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Stuart McEwing
Sep 24, 202411 min read
Recommended Biblical Commentaries
The following recommendations are provided by Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, in their book: How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth . 4th...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 20, 20241 min read
Are there out-dated teachings in the Bible?
The case needs to be made by the opponents of traditional Christian Belief in the Bible. These make assumptions they are not prepared to...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 20, 20242 min read
Grey’s Anatomy and Abortion law in Idaho
In case you weren’t already convinced the writing team of Grey’s Anatomy are completely sold out for politically left-wing talking...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 20, 20243 min read
Are Miracles Possible: Part 2
The biggest challenge to the historical case for Jesus’ resurrection is not historical in nature, but philosophical. This is the...
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Stuart McEwing
Apr 11, 202415 min read
What about Inerrancy?
The following is an appended transcript of a lecture given to the Encounter Ministry Development School, delivered 9 April 2024, by Stuart McEwing
(1) Understand the doctrine of inerrancy (2) Discover the types of errors that may be in the Bible
(3) Review strategies for maintaining inerrancy
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Stuart McEwing
Jan 17, 20236 min read
Does God Hate the Sin but Love the Sinner? Part 3
I have argued for this saying by breaking down each constituent part and seeing the evidence for each. God hates the sin, and God loves...
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Stuart McEwing
Jan 17, 20233 min read
Does God Hate the Sin but love the sinner? Part 2
In the previous part we say that God hates the sin. Here we see that God loves the Sinner. God Loves the Sinner After stating that God...
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Stuart McEwing
Jan 17, 20233 min read
Does God Hate the Sin but love the sinner? Part 1
Though the aphorism is not found in the Bible, it captures well a distinction between the actions people do and the persons themselves....
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Stuart McEwing
Jan 16, 20232 min read
What is a good cumulative case for God?
To Dr. Steven Law, I’ve never seen a cumulative case for God’s existence presented like the one you’ve characterised here. The ones I am...
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Stuart McEwing
Jan 12, 20231 min read
A Little Family
After a long journey through the forest, the Little family settle down to their campfire to share an evening meal. Image via Starryai
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Stuart McEwing
Dec 21, 20223 min read
<strong>Do we follow what the Bible says or what it doesn't?</strong>
Believe it or not, we should do what the Bible teaches us to do. Obeying the Lord’s commands means we are obligated to do some things, and not do others things. A case study on abortion is presented to demonstrate.
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Stuart McEwing
Dec 20, 20223 min read
Does God Require an Explanation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suq0ayB0b8I Atheist: Zeus, Ra, Ganesh? Theist: Not those other gods, the real God in the Bible. The...
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Stuart McEwing
Dec 15, 20226 min read
How not to react to arguments that run counter to treasured beliefs? A Case Study with 7 Strategies.
Stuart McEwing KT, there is plenty of evidence of God’s existence. KT Sure hasn’t been for me. Stuart McEwing KT, These arguments seek to...
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Stuart McEwing
Dec 2, 20223 min read
Should we love our enemies when your enemy is Hitler?
Sometimes the words of Jesus make total sense. Other times… “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’...
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Stuart McEwing
Nov 20, 20223 min read
Is abortion healthcare?
Nothing is better than being blocked by someone on Facebook because they can’t handle the logic-bomb you just set off. Instead of...
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Stuart McEwing
Nov 6, 20222 min read
What is "gender-affirming care"?
“Gender affirming care” is an Orwellian term to reference sex-denying medical interventions such as chemical castration and removal of...
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 13, 20226 min read
Is the Bible the word of God? Inspiration, Reliability, Infallibility and Inerrancy.
For most critics of Christianity it is the Bible that is the intellectual stumbling stone which prevents them from accepting the Gospel....
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 10, 20222 min read
How to handle alleged contradictions in the Bible?
How do we know the Bible is God's word? Confronting Disconfirmations Part 3. Key to the inductive argument for the inspiration of the...
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 3, 20224 min read
Is the Bible we have today, the Bible that was written back then?
How do we know the Bible is God's Word? Confronting Disconfirmations, Part 1. Focusing on the the Gospels, the first challenge is regarding the selection of what made it into the New Testament. The second challenge is posed by textual variants.
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 2, 20222 min read
How do we know the Bible is God's Word? Confirmations of Reliability.
Key to the inductive argument for the inspiration of the Bible is that in every area where the Bible can be confirmed it has been proved...
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 2, 20222 min read
How to we know the Bible is God's Word? An Argument from Below
This argument proceeds inductively from the many confirmations we receive when we try to see if what the Bible says is true. This is why...
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Stuart McEwing
Aug 2, 20224 min read
How do we know the Bible is God's word? An Argument from Above
We could cite scriptures which tell the Bible is the inspired word of God, but this would be begging the question. The statement “I...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 28, 20222 min read
<strong>Have the gifts ceased? </strong>
The affirmative answer is called cessationism - the spiritual gifts were restricted to he first century church, and were discontinued...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 26, 20223 min read
Where do you look for Biblical interpretation?
This Facebook post with the accompanying commentary caught my attention. Accompanying Commentary "...In this passage Jesus loved that...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 25, 20224 min read
Does Planned Parenthood use Propaganda?
Webpage of Planned Parenthood In case you are not aware, Planned Parenthood has a vested financial interest in the abortion industry. As...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 21, 20223 min read
How can you tell when God is speaking to you?
God speaks in many different ways. Primarily through the Bible. The Bible was partially composed by the writing Prophets, who seem to...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 4, 20225 min read
Does "Pro-life" mean being for women being able to choose to kill?
Nev Schulman is corrected, shown to be virtue-signalling, masquerading as compassionate and ignorant of the Pro-life view.
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 17, 20224 min read
Is God Male or Female?
One could possibly rephrase the question like this: “Can the socially-constructed phenomena of gender impose itself on the nature of the...
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 17, 20224 min read
What to do with the rapture?
Question: In the last days before Jesus comes back, will all the Christian's be taken away to be with God? i.e raptured. The rapture view...
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 15, 20222 min read
How do we know Heaven & Hell is real?
A biblical description of Heaven and Hell.
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 9, 20221 min read
Why does God love us?
Why does a square have four sides? Because it in the very nature of a square to have four sides. If the shape had anything other than...
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Can I disagree with others and still love them?
What does the Bible say about disagreement? …until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become...
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 8, 20222 min read
Does God really love and accept everyone?
Yes. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life....
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Stuart McEwing
Jun 7, 20223 min read
What to do when God is silent?
How do you know when to wait or when to step out in faith when it seems like God is silent?
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Stuart McEwing
May 26, 20225 min read
A Tale of two Ships
A short story based on a dream I had. I wrote it out as an exercise in writing, and published it myself as a small zine in 2005. Yes, the title does bare a resemblance to Augustine's classic work "A Tale of two Cities" for a reason. The allegory of the gospel isn't perfect, but it's worth thinking over.
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Stuart McEwing
Apr 28, 20222 min read
Post Card from the Parthenon
I shall recount for you my (explosive) memories of the Parthenon in Athens.
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Stuart McEwing
Apr 1, 20222 min read
My Friends are Disappearing
I don't usually write horror short stories. But this writing exercise that came up for a Year 10 class I was relief-teaching for came up and intrigued me. What makes a good horror is you take something thats meant to be safe, comfortable and ordinary, and then you flip it on its head so it becomes the opposite. A day at the beach in the shallow water? No, there's a giant and hungry shark on the loose. A time to relax in your new house, going to sleep in your comfortable, warm
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 8, 20213 min read
Can Adopting the Enneagram be justified?
Richard Rohr’s twofold personal justification for adopting the practice of the Enneagram is exposed and evaluated.
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 8, 20218 min read
Can the Enneagram be Redeemed?
Can Christians use the Enneagram in a Christianised manner? Can we separate the practice of it from its theological and philosophical roots? Can the Enneagram be redeemed?
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 8, 20216 min read
Concerns with Christian Enneagram Teachers?
The previous post Is the Enneagram Christian? exposed and compared the theology of the Enneagram as expounded by the following teachers....
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 8, 202111 min read
Is the Enneagram Christian?
A theological Evaluation of the Enneagram. The core theological convictions of the so-called Christian versions of the Enneagram are exposed and compared with the Bible's teaching.
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Stuart McEwing
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Is the atonement cosmic child-abuse?
Some people strongly denounce the Penal Substitutionary Model of Atonement. One such person is Steve Chalke. He says, “…Penal...
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Stuart McEwing
Mar 19, 20212 min read
What is Penal Substitution Atonement?
It is often alleged that a Penal Substitutionary model of the Atonement (PSA) is convoluted and wrong-headed. Its critics allege “the...
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Stuart McEwing
Mar 9, 20214 min read
Was Penal Substitution Invented in the Reformation?
It is suggested by some theologians that the idea of a God who requires satisfaction for sin was invented in the feudal times of the...
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Stuart McEwing
Feb 23, 20215 min read
Can a loving God punish the innocent?
Unwilling to countenance the notion of an all-loving God punishing the innocent Christ for the sins of the world, some theologians have...
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 17, 20204 min read
Do Jewish beliefs about burial help establish the burial of Jesus?
There are a number of reasons to conclude the burial of Jesus is historical. Some of the more compelling are (1) it is it abundantly...
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Is unbelief a symptom of rebellion?
Stuart, Your claim that "unbelief is a symptom of rebellion" is absurd! Do you rebel against Allah, and Thor, and Shiva? Of course not!...
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Stuart McEwing
Oct 3, 20204 min read
Who designed the designer?
According to some God does not explain the beginning of the universe nor the appearance of design in the universe because this raises the further question, “Who designed the Designer?” Does positing a God as the creator and designer of the universe solve the problem of an infinite regress of causes?
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 26, 20203 min read
Are miracles possible? Part 3
With the case against miracles and their identification thoroughly undermined, it is pertinent to ask whether the methodological...
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Stuart McEwing
Jul 25, 20202 min read
Are miracles possible? Part 1
The biggest challenge to the historical case for Jesus’ resurrection is not historical in nature, but philosophical. This is the...
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