I've been following the story in Postville, Iowa and I realize that if there is any public issue important to both humanists and theists, this is it. There is such an immense humanitarian concern...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2008/08/if-you-dont-know-about-this-you-should.html
Take 90 seconds to watch this: Got this from Border Explorer , who got it from Jan --pass it on.
Crime and punishment, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; that’s the sort of theology I expect from Deuteronomy. Some would say I lack an appreciation for the subtleties and layers of meani...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2008/08/theological-center-of-old-testament.html
“If the Bible is indeed the literal and inerrant word of God, one might wonder why God thinks it so important that we know the names of these long-dead non-entities and their familial relations...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/11/genesis-1110-32-yeah-more-theology-bo.html
Well, first let’s ask ourselves if this legend of the Tower of Babel necessarily follows chronologically the legend of the Origin of Peoples. It doesn’t necessarily, and that’s a way of tak...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-theology-genesis-111-9.html
Hello Peeps. I’ve been gone a while, but I seem to have found the time to come back. I no longer have internet service at home, which is a huge drawback. And my conscience prevents me from spen...
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> 10 This is the account of Shem. > Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became > the father of Arphaxad. 11 And after he became the father�...
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> 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men > moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. > > 3 They said to each...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/08/genesis-111-8.html
> Genesis 10 > The Table of Nations > 1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah's sons, who > themselves had sons after the flood. > The Japhethites > 2...
The broad range of the human condition contained in the Bible is one of the things that makes it personally significant to individuals and allows for a dialogical approach * to reading the Bible....
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/08/genesis-918-28-theistic-response.html
> 18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and > Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three > sons of Noah, and from them�...
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With regard to my previous post, I just wanted to add a note as an aside (and for the sake of Grandmere Mimi ) that I do believe MP was being facetious when he said Jesus died on the cross for o...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/sins-dietary-and-otherwise.html
Typical. I've been letting my partner do all the heavy lifting again. And he's right, of course. Hopeful promises won't save our planet from human destruction; but they will relieve God from hav...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-may-be-lame-but-madpriest-is-not.html
> 7 As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the > earth and increase upon it." > > 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 "I ...
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> 4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. > > 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will > demand an accounting...
I can talk about stewardship. I'm pretty good at that. Genesis 9:1-3 is a call to stewardship. A literal approach to the Bible is very--well I think we've already covered this--childish. If I we...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/doing-theology-with-genesis-91-3.html
I've noticed quite a few bloggers in the Jeebus circle are talking about how NOT to read the Bible, and there are some very good points on that subject. I thought I would tack in a slightly di...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-read-bible-part-deux.html
> 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful > and increase in number and fill the earth. > > 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon...
I broke my baby toe this morning. And this is entirely the reason why I'm writing a post at this moment. Because I was not able to drive to my class this morning I have some time to write a littl...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/06/reasons-people-read-bible.html
> 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and > first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed > the covering from the a...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/06/genesis-813-22.html
> 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock > that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, > and the waters receded...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/06/genesis-81-12.html
> 1 The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole > family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 > Take with you seven of ev...
> 9 This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless > among the people of his time, and he walked with God. > 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham ...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/05/genesis-69-22.html
At one time the search for knowledge was all one. Science, history, religion, philosophy; at first there was no distinction between these. I retell the obvious. The Bible was one of the earliest...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/05/its-kind-of-like-this.html
I have to admit: I don't really look like Mary Tyler Moore...
http://platodialogue.blogspot.com/2007/05/who-can-turn-world-on-with-her-smile.html