
Regarding the Bible, here are three rules of study that most manage to resist quite successfully: Let us constrain ourselves to get out of the Bible nothing more than what was put there by its authors. Let us diligently get … Continue reading
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