Abortion, Lucifer, and Galatians vs. Romans

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Hi everyone, the teaching semester has ended, I am in grading mode, and getting ready for a seven-month sabbatical to work on books on the Roman Empire in the third century and a theology of Jude/2 Peter.

Oh boy, the hard questions do not stop coming at the ANTWA podcast. This week Tom and I discuss:

• Is abortion ever justified?

• Does the Devil want to be forgiven?

• Does Romans 8 contradict Galatians 4?

Whoa, okay, this podcast got A LOT of negative feedback, I mean the full inquisition. Some criticism, I understand, but some was undeserved. I’ll have more to say on Tuesday for members of the Aviary.

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From the back catalogue, here is 12 minutes of me discussing the Most Disputed Verse in the Bible: 1 Timothy 2:12

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David Ould - Dear American Friends, here’s what I think you need to know about my Australian Friends.

Being less polarised mitigates against extremes. ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas recently argued, “we are the anti-America. Where, in the US, people are toxically polarised and unable to see politics through any other prism than their own partisan lens, in Australia our passions are lower but so are our biases.” We have fringe parties but they don’t ever get large number of seats.

Robyn Whitaker - Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking.

So let’s ask the provocative question: is Donald Trump the antichrist? The short answer is no, because there is no one antichrist. To claim that the number 666 refers to a specific person is to misunderstand the symbolic and polyvalent nature of the ancient biblical texts. The whole point of Revelation is that evil becomes incarnate in systems and regimes that transcend any individual. Trump, however, may be an antichrist — that is, part of a much larger phenomenon. That phenomenon, I suggest, is Christian nationalism.