July 10, 2006

Dave’s Mormon Inquiry: Misquoting Jesus

Any Mormon who has an Evangelical every-word-of-the-Bible-is-true neighbor or work colleague who gives them a hard time about the Book of Mormon ought to consider this book as a Christmas gift. Their criticisms will likely become decidedly more restrained after they read it.

This is an interesting spin on things … their version is unreliable so ours is?

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Official Google Blog: The platypus of the Internet

As with the platypus, it’s not until we saw XUL in action that we realized how well suited for survival this product of Internet evolution is.

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Dillon Burroughs has avoided this pitfall in his thoughtful, timely, sensitive, biblical response … As a speaker, writer, and advocate for the Christian faith, Dillon Burroughs has appeared in numerous locations nationwide and abroad. …

Geekness - with fresh and clean air

Google testing GDrive (Codename Platypus)

With screenshot.

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Middlebrow

But along comes Bart D. Ehrman, with his new book Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. This book sells like ipods (faster than hotcakes, you know) and gets Prof. Ehrman on CNN, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, NPR’s Fresh Air, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show –okay, that last one is pretty odd. Text criticism (“Complutensian polyglot!” – not a good punchline) on The Daily Show (see it here). What’s going on?…

But there is a problem with Professor Soundbite. The problem is that his soundbites are misleading. They give an impression that is not true. It’s not that Ehrman is directly lying, but he is making unethical rhetorical maneuvers that amount to hi-tech sophistry.

Sharp review of MQJ from THE SCRIPTORIUM DAILY.

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Powell’s Books - Review-a-Day - Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend by Bart D. Ehrman, reviewed by Christian Science Monitor

With his divorce from literalism, the author doesn’t appear to have grappled much with the sense of the power of the Spirit that pervades the New Testament. He views Jesus and his three major followers as “apocalypticists” who expected the kingdom to come in the very near future and “return the earth to its original paradisiacal state.” And it did not.

A telling review from the Christian Science Monitor.

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