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Afternoons With Bill Arnold

I was honored to be a guest on the Afternoons with Bill Arnold show on Faith Radio on November 19, 2019. He had me on to discuss my new book Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses (Available on Amazon). Below is our chat. Enjoy!

R. L. Solberg 3 years agoSeptember 24, 2021

Apologetics Faith Philosophy Theology

Morning At The Vineyard

The early morning sun was streaming through the windshield of the old pickup truck as the silver-haired man climbed in. He set his hot cup of coffee in the drink holder and squinted as he adjusted his rearview mirror. The pickup sputtered to life and the man pulled out onto the dirt road that ran […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoOctober 19, 2019

Apologetics Faith Hebrew Roots Philosophy Theology

Zach & The Law (Pt. 2)

Welcome to part two of my critique of the video “Moral Laws & The Covenant” by Zach Bauer. Bauer is a charming fellow who preaches a new belief system called Torahism which holds that Christians are supposed to return to keeping the Torah of the Old Testament because we are believed to still be under […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoDecember 3, 2021

Apologetics Faith Hebrew Roots Philosophy Theology

Zach & The Law (Pt. 1)

In my ongoing mission to learn what Torahism is all about and test it against Scripture, I’ve had another Zach Bauer video shared with me. In this video, our winsome host is answering a question he received from a viewer about Jesus’ fulfillment of the covenant and the notion that the moralistic laws are still […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoDecember 3, 2021

Apologetics Hebrew Roots Philosophy Theology

Is the Torah Binding on Christians?

Many Torahists claim that we Christians have been duped by an anti-semitic, Roman / Gentile corruption of the Christian theology. And out of what seems to be genuine love and sincerity, they are urging us to return to Torah. This idea immediately struck me at a gut level as wrong and possibly even heretical, but […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoSeptember 24, 2021

Apologetics Faith Hebrew Roots Philosophy Theology

The Rise of Torahism

During a recent theological discussion, a friend asked me to watch a video by a man named Zachary Bauer who was defending a new faith movement in which Christians are “discovering Torah.” This is a movement that, from what I have gathered so far, believes that we need to return to living under the Abrahamic […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoSeptember 24, 2021

Creativity Culture Philosophy

Sailing to Byzantium

I only recently read this poem for the first time, and something about it really resonated with me. Such a noble sentiment, infused with agony and yearning. Yeats, an Irishman, wrote this poem in 1926 at the age of 61. Of it, he said: “I am trying to write about the state of my soul, […]

R. L. Solberg 4 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Apologetics Culture Faith Philosophy Theology

A Piece of Life

The following exchange happened between an unidentified questioner, and an Indian yogi and mystic called Jaggi Vasudev, who is more commonly known as Sadhguru. The questioner asks, “We have light and dark, we have hot and cold, do we have also good and bad?” Sadhguru answers, “Good and bad is not in terms of your […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years ago

Apologetics Culture Philosophy

On Human Decency

Author Christopher Hitchens was brilliant with a turn of phrase. In that sense, I often think of him as the C. S. Lewis of antitheism; charming, clever, intelligent, well-read, British. He had a way of phrasing his arguments so that his point seemed like the only logical position one could possibly hold on the matter. […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoOctober 10, 2020

Apologetics Philosophy

Is Wrong Wrong? (Intro)

Introduction I was recently talking with a colleague about an iterative question-asking technique called the “5 Whys” which was developed by Sakichi Toyoda. This tactic is used by the Toyota Motor Corporation as a tool for drilling down to the root cause of problems. The idea is that by repeating the question “why?” five (or […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years ago