The Castle Church Door

In a parallel world known as Tellus, a controversy erupted over the rite of light. This controversy turned on interpretation of the words: "I am the light."There were some heretical schismatics as well as some schismatical heretics who took the words figuratively. However, an Inquisition put a speedy end to their unspeakable impieties.That, however, left many questions unanswered. When the Savior became a photon (at the words ...

I’ve been sparring with Perry Robinson over at Green Baggins. http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/a-word-from-dr-richard-b-gaffin-jr/steve hays said,June 29, 2008 at 7:46 amPerry,Let’s not lose sight of what’s at issue in the debate over Enns. Enns and his supporters are taking the position that God sometimes inspires errors, that Bible writers sometimes intend to make true assertions which we now know are false.How is the case of Caiaphas relevant to that issue? He ...

Perry Robinson has been a very busy boy, popping up on Evangelical blogs to market Eastern Orthodoxy. He’s done so at Green Baggins, and he’s done so at Parchment & Pen. I attempted to post a reply, but my comment was “truncated per site policy.”I take it that Patton wants to pitch his blog to the attention span of a kindergartner. Well, it’s his blog, so he’s welcome ...

I have a friend who has recently been struggling over his feelings and emotions (among other things) through a difficulty. By God's grace, Steve has graciously ministered to him with sweet words of comfort, encouragement, and strength. So, with their permission, and after some editing on my part mainly to preserve as much anonymity as possible, a portion of Steve's half of the dialogue is posted below. I ...

(Posted on behalf of Steve Hays.)An email correspondent asks about love and marriage:1. For most Christian men, permanent bachelorhood would be a spiritual impediment to sanctification.2. Having more things to be thankful for draws us closer to God. If a wife and kids are an occasion for thankfulness, that will draw you closer to God.3. Loving God is not a substitute for sexual and asexual varieties of human ...

According to Perry Robinson:“Added to this is the fact that various councils claim for themselves divine inspiration.”“The cessation of the apostolic office wouldn’t imply a lack of divine inspiration in the church, which is exactly and explicitly what the ecumenical councils that Protestants profess fealty to claim for themselves.”“But I would need to be infallible to judge in a way that was normatively binding on the consciences of ...

Does St. Paul embrace the allegorical method in Gal 4? Here’s some of what Moisés Silva has to say: “Some scholars argue that the passage uses a typological approach to the Genesis narrative, but many others are convinced that the apostle is treating us here to a full-blown allegorical interpretation. After all, he begins 4:24 with the words ‘which things are spoken [or ‘interpreted’] allegorically.” We must not simply ...

Since the topic of allegory and typology has arisen, it’s necessary to define our terms. Allegory is a hermeneutical method which asserts that a text denotes something other than, or above and beyond, its literal referents. It may regard the allegorical meaning as addition to the literal meaning. Or the allegorical meaning may be the “true” meaning. For example, the allegorical interpretation of Canticles takes this book to ...

Opening hostilities in the Wafer Wars commenced when a renegade monk by the name of Sensibilius published a commentary on the Gospel of John in which he suggested that the words, “I am the true bread,” should be interpreted figuratively rather than literally.His book was immediately placed on the index, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest and he was promptly burnt at the stake.That seemed ...

I recently got drawn into hand-to-hand combat with a couple of orcs who invaded the shire of a Presbyterian hobbit:http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/some-questions-for-pete-enns/Here is my side of the exchange:steve hays said,June 16, 2008 at 6:29 pmKen Hendrickson said,“In the first place, Sola Scriptura is directly contradicted by 2 Thess 2:15, which commands that we hold fast to the TRADITIONS which were taught by the Apostles, even those which were only taught ...