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• The Good Book Blog

  Subordination of God the Son to the Father

  William Lane Craig — July 03, 2015

  I have spent the last eight years attending a oneness church, however, after listening to your defenders class, as well as Dr. David Pawson's teachings on the trinity, I have been convinced that oneness theology is heresy. Most of my questions regarding Trinitarians have been answered and the theology is beginning to make a lot of sense as I listen to yours and Pawson's teachings. The one issue I have a hard time understanding is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit being co-equal as you teach in your defenders class. If that is that case, what do Trinitarians do with 1 Corinthians 15:20-28? Is Jesus subordinate to the Father or co-equal? ...

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  En lo Esencial Unidad, En lo Dudoso Libertad, En Todo Caridad o Amor / Unity in Necessary Things; Liberty in Doubtful Things; Charity in All Things

  Octavio Esqueda — July 02, 2015

  Recientemente las palabras diversidad, tolerancia y racismo se han convertido en temas centrales de nuestra sociedad. Muchos sucesos a nivel nacional, local y personal me han hecho reflexionar acerca de la importancia que como seguidores de Cristo tenemos para aportar luz a una sociedad que enfrenta realidades a las que en ocasiones no sabe cómo responder. También he notado que algunos cristianos están confundidos acerca de lo que es realmente importante y esencial en nuestra fe y qué es lo secundario en lo que podemos aceptar diferencias con gracia y amor. Es necesario que en estos tiempos podamos claramente hablar la verdad en amor a todos los que nos rodean para poder ser buenos embajadores de Cristo ...

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  William Beauchamp—On the Urgency of Christian Apologetics for Our Time

  Doug Geivett — July 01, 2015

  Here are some words of exhortation that have special application to the events and conditions of our present tumultuous age: ... But whence, in this eventful day, can we draw the principles of caution, prudence and wisdom, if not from the Gospel of Jesus Christ? And can we with diligence seek these principles, and with confidence exercise them, unless we have firm faith in the truth of our Holy Religion?

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  The Dead Sea Scrolls in Los Angeles

  Kenneth Way — June 30, 2015

  The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the California Science Center offers a historic opportunity to see artifacts and manuscripts from what is arguably the most significant archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. The Dead Sea Scrolls are precious to Jews and Christians of all backgrounds because of what they contribute to our understanding of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the beliefs and practices of ancient Judaism and the cultural background of the New Testament.

• The Good Book Blog

  Dealing with Physical Ailment

  William Lane Craig — June 26, 2015

  Dear Dr. Craig, thank you for your great work at Reasonable Faith. My question is one borne from a sense of sadness and resentment towards God for His seemingly indifferent attitude to my pain. I have struggled for years with bad eyesight and floaters in my eyes, (especially my left eye), and it really does affect my daily activities like reading and writing etc. I have been praying almost constantly for healing and restoration but have been met with a devastating silence. I happen to know that you yourself suffer from a muscular problem, and would like to hear your personal journey through that. Can you relate to my problems? Have you ever asked God to heal you? Did you feel bitter when He did not? How did you continue believing in His goodness and love? ...

• Biola News

  Biola Baseball Signs on Five-year-old as Youngest Player

  Baseball team comes together to support local boy suffering from mitochondrial disease

  Joclyn Kirton — June 25, 2015

  History was made on April 18, 2015 when the Biola University baseball team announced the signing of its youngest player, five-year-old Colton...

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  The Emotions of Jesus, Part 4: Joy

  Thaddeus Williams — June 24, 2015

  As we learn emotions from Jesus, not only does our blood start to boil (see Part 2) and our stomachs turn (see Part 3), he also shows our hearts how to beat with real joy. There is a stereotype floating around which says that Jesus and the faith he represents are about cold-hearted duty, doing the right thing at the expense of our happiness. There are enough grim-faced moralistic systems out that brandish the name of “Christianity” to keep the stereotype alive. But they have more in common with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant than with the kingdom of Jesus. The day after he stormed the Temple, Jesus returns to the same Temple courts to announce that his kingdom is like a big party, and everyone is invited; not a boarding school, not a boot camp, not a prison chain gang, but a party.

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  Crossing the Heath with William Paley (1743-1805)

  Doug Geivett — June 22, 2015

  On May 25, 1805 the Christian church lost one of its ablest and most-remembered defenders. William Paley—Anglican minister, professor, and author—is permanently associated with the analogy of a watchmaker and the God of personal theism. He wrote that “the contrivances of nature . . . are not less evidently mechanical, not less evidently contrivances, not less accommodated to their end or suited to their office, than are the most perfect productions of human ingenuity” (Natural Theology, 1802). Paley mined the riches of biology for samples of such contrivance. In his day, the state of scientific knowledge in the field of biology permitted comparatively easy inference to the appearance of teleology in the natural world. Critics today forget this. The “demise” of Paley’s design argument for the existence of God is credited especially to a development that was to happen some 60 years later—the emergence of the new theory of evolution, beginning with the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859) ...

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  Work and Worship

  William Lane Craig — June 19, 2015

  Dr. Craig, I wanted to ask you a question as someone who is simply curious about Christianity. Can you explain what I consider to be the two "W"s of life under your God. These are work and worship ...

• Biola News

  Dr. Bethany Miller Named Associate Athletic Director

  Head Women's Basketball coach becomes full-time athletic administrator.

  Neil Morgan — June 18, 2015

  Biola Head Women’s Basketball Coach Dr. Bethany Miller will transition roles within the athletic department this summer, necessitating her...

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  The Emotions of Jesus, Part 3: Compassion

  Thaddeus Williams — June 15, 2015

  If we peer underneath Jesus’ table-flipping rage at the Temple (explored in Part 2), we find a still deeper emotion to reflect. Matthew’s account tells us that immediately after protesting the poor-oppressing, God-mocking Temple system, “the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them" (Matthew 21:14). What a beautiful moment. In it we see that Jesus was outraged not in spite of His care for people but precisely because of it. The very people marginalized and trampled under the religious power structure are brought into the spotlight and elevated by Jesus. (He has a way of doing that.) He didn’t take anything from them or treat them like chumps in a captive market. He gave them vision and sound bodies. He treated them like the intrinsically valuable human beings they each were—and all for free.

• Biola Magazine

  Biola Changes Lives

  An investment in Biola can make a lifelong impact — just ask these students, alumni and supporters

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  “Biola University truly is unique. There is no other school that offers what it offers in the area of philosophy, apologetics, so many other...

• Biola Magazine

  The Shovels in my Office and the Excitement in my Heart

  Rick Bee — June 14, 2015

  Are you as excited as I am? I look through the amazing stories in this issue of Biola Magazine and I am overwhelmed by God’s provision and...

• Biola Magazine

  Called to Stewardship

  The biblical principles guiding Biola’s campaign

  Adam Morris — June 14, 2015

  God, Giving and Asking at Biola University. That’s the title of a booklet we’ve been sharing with alumni, parents and friends who are considering...

• Biola Magazine

  How to Help

  Six ways to get involved in The Campaign for Biola University

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  Biola University was built on the prayers, generosity and support of people like you, who saw the vision of a school endeavoring to carry out a...

• Biola Magazine

  Biola for the World

  Taking Biola’s biblically centered resources to the ends of the earth

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  For as long as Biola has existed, it has been an institution with an outward focus, looking for ways to bless people around the world with...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 4: Extend Biola’s Global Reach

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  Never before have more opportunities been available for Biola to realize its vision of being a university of global impact. Technological advances...

• Biola Magazine

  Front and Center

  A guide to Biola’s three academic centers

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  As part of the university’s goal to attract and develop outstanding Christian scholars and to have a more pronounced impact in the broader world...

• Biola Magazine

  Giving Voice to the Wisdom of Jesus

  Three years in, Biola’s Center for Christian Thought is seeking to contribute to a renaissance of the evangelical mind

  Evan Rosa — June 14, 2015

  Ideas are powerful. Perhaps they’re the most powerful thing in the world. But ideas also have a weakness: They need a voice. A voice to actualize...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 3: Influence the World of Ideas

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  Biola’s ambition is to become a global center for Christian thought — an institution that cultivates and disseminates influential scholarship,...

• Biola Magazine

  A New Era for the Sciences

  Why focusing on science, technology and health is a key priority of The Campaign for Biola University

  Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  Throughout history, the discoveries and applications of science — electricity, DNA, penicillin, the mapping of the human genome — have changed the...

• Biola Magazine

  A Transformed Campus

  Jason Newell — June 14, 2015

  Click for full-size map Over the past five years, Biola and its supporters have invested tens of millions of dollars to transform our La Mirada...

• Biola Magazine

  Campaign Priority 2: Provide Facilities That Inspire Learning

  Biola Magazine Staff — June 14, 2015

  As Biola’s student body has grown — more than doubling in size over the last two decades alone — so too have the physical needs of the burgeoning...

• Biola Magazine

  Finding Family

  Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  As he counted down the days to his graduation in May 2015, biochemistry major Marcus Olivares-Perez (’15) marveled at the many ways Biola had...

• Biola Magazine

  Truth-Telling in Washington D.C.

  David Baxter, Brett McCracken — June 14, 2015

  As Katie Watson (’11) reflects on her Biola experience she remembers a professor who said, “Do you want to be a Christian journalist? Then be the...