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The Trinity Hat Trick
Something also felt off about only having two posts addressing the trinity🙃. Here’s the completion of the hat-trick. After this one I’m done. I promise! 😉 A quick note. I’ve made a lot more space recently for the trinity. It is one of the possible ways to define God, and I get the appeal. I…
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A Heavenly Conversation
Jesus: “Hey dad, those humans are acting up again.” God: “Which of their many shenanigans are you referring to?” Jesus: “They keep demanding that the stories their own ancestors made up as mythology and etiology, are literal factual history. And they keep sweeping away all my near-exclusive teachings on the poor, the widow, and the…
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Inspiration
The last two months have been less-than-inspiratory. In fact it’s been a theologically tough time. The radio silence on this platform is evidence of exactly that. (Well…that and two kids + a busy phase of life making free time non-existent!) It’s become clear that the very foundation of the primary theological evidence we have today…
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The Most High Priest?
Humans are predictable creatures. Just as hunger and thirst are common to us all, we share many other things too. Music, art, social hierarchy, desire for companionship, and so on. There is also this natural tendency towards belief in the supernatural, a higher power that brought us into existence and has some ultimate plan. Coinciding with…
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The Trinity – Some Logical Problems and a Few Illogical Proof-texts
It has been brought to my attention that James White never actually got on board with the trinity at all. I relied on a source without fact checking. 100% my fault. It just sounded like something that was probably true. (With the understanding that the SDA church currently believes in the trinity) I have updated…
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The Unnecessary, Unscriptural, and Unduly Enforced Trinity Doctrine
I’ve spent almost a year wrestling with this topic. It’s time to address the issues head on. I apologize in advance for the length, but this is actually quite short considering the subject. I urge the reader to get to the end before slapping the label of heretic on me, although perhaps that label is…
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The Ivory Tower Problem
People hate when they realize information has been kept from them. That’s been universally true for all of time. Whether it be the result of an intentional action, or the result of simply being unaware, the perception is inevitably that knowledge was being gate-kept. It was intentional. This is no less true in the realm…
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How to Misuse Science: Jacob’s Poplar Lacroix Water Experiment.
Science is misunderstood by many. That shouldn’t be too surprising though. Science is complicated and hard to do well. You don’t trust just anyone to perform neurosurgery. We wouldn’t want our neighbor’s 14-year old to be in charge of designing a nuclear power plant’s control rods. You probably wouldn’t want your taxi-driver to be thrown…
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“Jonah, For Once Would You Just Think Of The Cattle?”
Have you ever had something you could not have possibly cared less about, and then wound up eventually caring greatly about that exact thing? The God of the Bible, if the text is to be assumed as univocal, certainly seems to do this. He wipes all of humanity out in a flood, then promises not…
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Why Does ____ In the Bible Have To Be Literal?
Have you ever questioned why any particular piece of traditional Biblical history must be taken as literal? Don’t overthink this. Don’t think about who else believes that, or how it’s always been taught. It’s not that deep. The question is simply why does the story itself have to be literal? Perhaps a better way of…
Space For Doubt 