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Scripture Commentary article 2023-03-09

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Apostles

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 5 on whether women were apostles in the New Testament

1 Corinthians 12:28 1 Corinthians 12:7 1 Corinthians 15:5 Women in Leadership Debates

Scripture Commentary article 2022-11-24

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong With Genesis 1–3: ‘Was Women’s Submission Just A Curse To Be Overturned?’

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 2 on Genesis 1-3 and whether women's submission was just a curse to be overturned

1 Corinthians 11:7-10 1 Corinthians 15:22 1 Corinthians 16:15-16 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission Women in Leadership

Scripture Commentary article 2021-04-05

The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

Gary R. Habermas and Michael R. Licona — Kindle highlights from 'The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus'. 110 highlights.

Colossians 2:9 Phil 3:21 Christology Apologetics Resurrection

Scripture Commentary article 2020-06-02

The Giving Part 2: Judas the Betrayer, a Balanced View of the Sovereignty of God

[Music] the giving is a balanced view of the sovereignty of God God's sovereignty is vitally important for us to know God yet it's God's sovereignty taught as a system of theological thought which can lead to a person reading into the biblical text an outside concept that is foreign to the writers i...

Luke 22:18 Luke 22:21 Luke 22:3 Soteriology Calvinism Atonement

Scripture Commentary article 2007-05-27

1 Corinthians 113 And Head

In the last post I summarized the foundational points from chapter 10 that is necessary to the understanding of chapter 11. If you haven’t read it already, it can be read by clicking here

1 Corinthians 11:12 1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:8 1 Corinthians 11 Debates

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-13

@OFloridaCracker @WhiteHistorian @kirableu @smashbaals Primary are the core doctrines like the Trinity, the deity and resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation by grace through faith, the authority of Scripture, and the clear biblical directives on sin...

@OFloridaCracker @WhiteHistorian @kirableu @smashbaals Primary are the core doctrines like the Trinity, the deity and resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation by grace through faith, the authority of S

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-14

@Sentinel_VA @smashbaals @TheJaredian Yes, the laws related to clean and unclean foods do not apply to believers after the resurrection of Jesus. However, Paul took a Nazarite vow in the New Testament (Acts 18:18; 21:23-26). He did this post-resurr...

@Sentinel_VA @smashbaals @TheJaredian Yes, the laws related to clean and unclean foods do not apply to believers after the resurrection of Jesus. However, Paul took a Nazarite vow in the New Testamen

Acts 18:18 debate

Theology verse entry

Titus 2:11

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis

Titus 2:11 grace,salvation,universal atonement,unlimited atonement,soteriology

Mike Winger idea 2018-03-21

Preview of next week's livestream: responding to resurrection deniers and the excuses they give

Closing announcement for the next session

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Apostles

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong With Genesis 1–3: ‘Was Women’s Submission Just A Curse To Be Overturned?’

The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

The Giving Part 2: Judas the Betrayer, a Balanced View of the Sovereignty of God

1 Corinthians 113 And Head

@OFloridaCracker @WhiteHistorian @kirableu @smashbaals Primary are the core doctrines like the Trinity, the deity and resurrection of Jesus Christ, salvation by grace through faith, the authority of Scripture, and the clear biblical directives on sin...

@Sentinel_VA @smashbaals @TheJaredian Yes, the laws related to clean and unclean foods do not apply to believers after the resurrection of Jesus. However, Paul took a Nazarite vow in the New Testament (Acts 18:18; 21:23-26). He did this post-resurr...

Titus 2:11

Preview of next week's livestream: responding to resurrection deniers and the excuses they give

Video framing: not just presenting resurrection evidence but specifically examining how skeptics dodge it

Livestream is framed as an exercise in loving God with the mind — building the Christian worldview intellectually

Named skeptics to be examined: Matt Dillahunty, David Hume, Sam Harris, Dan Barker, Richard Carrier, Bart Ehrman

Annual wave of low-scholarship anti-resurrection media (e.g., 'Lost Tomb of Jesus', Joaquin Phoenix Mary Magdalene film, Da Vinci Code)

The evidence-based case for the resurrection is historically grounded, not merely faith-based

Five historically-accepted facts about the resurrection summarized as the acronym ALIVE

First fact (A): Death by crucifixion — historically documented and generally agreed upon

Second fact (L): Women/ladies found the tomb empty — criterion of embarrassment supports authenticity

Third fact (I): Independent post-resurrection appearances of Jesus accepted by the vast majority of historians

Fourth fact (V): Violence endured by the Apostles — dramatic transformation from hiding to dying for their message

Fifth fact (E): Enemies of Christ converted — specifically James the brother of Jesus and Paul the Apostle

The resurrection best explains all five ALIVE facts; other explanations must account for all five

Swoon theory: Jesus only appeared dead, was not actually dead, and recovered in the tomb

Twin theory: Jesus had a twin who was either crucified or who appeared after the crucifixion

Mass hallucination theory: the appearances of Jesus were mass hallucinations rather than physical encounters

Spiritual resurrection theory: Jesus rose spiritually but not bodily

Wrong tomb theory: disciples went to the wrong tomb, found it empty, and triggered the resurrection belief

Missing body theory: Jesus's body was never in the claimed tomb or went missing, explaining the empty tomb

Conspiracy theory: the disciples deliberately stole or fabricated the empty tomb story

Swoon theory refuted by facts A, I, and V: the description of crucifixion, the nature of post-resurrection appearances, and the disciples' bold willingness to die

Twin theory refuted by facts L, I, and E: empty tomb implies no second body; intimate companions would have known; family members converted

Mass hallucination theory refuted by fact I: hallucinations are individual, not shared; 1 Corinthians 15 cites 500 simultaneous witnesses

Spiritual resurrection theory refuted by the meaning of the word 'resurrection' in first-century Jewish context — N.T. Wright's scholarship

Wrong tomb theory refuted by facts I, V, and E: independent appearances, violence endured, and enemy conversions cannot be explained by a navigational error

Missing body and conspiracy theories both fail to explain facts I, V, and E; conspiracy adds knowingly dying for a lie

The resurrection is the one rational explanation that accounts for all five ALIVE facts

David Hume's argument: miracles are impossible, therefore no testimony can ever establish a miracle

Hume's single exception: he would only accept a miracle if it was the lesser of two competing miracle claims

Bart Ehrman's position: even if miracles happened, historians should not believe them

In his debate with William Lane Craig, Ehrman granted all five ALIVE facts but denied any historian can postulate miracles

After the Craig debate, Ehrman changed position and now denies the burial — Mike argues this is ad hoc motivated reasoning

Richard Carrier is a mythicist — he denies Jesus existed at all, a fringe position among credentialed scholars

Carrier teaches that in 1 Corinthians 15, Paul describes events that occurred in outer space — a cosmic/celestial resurrection rather than an earthly one

Carrier's theory that the disciples were a mass gathering of schizophrenic individuals prone to shared hallucinations

Carrier constructs a 'Frankenstein theory' drawing on ancient literature to claim Gospel narratives were plagiarized from myths

Dan Barker: former Christian musician now affiliated with Freedom From Religion Foundation, who debates and speaks against Christianity

Dan Barker's four reasons to reject the resurrection: problem of history, possible natural explanations, internal Bible contradictions, legendary growth

Barker's 'problem of history': miracles cannot be established from historical evidence — same Humean presupposition as Ehrman

Barker won't commit to a specific natural explanation because none can withstand scrutiny

Barker's internal contradictions objection is a red herring — the five historical facts don't depend on biblical inerrancy

Barker's legendary growth argument cherry-picks data — each Gospel sometimes has more miraculous content, sometimes less

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