Benjamin L. Corey's Blog, page 9
March 21, 2017
Lessons From Judas: Learning Good Remorse from Bad Remorse
I think every character in the Bible has worthwhile things we can learn from, and Judas is no different.
March 16, 2017
No, The Bible Doesn’t Say The Earth Is Only 6,000 Years Old
Fundamentalists of the “young earth” variety will often claim that the earth is just 6,000 years old. Their reasoning? The Bible says so. In fact, I’ve been following Ken Ham lately, and some of the stuff being put out by Answers in Genesis (Ken has blocked me on Facebook, FWIW) to see if they’ve had [Read More...]
March 14, 2017
Rethinking Judas: Maybe He Wasn’t A Bad Guy, But Was Just Like You And Me
Growing up we learn that Judas was the disciple who betrayed Jesus, and that’s true. What is also true is that Judas, I believe, is profoundly misunderstood. The truth is, while he did screw over Jesus, I don’t think Judas was a bad guy– I just think he made a tragic miscalculation, like we all do [Read More...]
March 13, 2017
5 Things You’re Reading, When You’re Reading The Bible
I love the Bible. It’s why I spent eight years of my life in seminary, why I’ve served as a church pastor even when they couldn’t afford to pay me, and is why even now I end up finding Greek flashcards in the most random places in my house. But my love for the Bible [Read More...]
March 3, 2017
The Wicked Idolatry of Pat Robertson (Jesus, and ONLY Jesus, Is Our Hope)
Pat Robertson has said some crazy things over the years. Some of them are amusing. Some of them are dangerous… And some of them are pure idolatrous. The other day on the 700 club, Pat said something that stepped far outside of any legitimate form of Christianity, and strayed so far into idolatry, that he might [Read More...]
March 2, 2017
Things You (Might) Mistakenly Believe About The Book of Revelation
If you grew up in Evangelicalism/Fundamentalism, you probably grew up with a doom-and-gloom view of the future and “end times.” Me? I grew up with the whole deal: raptures, tribulations, the Antichrist, and even warnings that those things we first called “barcodes” might actually be the mark of the beast. End times belief is so [Read More...]
March 1, 2017
Yes, What Israel Is Doing To Palestinians Is Actually Genocide.
In the Israel/Palestine conflict, is Israel guilty of genocide against the Palestinians? Yes– absolutely. The other day I wrote a short piece on why the Bible does not command us to blindly stand with the modern state of Israel, and one of the points I made is that Israel is guilty of genocide. There were [Read More...]
February 27, 2017
No, The Bible Doesn’t Command We “Stand With Israel”
When reporting or lamenting over the gross human rights violations and genocide by the modern state of Israel against the Palestinian people, many Christians immediately freak the heck out. In fact, I am often told that I am “not a Christian” because I dare criticize the state of Israel’s behavior, as if blind support of [Read More...]
February 23, 2017
Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle? Or Have You Been Reading The Bible Wrong?
Have you been reading the Bible wrong this whole time? Probably– but I’ll try to help sort that out for you. One of the most famous sayings of Jesus is “It is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” [Read More...]
February 17, 2017
Biblical Salvation: How It’s Possible To Be A Christian And Still Not Be “Saved”
Growing up evangelical, one of the primary questions we were taught to ask strangers was: “Are you saved?” Or, better yet: “If you died tonight do you know where you’d go?” The concept of being saved was pretty simple, really: You’re a sinner headed for hell, Jesus died to take your punishment, and if you [Read More...]
