Logos Give's Back

Logos Bible Software has a new contest going in an effort to publicize their blog. I've been using Logos for over a year now, and I must say that it saved my rear in Advanced Greek Exegesis last semester. Unfortunately, I didn't have a great Intro Greek professor at the extension center where I started, so I didn't have the foundation that I needed. The languages tools help you parse until the cows come home.
I know that there are other software packages out there that might do the job equally effectively, but I don't use those, I use Logos. (Here's where I smile and hold up the box with the Logos logo next to my face;)

P.S. - This just in - Logos users are proven to effectively reduce their cholesterol by 57% over those who use rival Bible software packages.

Greer-Heard Wrap-Up

Dan Wallace and Ed Komoszewski have done an excellent job summarizing and reviewing the 2008 Greer-Heard Point Counterpoint Forum which took place here on campus April 4-5. Ed gives detailed analysis of day 1 and day 2 (WARNING! Beer reference in the first paragraph! If you're on campus, our web security might not let you access this website under the 'alcohol/tobacco' prohibition;) I really enjoyed Dan's review of the weekend's festivities. Here is the last paragraph:

"A good half dozen people came up to me during the conference, mentioning that this conference would determine whether they would continue to have confidence in the Bible or not. Some had come from hundreds of miles away, even thousands. All of them said that because of the conference their confidence that we had today essentially the word of God was bolstered."

This is what hosting these conferences is all about.

p.s. If you didn't get a chance to attend the conference this year, you can purchase the audio here.

Is this the best they've got?

Is this really the best argument they have? I am amazed that people can be so blind to the truth. Watch this video and see for yourselves. This is empty rhetoric at its best.



Here's a couple of observations:

1. It is not hard to know when life begins. Science has a few clear cut criteria for determining this and a human embryo meets all of these criteria (growth, metabolism, response, etc).

2. I wonder if they would beat around the bush this much if they were at a pro-choice rally?

3. Christians have dug themselves into a hole on this one. The fact that there are even debates about this in Christian denominations is frightening (Clinton just had to bring up the fact that she's a Methodist).

4. Potential life?

5. And last but not least, my favorite quote:

"Our task should be in this pluralistic diverse life of ours in this nation, that individuals must be entrusted to make this profound decision. Because the alternative would be such an entrusion of government authority, that it would be very difficult to sustain in our kind of open society."

This one is just too easy. I could really talk about just this one quote all day, but I've got to get to some homework. If I were a better blogger, I would look up another quote where Sen. Clinton says the exact opposite in another context (but I'm not).

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