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DID GOD LOSE A BATTLE IN MOAB? An Examination of 2 Kings 3:27
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction I came across a short video on YouTube that had the provocative title “When the God of Israel Was Defeated By Another God.”[1] In this video, one Dan McClellan, a Mormon, discusses 2 Kings 3, which, he says, “tells a fascinating story where the God of Israel promises victory in a military invasion of another country but is unable to deliver …
“OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN WE FOLLOW SCHOLARS WHO DECEIVE”: Absurd Explanations for the Supposed Abrupt Ending of the Gospel According to Mark
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. It is difficult to be surprised any longer at the uncritical alacrity with which evangelical scholars and apologists follow the unsubstantiated claims of liberal scholars that undermine the credibility of the New Testament. From late dating of the Gospel books to literary dependence to Markan priority to extreme late dating of the Gospel According to John and embracing of the error-ridden Nestle-Aland …
SIXTH HOUR (JOHN 19:14) OR THIRD HOUR (MARK 15:25)? An Intractable Discrepancy Solved
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Skeptics bring many charges of contradictions against the Bible. Most of them are trivial and easily answered. Others require more careful analysis, and there are a few that seem to stump Evangelicals, who seem unable to come up with a convincing answer[1]. One of these latter is the apparent contradiction between Mark and John regarding the time of day at which …
The Westcott-Hort Theory Reexamined: Master of Divinity Thesis by John Tors
© 1996, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Please note – The following link is to a temporary PDF file of John Tors, Master of Divinity Thesis, a clear text copy will be posted at a later date: The Westcott-Hort Theory Reexamined Master of Divinity Thesis by John Tors
JESUS MADE A MISTAKE – ACCORDING TO THE CRITICAL TEXT: Another Example of the Toxicity of Mainstream Textual Criticism
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. THE PROBLEM In 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, Paul writes the following: “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Christ’s death for our sins and His burial are clearly foretold …
REVISITING MY REFUTATION OF WACHTEL’S THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BYZANTINE TEXT: Is the Data Not Adequate?
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction Until the printing press was invented in the Western world in the mid-15th century, all writings (including the New Testament books) could be reproduced only by copying by hand (a handwritten copy is known as a manuscript). Since no copyist (“scribe”) is perfect, differences at points in the text (“variants”) are found among the extant manuscripts[1]. The attempt to recover the …
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THREE GOOD REASONS TO LEARN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK
© 2020, by Sonya Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction There are many different translations of the Bible into English, some of which are very good (e.g. the KJV, NKJV, and EMTV).[1] What is better even than the best translation is the text in the original language.[2] You can, of course, gain an excellent understanding of the Bible by reading an English translation, but learning New Testament Greek does provide certain …
“HENDERSON HAS SCORED FOR CANADA!” What the 40th Anniversary of the Canada/USSR Summit Series Can Tell Us about the Gospel Books
Today, September 28, 2012, is the fortieth anniversary of Game 8, the final and deciding game of the 1972 Canada/USSR hockey “Summit Series.” It was an event that captured the attention of Canadians as very few other things ever have. Hockey was our game, the one thing we did better than anyone else in the world, and the one thing that touched the lives of all Canadians from coast to coast. We were the best, no question. For a long time, other nations were no match even for our lowly amateurs[1]. But …
CHEATING THEMSELVES THROUGH PHILOSOPHY: A Demolition of “The Rights and Wrongs of Alan Dershowitz” in Claremont Review of Books (Fall, 2005)
As a salvo in the debate over natural law versus revelation, the article “The Rights and Wrongs of Alan Dershowitz” by Hadley Arkes, published in the Fall 2005 issue of Claremont Review of Books[1], is a noteworthy contribution. It is noteworthy, however, because it does such a good job of destroying its own argument for natural law. And it does it so thoroughly, albeit unintentionally, that it would seem to make it difficult to take such arguments seriously henceforth. There are two main parts to this article. The first, which takes up …
HOW NOT TO DO HERMENEUTICS: A Response to Daniel Mann’s “Jesus: The ‘Begotten of the Father’” (Christian Research Journal 34(2), 2011, pp.8-9)
The writer to the Hebrews, in demonstrating the superiority of the Son of God to angels, quotes Psalm 2:7, saying For to which of the angels did He ever say: “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? (Hebrews 1:5). In this CRJ article, Daniel Mann calls this a “controversial verse” and a “problem”, pointing out that this verse suggests to some that Jesus is ‘begotten’ in the sense of being created and having a beginning in time … Many cults understand this verse, and others like it, to affirm that …
THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE: An Explanation and a Response to Creation Ministries International’s Problematic View
Creation Ministries International’s article “The inspiration of Scripture comes in various forms” contains problematic errors, including slavish adherence to the Masoretic text, uncritical acceptance of the claim that the Gospel books are of the bioi genre (an idea being used to destroy Biblical inerrancy), and the claim that the Pentateuch is the “final form” updated by multiple editors.
“THAT’S JUST YOUR INTERPRETATION!”: A Response to Dr. Thomas Howe on Understanding the Bible
Univocal propositional statements cannot be “interpreted” to mean something other than what the words and syntactical construction convey. If we can understand such statements made by people even though we are not infallible, we can understand God’s propositional statements in the Bible.
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John was born in Montreal to Christian parents from Hungary and moved to Toronto when he was nine years old. In his teen years, he began to explore how we know that Christianity is true, sparking… Read More
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In university a Christian friend asked Katherine, “Do you think that God created the world in six days or six billion years?”. “I’m not sure, but I suspect it is six days because that is what the Bible says,” Katherine replied. Later… Read More
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“…from His fullness we have received grace upon grace…” Twenty-five years ago, Lord Jesus opened the eyes of my heart to His Glory. It has been a long journey since my childhood in the Middle East where I was born. I had lots of questions before I … Read More
DID GOD LOSE A BATTLE IN MOAB? An Examination of 2 Kings 3:27
© 2023, by John Tors. All Rights Reserved. Introduction I came across a short video on YouTube that had the provocative title “When the God of Israel Was Defeated By Another God.”[1] In this video, one Dan McClellan, a Mormon, discusses 2 Kings 3, which, he says, “tells a fascinating story where the God of Israel promises victory in a military invasion of another country but is unable to deliver[…]
