The recent post about Ephesians and interlinears, Dead Wrong, prompted me to say a little more about how much time we waste in the typical Bible study. I was in “Sunday School” for 43 years and really just kept getting the same set of lessons, over and over, filling in the blanks with all the [...]
People are incurably religious. They like to do certain things to make them feel close to God (I am specifically referring to the One True God here, and the people I’m talking about are Christians). And there’s nothing wrong with such a quest on the surface. But when they cross the line and replace the [...]
In mankind’s noble quest to prove itself insignificant, many have concluded that there just has to be life on other planets. But we need to examine some of the common planks in this misanthropic platform.
God never said he didn’t make life elsewhere
The universe is so unimaginably large, the statistical probability of life on other planets [...]
When you’ve studied the Bible for many years, you think you can’t be surprised anymore by what the text says. Sure, we all keep getting new insights as the Spirit enlightens us, but the text itself seems pretty solid.
Until you look “under the hood”.
No, I’m not about to question the words, like the liberal scholars [...]
Toward the end of Acts, in chapter 17, the apostle Paul is in Athens and is invited to speak to their philosophers about his “strange teaching”. He begins with the statement “I see that you are very religious”, which came from his observation of the many shrines to various gods in the city. They even [...]
You may recall from earlier posts (You Shall Be Like God and Contemplative Spirituality) that what is being heavily promoted today as “true” Christianity is nothing of the sort, but a counterfeit. Many believers are being relentlessly pressured with the notion that the Bible is insufficient or deficient and that the truly spiritual Christian will [...]
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