9
Oct
2015
DBTS Journal Goes Online in November
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If you love to read what theologians write (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?), you’ll soon have access to the full contents of the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal on our website. For twenty years, the DBSJ has made a significant contribution to conservative biblical scholarship. Under the leadership of founding editor Bill Combs, the Journal... Read More
9
Oct
2015
Beginning of the School Year
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As summer turns to fall, the weather begins to cool, and the leaves begin to change color. With the change in season comes another school year, and with it, some changes too. This year, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary welcomed several new students to its student body. The new students represent multiple States and come from... Read More
5
Oct
2015
The Pope’s Problem: A Reprise
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The pope is finally gone and I am happier for it. He has practically no redeeming qualities and has left a trail of carnage from the moment he arrived until the moment he left. Make no mistake: he is the incarnation and personification of the worst sort of evil imaginable. And he’s worse than any pope... Read More
1
Oct
2015
What About Life on Mars?
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The scientific community is abuzz this week with the announcement that liquid water has been confirmed on Mars. Of course scientists have long known that water is abundant in our universe (including on Mars), but specific evidence of a stable supply of liquid water has been lacking. It seems that we now have evidence of... Read More
29
Sep
2015
Interview with Dr. Tim Miller – DBTS Professor
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How do you answer the big questions people have about God? Tim Miller couldn’t get that nagging thought out of his head during college. So he began sharing the gospel with students at a nearby state university on Friday nights. Years later, Tim tackled the “big questions” head-on, earning his PhD in apologetics at Westminster... Read More
22
Sep
2015
No We Are Not Together
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With all of the hullabaloo this week over the visit of antichrist (not THE antichrist, mind you, but surely one who most overtly and offensively epitomizes John’s general description of the spirit of antichrist), it is a delight to point our readers to a free eCopy of one of the better treatments of this topic on... Read More
21
Sep
2015
Hebrews and the revelation of the Son
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Have you ever noticed that the writer of Hebrews never directly quotes from Jesus?[1] Of course, the New Testament epistles do not contain many quotations directly from Jesus. This is understandable in the case of Paul who probably never met the pre-resurrected Christ. Though even in Paul’s case, he does reference the words of Jesus... Read More
14
Sep
2015
Is Atheism a Religion?
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What is religion? Most of us think we know what it is, but when we actually try to define it we run into some difficulty. Perhaps the most common definitions focus on beliefs—a religion is belief in God or spiritual beings. But several systems typically considered religions either do not include belief in spiritual beings... Read More
8
Sep
2015
A Couple of New Books on Those “Troublers of Churches”
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“In America, Baptists were once the ultimate religious outsiders. The Puritans called them ‘the troublers of churches in all places’ and banned them from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. Unwilling to submit to official state churches, or to baptize infants, Baptists found themselves reviled, fined, and sometimes brutalized by authorities in England and in... Read More
29
Aug
2015
Ethics or Theological Subscription as the Ground of Functional Christian Fellowship?
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A couple of weeks ago Union University made news by practicing secondary separation (or at least what fundamentalists have been pummeled over the last 70 years for practicing under that label): they broke fellowship with an organization of professing believers—the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities [CCCU]—because the Council had failed to censure two member... Read More