3 LA Teachers Removed Over Choice of Black Heroes - ABC News

Would you think of OJ Simpson, RuPaul, and Dennis Rodman as examples of Black Heroes? I wouldn't. Three LA Teachers however apparently would and they have been removed from their classrooms. Read the article below.

3 LA Teachers Removed Over Choice of Black Heroes - ABC News

Atheist Liberals More Intelligent than Religious Conservatives, Say Scientists

A little while ago I came across an article hypothesizing that Atheists Liberals are more intelligent than religious conservatives using IQ Tests!

From the article: “Religion is a byproduct of humans' tendency to perceive agency and intention as causes of events, to see "the hands of God" at work behind otherwise natural phenomena. "Humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid," says Kanazawa. This innate bias toward paranoia served humans well when self-preservation and protection of their families and clans depended on extreme vigilance to all potential dangers. "So, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to go against their natural evolutionary tendency to believe in God, and they become atheists."

Young adults who identify themselves as "not at all religious" have an average IQ of 103 during adolescence, while those who identify themselves as "very religious" have an average IQ of 97 during adolescence.”

I took three IQ Tests when I was 17-18 years old. My highest score was 114...100 was supposed to be average. IQ tests prove nothing but how close you can think like the person who made the test. I also think that the article makes no sense. The article is wrong. Half of the population is neither Atheistic nor Liberal. The thought that some people are unable to believe agrees with the Bible. It is also funny to see atheists trying to account for religion from the standpoint of evolution and then trying to argue that more people don't believe because we are evolving. Really pathetic. I have yet to see any understanding or evidence for a genetic mutation affecting how people's minds work.

Atheist Liberals More Intelligent than Religious Conservatives, Say Scientists

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Is 1 John 5:10 Relevant to the Ordo Salutis and 1 John 5:1/2:29, and 4:7?

There is an anonymous response to James White's discussion of 1 John 5:1 and other passages regarding the order of salvation - "ordo salutis".

 An evidently anti-Reformed textual critic has posted a brief criticism of using 1 John 5:1 as a text relevant to the ordo salutis and in particular to the relationship of saving faith and regeneration (though both terms appear in the text). Anyone who knows the identity of this blogger please let me know, I'd be interested in knowing. I have seen his material linked on the Evangelical Textual Criticism list. In any case, here is my response.

This video shows how careful and thorough a scholar James White is. I agree with his analysis. It fits the whole testimony of scripture.

Is 1 John 5:10 Relevant to the Ordo Salutis and 1 John 5:1/2:29, and 4:7?

Atheism is Dead: Bart Ehrman’s Problem, part 1

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Mariano has launched a new series of articles again considering the work of  Bart Ehrman but this time juxtaposed with other scholars

Hereinafter, we will consider occurrences at the Greer-Heard Forum of 2008 AD.
The forum’s topic was the reliability of New Testament manuscripts as pointers to the original text.

The lectures and discussions primarily featured Dan Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary) and Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) with contributions by Michael Holmes (Bethel University), Dale Martin (Yale University), David Parker (Birmingham University) and William Warren (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary).

I will be gleaning from the reports of the forum written by Ed Komoszewski from the theology blog Parchment and Pen; part 1 and part 2.

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This is good!

Atheism is Dead: Bart Ehrman’s Problem, part 1