Matthew | March 31, 2009
There is another book I read before this one, but wanted to review it because of some of the money issues I am facing this week. The taxes has returned and I am getting a huge credit because of the “First Time Home Buyer Credit.” This is a great deal, thank you stimulus plan. With [...]
Matthew | March 30, 2009
This weekend I felt like a winner and a loser. The sad news is that I am not the top new blogger for the year. I guess I was just happy to be even mentioned. Thank you to everyone who voted for me, not a lot of people, but some people did. Thank you. As [...]
Matthew | March 27, 2009
This book is a excellent resource for the early centuries of Christianity. The purpose of the book was to trace the influence of Judaismon Christianity. The author writes in an understandable way for a book that borders more on the scholarly side of the conversation. He deals with some of the major ideas of Christianity [...]
Matthew | March 26, 2009
Guy N Woods develops his syllogism from two verses from 1 John. He quotes 1 John 1:8 and 1 John 5:16. The first problem with a syllogistic approach is the tendency to ignorant the context. In creating an argument from the text, the specific verses are used to build the syllogism. Often the immediate context [...]
Matthew | March 25, 2009
This book has been “bathroom reading for me.” It was given to me over the holidays and I have slowly read it. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have a stomach flu and spent a lot of time in the “john” yesterday night. Well, I finished the book, and most people did not need the extra information [...]
Matthew | March 24, 2009
Syllogisms in Interpretation In the Gospel Advocate series on the New Testament, Guy N Woods wrote a commentary on the letters of “Peter, John, and Jude.” On pages 321-322, he uses a syllogism to deal with the “sin unto death” from 1 John 5:16-17. To prove his point on this doctrine, he reduces the teaching [...]
Matthew | March 23, 2009
Guided by the Currents. The original explorers sailed across the seas by using the natural currents within the ocean. The expert navigators were able to read the weather, the wind, and the flow of the sea to travel great distances. Biblical navigators must be able to read the direction of society to compose a proper [...]
Matthew | March 20, 2009
This book was sent to me by the publisher. I was excited to read it, but had to delay for some time because of the huge reading load from school. Finally, I completed the book. Amazingly, this was a great book on public speaking and presentation skills. Often these books are a repeating of the [...]
Matthew | March 19, 2009
The syllogism has been part of Biblical interpretation within the churches of Christ. A normative example of the prominence of the syllogism comes from the debate between J. Carroll Stark and Joe S. Warlick. This debate was reprinted in the Gospel Advocate in 1903. In this debate concerning the instrumental music issue, there were twenty [...]
Matthew | March 18, 2009
During the medieval times, there were those who were afraid of falling off of the horizon. These were the people blinded by the previous paradigms. Instead of following the signs, these people were limited by the pool of knowledge which was in existence. The map readers were confined to the old world but navigators were [...]
