Rob Bowman
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Rob Bowman is the director of research at the evangelical Institute for Religious Research[1].
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[edit] "Jonah's message to Nineveh was not a predictive prophecy, but a judgment warning"
- "Jonah's message to Nineveh was not a predictive prophecy, but a judgment warning. Jonah was not predicting that Nineveh would be overthrown or destroyed in 40 days. He was warning Nineveh that it was subject to judgment. As a warning, the threatened consequence was conditional. It is like a parent telling a child, 'I'm going to count to three and then you're getting spanked!' The whole point of the counting to three is to give the child an opportunity to repent. Likewise, the whole point of the 40-day warning was to give Nineveh an opportunity to repent. Jonah himself understood this, because after Nineveh repented and was spared, he went off to sulk and complained that he knew God was planning on being merciful to Nineveh (Jonah 4:1-2). You say that Jonah tried to avoid going to Nineveh because he was certain they would not repent, but the narrative tells us otherwise: Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh because he realized God was intent on sparing Nineveh and Jonah didn't want to be a party to their salvation. The bottom line is that the book of Jonah does not give us an example of a 'prophecy' that did not come true. One cannot cite Jonah as precedent for a divinely inspired prediction failing to come to pass, because Jonah's message to Nineveh was not a prediction." [2]
[edit] Online writings
[edit] Exchanges
[edit] October 2011
- Cfr For Ldsfaq: Joseph'S Translation Of The Gold Plates
- Orthodox Christians Are Atheists - A standard Mormon criticism
- Holy Ghost: "One Of The Sons Of Our Father And Our God"
[edit] September 2011
- Spirit Bodies - Intriguing description in Gospel Principles
- Trinitarians Do Not View God As An Abstraction!
- Is The Spirit In 1 Kings 22:19-23 Embodied Or Incorporeal?
[edit] July 2011
[edit] June 2011
[edit] May 2011
- It's Too Sacred - Is this explanation overused - "Is it possible that Mormons too easily appeal to sacredness to rationalize lack of information on a wide variety of issues?"
[edit] April 2011
- Adding "not" in Hebrews 6:1 - Example of Joseph Smith's uninspired translation
- 1 Nephi 10:7-10 and John the Baptist - The dependence of the Book of Mormon on the NT Gospels
- The Bible Vs. The Book Of Mormon - Discussion of Brant Gardner's review of the DVD
[edit] March 2011
- Isaiah 53 and the dependence of the Book of Mormon on the KJV - Mosiah 14 is 99.5% identical to Isaiah 53 in the KJV
- Offenders for a Word - What this expression in Isaish 29:21 really means
[edit] February 2011
[edit] January 2011
[edit] November 2010
- New Testament apostles DID need to have seen the risen Christ - Specifically, apostles in the NT Christian church
- Does Ephesians teach that the church always needs living apostles on the earth? An exegetical study of Ephesians 2:20; 3:5; 4:11
- Did Cornelius receive the gift of the Holy Spirit before he was baptized? - Luke says yes; Joseph Smith and the LDS Church say no
- Gifts of the Holy Ghost - For LDS only?
[edit] October 2010
[edit] August 2010
[edit] July 2010
[edit] June 2010
- In what sense is Jesus the Son of God? 10 points in response to Lehi's questions
- Are you presently active in a temple?
- No "paradise" in the Greek text of Luke 23:43?
[edit] February 2009
- On Deuteronomy 32:8-9
- Gospel Principles and Job 38:7
- JST: Restoring the original text, inspired commentary, or what?
- Lost books of the Bible? Jasher and Jehu and Nathan and Gad....
- Multiple attestation lacking for the core LDS events -- See follow-up here
- Alleged early references to the First Vision
- Dan McClellan on reading the Bible univocally
- Do Bible authors "add to" or "take away from" biblical texts?
- Consistent Methodology - Does Rob Bowman use it?
- Pagan influence on biblical texts - Correcting a misperception
- On Gehenna and Eternal Fire in Matthew
