Tag: faith
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Biblical Mythbusting: A Repository of Greatest Hits
NOTE: Going forward, this article will serve as the repository for all past, present, and future biblical mythbusting articles. It will be a “living” article in that it will grow over time. If there was any article to bookmark, this would probably be the one! 😉 This week I’ve had the “pleasure” of listening to…
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Reinterpreting The End: A Historical Primer
This begins a multi-post series on the end times as viewed by someone raised in a heavily end-times focused denomination (Seventh-day Adventist). We will cover five topics. An All-Too-Common Mindset People have been captivated by biblical apocalypticism from the moment they got their hands on Daniel and Revelation. These books are like the Netflix Special…
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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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That’s Not God
People struggle to reconcile the God of the Old Testament and the God who sacrificed His own son out of love for us. Those rightly come across as two different Gods. Many have heard the same apologetics employed to get over this hurdle. What if that wasn’t God at all? Today we have a higher…
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Young Earth Creationism Falls Apart
*This post is in response to a video my wife was sent from a YEC.* Young Earth Creationism (YEC). The pinnacle of anti-science. I’ve seen PhD holding “scientists” (YEC apologists) defend this idea by seemingly forgetting everything they learned to get that PhD. They’ve written books. They’ve created traveling science shows to promote their ideas…
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Deconstruction: A Visual Guide
For the visual learners out there, here’s a few graphs to help make sense of the deconstruction process. As an engineer, I occasionally have to make graphs to describe unconventional data for my projects. Sometimes a little humor slips in, to the laughter of the leadership team. People tend to approve projects more easily when…
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Is This What “Under Control” Looks Like?
Imagine your child is a student at a local school. It’s a large and diverse school, but the only one in the area. This school has no rules, at least none that are enforced anyway. The kids hit each other, destroy school property regularly, and some have even died. It’s a real train wreck. You…
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Deconstruction: What It Is. What it Isn’t.
Deconstruction can be a scary word. It’s sometimes used derogatorily by fundamentalists as a bogeyman term. It’s often attributed incorrectly by people who don’t really understand it. It’s occasionally feared by people who are starting to question, but are understandably hesitant of what that process might entail. Deconstruction is the process of exploring the kaleidoscope…
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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…
Space For Doubt 