Tag: inspiration
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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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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 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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“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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The Third Option
A few months ago I wrote a piece titled The Failed Prophecy and the False Choice. I ended it with the conclusion that we live in a world where we have more than just two choices when it comes to the bible. What I didn’t do was elaborate on that. To quickly sum up the…
Space For Doubt 