#Paul Copan

[humorwithatwist]

God on Trial (God Is...)

This post originated with a message at Arise Church. In this scene from God on Trial, Rabbi Akiba questions the goodness of God, concluding that, no, God has revealed that He is not good.  If you get the chance to watch this full scene, it’s powerful and emotional, made all the more palpable by the fact that it takes place at Auschwitz. Finding themselves in a horrible situation, the Jewish…

[wisdomfish]

Dr. Paul Copan - Is God a Moral Monster?

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Les cités Mayas Un monde perdu et retrouvé

Frederick Catherwood

Préface de Charles Minguet et Jean-Paul Duviols

Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1993, 96 pages , 29,5x25,5, ISBN 9782909808024

euro 30,00

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In 1839 Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens climbed the steps of the Mayan pyramids of the lost city, Copan. This text reconstructs the two expeditions they made into Mayan territory, with historical and architectural annotations, and Catherwood's illustrations for Stephens travel diaries.

09/03/24

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"It is what it is" Does Not Have to be Forever

“We shouldn’t make the mistake of moving automatically from “is” to “ought.”” — When God Goes to Starbucks: A Guide to Everyday Apologetics by Paul Copan Copan nailed me this morning.  Why didn’t I think of this?  We’ve all done is…look at a situation and sagely shake our head and say, “It is what it is.” (Like that is suppose to help matters.) Paul Copan’s quote reminds us that “It is what…

[liskadaebabbit]

Paul Copan think basketball is Biblical slavery | ft. Joshua Bowen

[biblesergeant]

Apologist FAILS to whitewash Elisha and the Two Bears | Dr. Paul Copan

[thesmolbutknowingclown]

Paul Copan coming in with PIPING hot tea:

“Many critics focus on efficiency, that it’s somehow immoral or un-Godlike to be less than efficient. But what theological reason compels is to assume that God must operate with maximum efficiency? Are we too Western in our assumptions about what God ought to do? Is God obliged to expedite his purposes? Must God’s purposes be less “clunky” to reveal his divinity? Don’t such questions take for granted knowing God’s purposes in detail?”

From Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God, p. 165-166

[jasonpjimenez]

Paul Copan Responds to Atrocities in OT

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Excerpt’s from Paul Copan’s “Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God,”

“By nature humans are worshippers; they’re slaves to what they worship, whether false gods or the true one.” 

“God is the author of life and has a rightful claim to it as Creator. Therefore, humans can make no demands on how long a person ought to live on earth.”

“Hell itself is the act of self-exclusion from God, the final act of self-assertion and control. If we want a divorce from God he will grant it. Hell isn’t a torture chamber of everlasting fire. Hell is ultimately a realm of self-separation and quarantine from God’s presence.”

“An individual, quite completely free from tension, anxiety, and conflict may be only a well-adjusted sinner who is dangerously maladjusted to God; it is infinitely better to be a neurotic sinner than a healthy-minded sinner... Healthy-mindedness may be a spiritual hazard that keeps an individual from turning to God precisely because he has no acute sense of God... Tension, conflict, and anxiety, even to the point of mental illness, may be a cross voluntarily carried in God’s service.” (Quoted by Copan from theologian Vernon Ground.) 

[kellyis4jc]

An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom!!!

We need to have biblical ethics in our lives. "An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom" shows us what we must do as we develop godly attitudes and behaviors. Biblical ethics encourages us to live a godly lifestyle for God.

As we study the Bible, we need to learn biblical ethics. By learning biblical ethics, we can live the godly lifestyle that God wants us to live. “An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom” shows what we need to do in our lives. It shows us the attitudes and the behaviors we need to develop. Biblical ethics cannot be taken out of our Christian lifestyles. We need to let…

[cmariottini]

Paul Copan on Divine Violence

Paul Copan on Divine Violence

Today’s guest post was written by Paul Copan. His essay is a review of my book Divine Violence and the Character of God. Paul is a professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University (Florida) and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics. He is author or editor of more than 40 books, including his well-known book, Is God a Moral Monster? Some Reflections on Claude…

[apologeticsawareness]

#ApologeticsWeek Here are the first results from our survey for Favorite Individual Apologist.Who is your favorite individual apologist?

[wisdomfish]

True For You But Not For Me

[extinctionatlas]

800-1000 Jaguar head from urn

800–1200 CE, pendand jaguar effigy, ancient art of central america

900-1250 Mayan sculpture  Posclásico Temprano

1220_1521 Codex Zouche-Nuttall

1500_1550 Landscape with a fight scene between a jaguar and a deer, wood choir stall, painting by Giovanni Francesco Caroto, in the Church of Santa Maria in Organo, Verona

1830s (late), cast probably before 1847 Jaguar Sleeping by Antoine-Louis Barye - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1834 Engraving of a jaguar or american panther (Felis onca) from THE NATURALIST's LIBRARY MAMMALIA VOL. II THE FELINAE.

1837 Jaguar Hunt, from ''Bresil, Columbie et Guyanes'' Ferdinand Denis and Cesar Famin

1840 or after, Antoine-Louis Barye A Jaguar Devouring a Deer - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1850–1900 Textile (USA), cotton; 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in.) Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment; 1975-60-15

1850, Jaguar Devouring a Hare by Antoine-Louis Barye

1855 Rider Attacked by a Jaguar Eugene Delacroix

1866 - 1939, Jaguar by Bernard Willem Wierink

1868-1906 Paul Cézanne after Antoine-Louis Barye

1874-1910, John Macallan Swan, Study of a Jaguar

1881-1894 photograph by Alfred Percival Maudslay, Jaguar's head on top of stairway; Eastern Court, Copan, Honduras

1890 Jaguar, from the Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen&Ginter Cigarettes - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1900-1920 Alfred Percival Maudslayc. Photo of 2 women sitting on jaguar pelt blankets

1910, Henri Rousseau, jaguar attacking a horse

1910, Negro attacked by a jaguar, Henri Rousseau

1915, Colonel Roosevelt's first South American jaguar killed

1938 Octavio Medellin's photo of Large Stone Jaguar. Temple of the Jaguar. Chichen Itza, Yucatan

1947, Orovida Pisarro

Life Magazine 1959

1968, 3-year old female jaguar standing amidst plaster she pawed off wall in frustration at close confinement, Boston ZOO

1990 The jaguar’s speech by J. Borges

2011

Tomb Raider

Lucas Lorenzo, Old Men and Jaguar Dance (Danza de los Viejitos y del Tigre)

weird deepfakes?

2019 Dentist is accused of illegally killing more than a THOUSAND jaguars as part of illegal poaching gang that has been operating in Brazil

2020

Jaguar amerykański  (Panthera onca) – gatunek ssaka z podrodziny panter (Pantherinae) w rodzinie kotowatych (Felidae), zaliczany do wielkich kotów i jedyny przedstawiciel rodzaju Panthera spotykany w Amerykach. Trzeci co do wielkości przedstawiciel swej rodziny po tygrysie i lwie, największy zaś na półkuli zachodniej. Jego zasięg występowania rozciąga się od południowego zachodu USA i Meksyku przez Amerykę Środkową na południe do Paragwaju i północnej Argentyny.

Należy do gatunków bliskich zagrożenia wyginięciem. Jego liczebność obniża się. Zagraża mu fragmentacja środowiska jego życia.

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[hecallsmehischild]

Unfreezing The Research

I just wanna say a thing that I think is important to know. Maybe some people intuitively know this, but, I didn’t and it froze me up for a long time.

When you wanna understand about a thing, but you don’t know its exact title, you do not have to figure out the exact thing, and your resource doesn’t have to align 100% with what you want.

For example. I’m currently pursuing a couple of topics, one of them centered on learning more about historical and cultural context of the Bible, and one of them centered on figuring out what happened in a psychologically abusive situation I experienced.

In the first search, some books have springboarded me into what I needed, but started off on a topic I wouldn’t have considered relevant to me and I stumbled onto the book by accident (Divorce and Remarriage in the Church by David Instone-Brewer). Others have been relevant but were only halfway satisfactory, giving me some good nuggets of information with a sour taste in my mouth (Is God A Moral Monster? by Paul Copan). Others were dead on what I was looking for (Case for Christ by Lee Strobel) but I still want more. I have high hopes for one coming in the mail about the battles of the Old Testament (Battles of the Bible: A military history of ancient Israel by Chaim Herzog). The 1-star reviews made me laugh, they were mostly by people who were angry that the book didn’t acknowledge the miracles of God. So what? I wonder, amused. Even if it doesn’t, does that mean this book lacks good information for me to mine? It just means these guys are looking at the situation with a perspective other than mine, and I need that to inform my research too. I’ve begun looking at books as being full of good nuggets and puzzle pieces, some pointing me to other books that are just as useful. Indeed, I’m finding good springboards even in 1-star reviews of books I’m furious with (like the 1-star review section of Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer). These people sometimes offer recommendations of better informed writings, which is actually how I found the book I’m waiting on.

In the second search, I started off with books that saw me and the situation I was in so clearly that it hurt. Healing from Hidden Abuse by Shannon Thomas, I Hate You Don’t Leave Me by Jerold J Kreisman and Hal Straus. Melody Beatte’s Codependency books, the various Boundaries books by Cloud & Townsend. For a while, I was attracted to the title Psychopath Free by Jackson Mackenzie, but wasn’t sure if that was exactly what I needed. Still, I gave it a try. I found it wasn’t exactly what I needed, but gave me a lot of information about myself, and even though it wasn’t a perfect match to my situation, it gave me more understanding about that situation as well. Now I want to research a whole lot more about “cluster B personality disorders.”

What I’m trying to say here is, while I was absolutely frozen and not sure what direction to turn for information because I didn’t know the exact labels of the things I needed, I went nowhere at all. Now I’m flinging out tendrils in all directions and using nuggets from books to springboard my next choices and direction to look. So if you’re ever frozen on your topic of choice, take a leap. The more you consume, the more you will develop a discernment for what is good info and bad, what is well reasoned and what is not, what fits your situation and what passes it over completely.

Good luck.