Camaraderie, Not Homosexuality

Writers often use comparative language to describe uncommon experience.  Using common shared experience as reference, good writers will establish the common to accentuate the uncommon.  I think this is what the author of 2 Samuel was doing when describing the relationship between David and Jonathan.  To assume that homosexuality is in view when David says…

Did Napoleon Bonaparte Really Exist?

David Hume could be seen by some as the Father of theological liberalism, specifically with respect to the veracity of miracles in the eyewitness testimonies of the New Testament Gospels.  In An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume argued that miracles are impossible, and no sane person would believe such (he says improbable, but he clearly…