24 Hours—Plain as Day, and other links

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• 24 Hours—Plain as Day -- "The top Hebrew scholars all agree that the writer of Genesis 1 intended the word day to mean 24 hours. If they all agree . . . then why can’t we?"
• An Exegetical Look at John 3:16 - by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon -- "...John 3:16 recalls the promise of the prologue seen in 1:12-13 and prepares the reader of the Gospel to encounter God’s expanded realm of salvation, not only for the Jews, but also for the Samaritans and Gentiles in John 4:1-54."
• A Response to James Anderson on John 3:16 -- "The truth is, there is no discernible difference between the English in question and the Greek with regard to indefiniteness."
• Does John 3:16 Say “Whoever”? -- "...the indefinite relative pronoun ὅστις does not occur in John 3:16, but language is not so monolithic that there is only one way to say something."
• For God so loved the world: A Calvinist Response to Richard Brian Davis -- "James White has responded that the participial phrase, πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων, is best rendered “everyone believing”."
• Genesis is Literal History -- "It is popular today even in “evangelical” circles to deny the historicity of Genesis 1-11."
• How Church Membership is Misunderstood, Misapplied, and Abused -- "...pastors...may be tempted to an unrighteous zeal—a zeal to establish membership processes and practices that move beyond what Scripture requires."
• Is the Meaning of Genesis Lost in the Ancient Near East? -- "Dr. Walton’s Lost World series is a good example of what happens when, however unintentionally, the ANE texts are given magisterial authority over the text of Scripture."
• Metaphors and Membership: How Biblical Metaphors for the Church Require Church Membership -- "If we unpack all of what Scripture teaches about the local church, we’ll find that church membership is in fact in every nook and cranny of the New Testament."
• Mueller’s Preposterous Rationale for Tainting the President with ‘Obstruction’ Allegations -- "Who is running this show, Mueller — or some of his notoriously aggressive staffers, recruited from the Obama Justice Department and private practice stints representing the Clintons?"
• The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses -- "The investigative theory on which the FBI formally opened the foreign-counterintelligence probe code-named “Crossfire Hurricane” on July 31, 2016, held that the Trump campaign knew about, and was potentially complicit in, Russia’s possession of hacked emails that would compromise Hillary Clinton..."
• Twelve Reasons Why Membership Matters -- "It’s biblical. Jesus established the local church and all the apostles did their ministry through it."
• What I Learned from Two Failed Church Mergers -- "As we were walking, it suddenly struck us that there was a big, almost-empty Baptist church nearby. So we walked over and knocked on the door."
• Who is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53? -- "With the Suffering Servqant, Isaiah paints a picture of a coming time when God will pour out the punishment for our sin on one individual..."