In my recent column ‘Read the Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY’, printed in both the Jamaica Observer and the Jamaica Gleaner on Tuesday February 4 instant, I stressed the need to recognize various literary features of the kinds of literature in …
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Afrocentrism/Black Consciousness: Critical Thoughts
Over the last five hundred years, Christianity in Africa and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) and with inverse racism (when Blacks headed the hierarchy …
Clinton Chisholm | Read The Bible Literarily NOT LITERALLY
Both Bible believing Christians and critics of the Bible make the same blunder when attempting to make sense of the pieces of ancient literature now called the Bible.
The Bible may be sacred literature for Christians but literature nonetheless and …
Reading Ancient Texts Responsibly
For Drs. Ethon Lowe, Michael Abrahams and others
Though many (learned and unlearned folk) seem not be aware of it, there is an academic version of the biblical “believe not every spirit…” It is “double-check all sources.” I ‘push up’ myself …
Is the Bible Inerrant or not?
“…the books contained within the Bible were written by man, who is fallible and therefore prone to error. Bearing this in mind, it is disingenuous to know that all the chapters in the Bible were written by human hands and …
Evil and God: A Critical Rethink
“Surprisingly, instead of evil being a good argument against God, I am convinced it is one of the best evidences for God.” (Greg Koukl, Tactics, 2019, p.171)
Nobody can be indifferent about the presence of evil in the world beyond …