Tag: deconstruction
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The Biggest Barrier to Present Truth for SDA
For those not SDA who follow this blog, this is 100% an article you can skip. It has no bearing on your theology. The SDA doctrine of present truth is as follows: Present truth is the principle that certain biblical truths are relevant to God’s people at specific times in history. God sends the Holy…
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Is This What Happens When You Cheap Out on Your Musicians?
Studying the Bible should be fun. It should be informative. It should be comical at times. It should absolutely be perplexing too. This story? It’s got all of it. It’s the story of the time that God *checks notes*…lost in battle? What!?!? That can’t be right? Well…if we’re fair with our interpretations then yes. Many…
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“She’s Gotta Be a He!”- The Patriarchy
Humans have this two steps forward, one step back approach to making progress towards equality. Seeing as we’re currently in a one step back phase right now, it feels like a good time to cover a lesser known figure. Meet Junia, the female apostle. You may have heard of her before, but have you heard…
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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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“That’s Enough Cats!” – God
The realm of religious apologetics seems to be one full of anxiety. They never know when a new discovery will throw a wrench in some dogma they hold. A wrench that requires inventing a new argument to “disprove” it. They have to contrive complicated hypothetical arguments on the regular, in order to combat logical inconsistencies…
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God’s Feelings: Only Some are Valid?
Genesis states that we are created in God’s image and likeness. I’m not suggesting that God is in all ways like us, but He must share at least some attributes. The Bible is full of verses that testify to God having feelings, or at least that the authors of the day felt that God possessed…
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Biblical Giants. Real, Myth, or In-between?
Legends of giants have captivated people since the beginning of our ability to describe them. Legends exist in more than just the bible. Many cultures have stories of these inhumanly tall creatures. Since I was a child I was fascinated by the stories, albeit rather skeptical on their veracity. How would we not have any…
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Gospel Disagreement & a Brief Gospel History
The timeline of composition and authorship of the gospels raise important-to-consider issues that should not be ignored. If one desires to understand their beliefs beyond a “It must be true as I learned it, because it must be true as I learned it” fallacy, then seeking to answer these questions seems reasonable. Let’s start by…
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Apologists: Dogma’s Retainment Specialists
You’ve probably heard the term apologist before. I don’t remember when I first heard it, but I thought it meant something along the lines of “A person who uses more in-depth scriptural interpretation to show how something in the bible is true, to convince non-believers of the veracity of the faith.” While that definition is…
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Modern Critical Scholarship: How Do We Know What We Know?
Few people enjoy having their views or opinions challenged. Throughout all of human history this has remained constant. One example that came to mind when thinking about this post was the acceptance of a heliocentric solar system model. The church had been adamant that the earth was the center of the solar system. The famous…
Space For Doubt 