Tag Archives: bible interpretation

Truth and Error, The Fall of the Church, and the Fathers

Posted on 10/17/2010 by Paul Pavao

Well, it’s been a while; over 2 weeks. So this will lightly touch on several subjects. Email Rumors: Taking Things With a Grain of Salt I had an email forwarded to me titled "Interesting Facts." It read: This October has … Continue reading →

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Born-Again Bible Reading: A Thought for Discussion

Posted on 05/13/2010 by Paul Pavao

Parsimony destroys the entire fundamentalist system. It rips their most important doctrines to shreds. Continue reading →

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Balaam and Bible Interpretation

Posted on 03/15/2010 by Paul Pavao

I talked about a symbolic form of interpretation described by Origen, the great 3rd century theologian from Alexandria, Egypt. But what I talked about, Britt Mooney recently put into practice. Continue reading →

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The True Sacrifices of God

Posted on 03/10/2010 by Paul Pavao

So why doesn’t God want another young bull or even a single male goat from the Israelites? There’s actually two reasons … but we modern Christians have adopted one particular error that stops us from noticing one of those reasons. Continue reading →

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The Proof Is in the Pudding: Jesus Approves the Scientific Method

Posted on 12/29/2009 by Paul Pavao

It is a basic premise of the scientific method that you need to prove what you believe. When Albert Einstein suggested that massive objects can exert enough gravitational pull to bend space, he had to prove it. The way he … Continue reading →

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Genesis One, Day Three: Edible Vegetation – Grass, Herbs, and Fruit

Posted on 12/06/2009 by Paul Pavao

I’ve taken a couple days to address day three of creation because it stumped me for a while. “Hmm,” I thought, “Maybe day 3 really is just about saying God created dry land and plants.” I really didn’t believe it, … Continue reading →

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Genesis One: The Waters Above and the Waters Below

Posted on 12/03/2009 by Paul Pavao

I was really having a hard time getting anything out of day 2 of creation. Maybe Answers in Genesis can deal with the science of having water above the firmament which holds the sun, moon, and stars, but I can’t. … Continue reading →

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Light and Darkness

Posted on 12/02/2009 by Paul Pavao

I started back through Genesis today, and I decided to really devote myself to the principles of Scripture interpretation that I talk about all the time. It made for a very short but very pleasant reading of only a part … Continue reading →

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Predestination, Calvinism, and Bible Interpretation: Part Three

Posted on 06/08/2009 by Paul Pavao

We have been looking at Calvinism’s TULIP a little bit. I considered going point by point through TULIP–and I still want to do that–but there’s something more important than that. Does the Scripture ever really bring up Calvinism? Are the … Continue reading →

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Calvinism, Predestination, and Bible Interpretation; Part Two

Posted on 06/01/2009 by Paul Pavao

Well, since Britt–a dear friend of ours and a good, godly man–has put it on my mind with his comment, let me make part two to cover Romans 9-11. I need to keep this short enough for a blog, which … Continue reading →

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