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As we continue our thinking about epistemology, we need to revisit one of the demands of the Enlightenment project that claimed that all dogma be tested at the bar of history. This was a reaction to what was felt to be the mysticism of the Middle Ages.

If you understood the words in this title, you are at least as old as me and can remember when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. They are taken from the black and white sci-fi TV series called Lost in Space when a robot (surely the prototype of R2 D2) would warn the star, Will Robinson, when some bizarre interplanetary danger was afoot. This blog topic is a follow-up to our last piece when we explored whether the Bible could be a viable source for truth.

NothinsGonnaStopIt! is based on the viability and vitality of the biblical message for every human being on earth. In order to establish the foundation for these assumptions we now want to begin a blog series to explore the reliability of the Bible. We are going to start with asking the important questions as to whether the Bible could be a truth source, perhaps THE truth. Once that foundation is laid, we will then move to the question about how one could consider the words of the Bible as inspired by God, thus making it different from other books.

I have always identified myself with the the stream of Christendom called "evangelicalism." This word is often thought to refer to those who evangelize. While that is certainly an aspect of evangelicalism, the term itself was coined by conservative Christians in the 1940s to describe those that were distancing themselves from what was called "fundamentalism." Earlier in the century conservatives had taken the moniker "fundamentalists" when a group of pamphlets called The Fundamentals defined their version of orthodoxy.

This summer ('08) I had my NothinsGonnaStopIt! seminar DVD'd for the first time in Ventura California. Before the seminar began I sent out an email to a number of friends to ask them to pray for a number of things. Over the last eighteen year of doing this seminar I have had some fairly predictable obstacles to overcome. It is a very physical experience (high energy teaching for seven hours over two days) and my diaphragm, back and feet often hurt...so I asked for prayer for physical strength.

My interest and passion is the pursuit of the storyline of the Bible, the plan of God for creation that nothing can stop. I base my thoughts on the words of Isaiah 46.10-11 where the prophet, speaking in the name of Israel's God, Yahweh, says, "I have made known the end from the beginning, from ancient times what is still to come. My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please."