Tag: Faith

Thought: The Profundities and the Peripheries of Life
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Thought: The Profundities and the Peripheries of Life

It constantly amazes me how shallow most peoples' thought processes are-and that by intention. I can't say I've done a scientific study on this, unless you count a lifetime of the observation of human nature as being scientific, but it's pretty clear to me that on the surface at least, a large majority of people think no further than shallow and temporal everyday issues related to physical needs: work, what to eat for dinner, what so-and-so is wearing today, and how I can gain some sort of romantic leverage over those I'm attracted to.

Babylon, The Bible and the BBC
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Babylon, The Bible and the BBC

As in science, secular historians tend to ignore and trash Biblical accounts, even though archaeological finds frequently embarrass them and prove them wrong. Today I'm aiming more at some implications of secular accounts of history, and going beyond history I'm looking at the border between mythology and actual realities of the past. Listening to two … Continue reading Babylon, The Bible and the BBC →

Emotion and the American Gospel
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Emotion and the American Gospel

The most recent video publication of "The American Gospel" does, for the most part, a service to the Church and the Word of God. However, I take exception to the episode used to preach Reformed theology, as though it were the gospel truth. To my mind this is an error almost as large as the one the video series attempts to address.

John the Baptist and the Son of God
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John the Baptist and the Son of God

Mark calls the Messiah "the Son of God". He quotes God as saying through Isaiah that He would send his messenger ahead of this Son of God and would tell His messenger to "make straight paths for him" (Mark 1:1-3). So then, the "Lord" whose way John was to prepare was Jesus Christ - not just an earthly master as some try to define the word "lord" here, but the Son of God.

Healing and the Will of God
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Healing and the Will of God

Certain Charismatic ministers and their followers are teaching that God literally “cannot” heal unless we believe fully that He's going to do it, or even that He already has healed us. They say that to consider whether or not God wants to heal us is to ensure that the healing will not happen. I here lay out a selection of Scriptural evidence that this is a false teaching, and therefore that the proponents of this idea are either false teachers or should not be trusted to teach.