Tag: apologetics
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Reconstruction: Out of the ashes
According to ancient legend, the phoenix is an immortal mythical bird. One day it grew bored of living in paradise and wished to travel to the mortal world. Not long after arrival, the Phoenix became aware of its immortality and wanted to renew himself. He built a nest and waited for the sun god Ra…
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Creation: An Exploration of Issues
The Bible has a particular way it conveys creation. Well actually it has several ways it does this. Sometimes they don’t agree. In any case, a plain reading of the text can leave the reader, the curious scientifically minded reader at least, with a number of questions. To set the stage, let’s establish the traditional…
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The exodus. Big, small, or not at all?
The Exodus is a fascinating story. A real underdog escape from a great evil. From an early age, I often pondered how such a large group of people could manage to stay organized well enough to leave simultaneously, stay in formation, and manage to not leave some indelible mark on Egyptian history. As stated in…
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Is God a God of deceit?
It wasn’t until around a year into my deconstruction journey that I stumbled into an unsettling realization. If I were to hold true to the original interpretations of some OT stories (and the explanations given me by their proponents), I would have no choice but to accept that God was a God of deception. Let’s…
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Long term, is the conservative evangelical church doomed?
Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus suffered heavy losses after defeating the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 279 B.C.E. After the battle, Pyrrhus is said to have exclaimed, “One more such victory and we are lost“ Our conservative evangelical churches got what they wanted yesterday in the U.S.A. They got the power they craved.…
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Problems with the Tower of Babel
I think this was the next item on my domino list, if for no other reason than the proximity to the flood. No one denies that, in addition to any potentially legitimate historical existence, the Tower of Babel story has significant symbolic meaning. Since it is commonly taught as an actual historic event, I thought…
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Blame and Credit. Is God due any of it?
[For whatever reason, the latter part of this post does not display properly on mobile devices. FYI] This subject is one that I’ve taken issue with for my entire life. I always felt blaming or crediting God for most things just didn’t sit right. It wasn’t until my deconstruction journey that I was able put…
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The Exception
I guess I lied. In a previous post I said I didn’t I have any control over what I believe. There is a single solitary exception to this, I think. When my house of cards came tumbling down a few years ago, I reached a bit of low point. I was asking myself, at this…
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The Irresistible Force Paradox
There is a fun thought experiment of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. It’s a bit of a silly analogy, but you can think of the unstoppable force being the deconstruction movement and the immovable object being the status quo. Because I am most aligned with SDA beliefs historically, I consider…
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What it means to abandon a belief
What does it mean to abandon a biblical belief? I have two working definitions. 1.) To no longer believe that something is true to the extent that there are no mental gymnastics or interpretive changes that could be implemented to save it. 2.) To no longer believe an interpretation you have been taught about a…
Space For Doubt 