John Scargy's Blog – February 2009 Archive (32)

Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found

Fragments of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Found

Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News

Feb. 27, 2009 -- Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding new light on ancient Egyptian history.

Found stored between two sheets of glass in the basement of the Museo Egizio in Turin, the fragments belong to a… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 28, 2009 at 2:25am — 3 Comments

TTHE NEW CHAT PROGRAM

The Chat program is located on the bottom of your screen. Here you can choose it and it will pop up.This is a new style chat program for ning and i thought we would try it out.

Added by John Scargy on February 27, 2009 at 7:43pm — 2 Comments

Reformers’ exegetical principle of sola scriptura owed much to humanism

The Protestant Reformers’ Readings of , with Modern Critical Response

Author: Galen Johnson

Although the Protestant Reformers’ exegetical principle of sola scriptura assumed that the meaning of scripture never changes, their approach to scripture in lectures and commentaries owed much to the innovative interpretive methods of humanism. According to the study of Paul Oskar Kristeller, Renaissance humanism was primarily concerned with how ideas were obtained and… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 27, 2009 at 1:48am — No Comments

Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

Reversing ecology reveals ancient environments

Stanford researchers with collaborators at Tel-Aviv University have now laid the foundation for opening a window to the past using a technique called "reverse ecology." The technique uses genomic data to examine metabolic networks and pulls out proxies for reconstructing bacterial environments millions of years in the past. The… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 26, 2009 at 8:29am — No Comments

Quodlibet Journal

Make sure you check out the RSS feed links i have for the Quodlibet Journal.They have some excellent articles.A few years ago they had some preterist articles by Randall Otto Ph.D.

Preterism and the Question of Heresy

Heresy is a serious charge, for if… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 25, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

"The Preterist Stopper"!..LOL..Theses guys make it so easy for us!!!

This is the latest in hyper-futurist exegesis in refuting the fulfilled view being posted on one of the largest and most theological minded forums..LOL..Sorry i can't help it.

***The Preterist Stopper!***

Here is a verse that the preterists cannot get around:

--=>And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 25, 2009 at 10:01am — 3 Comments

The Most Influential (and Self-Promotional) Christian Zionist You've Never Heard Of

Jimmy Carter-hating Mike Evans claims: "You can save American lives by helping me get on the major networks."

By Bill Berkowitz, IPS News. Posted February 24, 2009.

OAKLAND, California, Feb 22 (IPS) -- During a recent appearance on the Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" program, Mike Evans accused… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 24, 2009 at 5:32pm — 1 Comment

Royal seal impressions from the First Temple period discovered south of Jerusalem

Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2-23-09)

Royal seal impressions were discovered in excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Umm Tuba, in the southern hills of Jerusalem.

A large building that dates to the time of the First and Second Temples, in which there was an… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 24, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

Luke Austin Daugherty

Some great music i think everyone can enjoy. One of our new members Eddie Prather worked with Luke.

Luke Austin Daugherty

Added by John Scargy on February 23, 2009 at 4:51pm — No Comments

New Preterist web site

http://www.thepreteristpost.com/ By Patrick Stone

I have decided to develop a website and a series of youtube videos instead of blogging.

If you've read my blogs...please see my website

http://www.thepreteristpost.com/

or my video series on youtube (which you can find through the website).

The website takes a lot more 'baby steps' in understanding Revelation, so it… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 23, 2009 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks Starts A Radio Show

"IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM"

Dr. Kelly Nelson Birks

Each Monday from 4pm to 5pm, central standard time. Starting March 2, '09.

Live Streaming Audio, Bible exposition and live call-in show. Listen and participate at....

www.kcro.com

Good news for our Preterist community. I have… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 22, 2009 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Ex-Hyper-Futurist Recants

Why Obama Must Not Work With Republicans by Frank Schaeffer author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back.

Ever wonder why the Republican Party's foreign "policy" got so off the wall and bellicose? Want to know why we're in two wars? Want to know why so many evangelicals hate Obama… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 21, 2009 at 2:30pm — 9 Comments

Scuola di Atene

Scuola di Atene = School in Athens

This image is a detail from a mural by Raphael titled School in Athens. The entire mural depicts more than three dozen of the ancient world’s greatest philosophers, from Anaximander to Zeno. For a view of the full image with an image map describing many of the figures,… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 18, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Greek Lexicon Project

The Faculty of Classics is hosting a project for an Ancient Greek-English Lexicon of intermediate size, suitable for students, but also taking account of the most recent textual and philological scholarship.

We are not only replacing traditional archaic terminology with up-to-date English and omitting obsolete readings and interpretations,… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 18, 2009 at 4:30am — No Comments

Michael A. Fenemore Newsletter

If you don't subscribe to Micheal's newsletter,you should.

John

Dear Friends,

If you've ever tried sharing your views on preterism, no doubt, you've received a response similar to this: "Oh no, that can't be right; the Bible says, 'every eye will see him'" (Rev. 1:7).

That short and deadly comeback has killed many a discussion. The problem is there is no similar "one-liner" that provides a good answer. A good reply must cover some… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 17, 2009 at 7:23pm — No Comments

From Age to Age The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology Keith Mathison

From Age to Age

The Unfolding of Biblical Eschatology

Keith Mathison

P & R Publishing: Individual Title

Table of Contents:

http://www.prpbooks.com/toc/9780875527451.pdf

Sample Chapters:…

Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 17, 2009 at 2:19pm — 1 Comment

Americans skeptical about end of world

Posted on Feb 16, 2009 | by Staff

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Despite any popular doomsday predictions, most Americans aren't concerned that the end of the world will occur in their lifetimes, according to a new study by LifeWay Research.

Only 11 percent of 1,600 people who participated in a survey on the… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 17, 2009 at 6:47am — 4 Comments

A message to all members

A message to all members of Ning Network Creators

Hi there,

We'll be performing a scheduled maintenance on Friday evening from 12am-12:30am PST. During this time, your social network will be offline and will display your branded maintenance page.

Added by John Scargy on February 16, 2009 at 9:06pm — No Comments

Is Glenn Beck Crazy Or Is He Just Pretending?

Reported by Priscilla - February 15, 2009

There should be no doubt about Glenn Beck’s demographics as shown by his totally biased smear of Obama’s nominee for Deputy Attorney General. David Ogden is now the target of the Christian right; so, obviously Beck was doing his sacred duty in communicating to his congregation that he’s on their side.… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 15, 2009 at 5:37pm — 2 Comments

The Nicolaitans By Michael E. Day

The Nicolaitans

By Michael E. Day

www.BibleProphecyFulfilled.org

In the book of Revelation, Chapters two and three, Jesus grades the seven churches in Asia (modern day S.W. Turkey). Jesus’ assessments are not final grades, but rather midterms, since the churches still have time and opportunity to repent and improve. Do you want to know one thing Jesus hates?

Revelation 2:6:… Continue

Added by John Scargy on February 15, 2009 at 2:58am — No Comments