Tag: church
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Be Careful What You Ask For Church
The last few weeks have been full of intensive Bible study. (The fruits of that will bear soon in a few articles I’m working on) I cracked a smile at one point, realizing that when the church says to “study your Bible,” is that really what they want? Growing up in a conservative church, there…
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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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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 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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Actionable Faith or Faithless Actions?
Take a look at the above graphic. The budget for the USA defense spending is nearly 1 trillion dollars. That’s a hard number to even mentally grasp. Even 1% of that money could change life as many know it. It could fully fund school lunches in the U.S. Massive inroads could be made into ending…
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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 