Frank Luke

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I am a web programmer by day (PHP) and work on sermons and teaching material in the evenings.

I attended Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, for a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity. I am an associate pastor at a small church in Iowa. While in seminary, my emphasis was on Old Testament studies, but Dr. Wave Nunnally introduced me to the rabbinics. Those have become a special interest as well.

I also enjoy apologetics and was a very active member of the apologetics.org forum before it went defunct.

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Feb 27	comment	Was Moses the probable author of Genesis? @Bruce, I didn't mean to aim that comment at you. I was adding it to the discussion but didn't feel that I had enough information right now to add my own answer to this thread.
Feb 27	answered	What's Paul (of Tarsus)'s view on the bodily resurrection?
Feb 27	comment	Was Moses the probable author of Genesis? Walter Kaiser spends some time showing why the documentary hypothesis is faulty in The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable and Relevant. See also his Recovering the Unity of Scripture.
Feb 27	comment	Was Moses the probable author of Genesis? @Dan, would attaching an obituary as the last chapter of Dt detract from Moses writing the rest of it?
Feb 24	awarded	Critic
Feb 24	comment	What was Er's sin? I am going to completely disagree with the word "because." All of those men were firstborns and displeased God, but their status was not what displeased God. Cain committed murder after offering an unworthy sacrifice. Reuben slept with his father's concubines. Ishmael and Gad were sons of concubines so really don't count as firstborns. Esau's attitude showed he was not worthy to receive the blessing.
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Feb 23	comment	Does Genesis's creation account depict creation “ex nihilo”? @Affable Geek. That's exactly the one.
Feb 22	comment	Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his daughter? Thanks for the push back. I appreciate it. I found it difficult to find many people supporting the human sacrifice stance today. So you're saying that the biggest tragedy of her death (as the Hebrews would see it) is that it ends her father's line?
Feb 22	awarded	Mortarboard
Feb 22	comment	Does Genesis's creation account depict creation “ex nihilo”? "(Babylonian and many other creation stories detail the birth and family trees of the gods.)" I compared several in seminary. After reading the Egyptian account of the origin of their gods, I needed to shower.
Feb 22	answered	Does Genesis's creation account depict creation “ex nihilo”?
Feb 22	revised	Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his daughter? clarification
Feb 22	answered	Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his daughter?
Feb 21	comment	Did Jephthah actually sacrifice his daughter? I'll answer this more tonight. One thing that supporters of the non-death sacrifice (i.e. that she never married) cite is that she says, "I will go to bewail my virginity." She doesn't bewail her coming death, but the fact that she never married. More to come. :)
Feb 21	comment	Is there any scriptural warrant for the literalist approach to scripture? I know a lot of people who take a literal approach to Scripture, and the first question we ask when reading is "what is the genre of this passage? Does the genre indicate literalness or figurative?"
Feb 21	awarded	Enthusiast
Feb 19	comment	Does Gen 1:1 refer to day 1 or the entire 6 days of creation? @Alex, can you be more detailed by what he means by "connected to the next word"? While most of the 51 occurrences of reishith are part of construct chains (the choicest of your fruits, the first of his reign), there are some that are definitely not. Is 46:10, " Declaring the end from the beginning,"