This is a response to “Did God punish us with the coronavirus pandemic? Was the vaccine a divine miracle?,” an editorial by Rabbi Ralph Mecklenburger, published on December 29th, 2020, in the Fort Worth Star Telegram. This editorial was based on Mecklenburger’s book Why Call It God: Theology for the Age of Science (Wipf&Stock, 2020).… Continue reading A Response to Rabbi Mecklenburger on Reducing God to Answer the Problem of Natural Evil
Category: Book Review
What the hell, Bart?
A Cursory Response to Bart Ehrman’s Audacious Claims about Heaven and Hell The short version of what Bart is saying is simply this: Neither Jesus, nor the Hebrew Bible he interpreted, endorsed the view that departed souls go to paradise or everlasting pain. https://time.com/5822598/jesus-really-said-heaven-hell Even though Bart Ehrman is capable of some impressive scholarship, let’s… Continue reading What the hell, Bart?