Round the Sphere Again: All Fun and Games

Name that Nick
Another of those mental_floss quizzes that I love so much.

Lighten Up
What color is Empire State Building right now? The lights, as you probably know, change for the occasion: red, white and blue for Flag Day and Independence Day, red and white for Canada Day. Tonight, they’re just plain white for nothing in particular.

You Say Fruit; I Say Vegetable
And we’re both right. Although I do have the Supreme Court on my side. (mental_floss Blog)

Game Plan
Theoretically, this is the shortest possible game of monopoly. Or so they say. Go ahead and watch; the game takes only 21 seconds of your time.

Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 20

What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.

You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.

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Article XVIII.

We affirm that the text of Scripture is to be interpreted by grammatico-historical exegesis, taking account of its literary forms and devices, and that Scripture is to interpret Scripture.

We deny the legitimacy of any treatment of the text or quest for sources lying behind it that leads to relativizing, dehistoricizing, or discounting its teaching, or rejecting its claims to authorship.

Claiming to Be Wise...

It seems that the first argument made here last fall by Godlessons, in which he argued that there is a contradiction between God’s omniscience (at least if that means knowing the future perfectly) and his omnipotence, is one put forward by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion. All this time I thought it was just a very silly argument made up by some unthinking dude on the internet when it turns out instead that it’s “a very weak challenge coming from a superior intellect,” to quote Greg Koukl.