Tag: interpretation
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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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True Prophecy Must What?
A few weeks ago I got into a discussion about prophecy, what it actually is, and how to “test” it. In light of my ongoing months-long caffeine-fueled binge of Daniel and Revelation, it seemed like a good topic to explore. You’ve probably heard this line before. All prophecy must be in harmony with the scriptures. …
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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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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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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…
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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…
Space For Doubt 