Articles by William Roach


Did God create Adam, the first human man, in a direct and special way? Or did God indirectly create Adam and Eve by appointing two members from a band of line of highly-evolved, upright-walking hominids (such as Homo heidelbergensis around 750,000 years ago) to be the first true archaic human breeding pair? Does Genesis 1-11 belong to the genre of “Mytho-History” as Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen and Christian apologist...

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At the 75th meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Michael Licona will deliver a talk titled. . . The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy Needs a Facelift: A Fresh Look at Biblical Inerrancy. [Ref.] Does the Chicago Statement need a facelift? Should it be revised even if we wanted to? Dr. Bill Roach, co-author of the book Defending Inerrancy, explores these questions in depth at https://youtu.be/J2EO5juqzIg: Although...

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Review of Jeffrey McDonald’s biography of John Gerstner by William C. Roach     Jeffrey S. McDonald. John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America. Eugene: Pickwick, 2017. 263 pp. $26.40. Available at Pickwick and Amazon   The twentieth century saw a renewal of evangelical Protestant orthodoxy. It also saw the birth of heterodoxy and heresy. The twentieth century also...

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