Tag: jesus
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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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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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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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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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Would They Recognize Jesus?
It has become increasingly clear in the last month that the broad American Evangelical Church is facing a dilemma between something and their neighbor. There’s something out there that seems to be a partition between the words they read and “believe”, and the actions they champion and promote. “The only clear line I draw these…
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The Validity of the Trinity Doctrine
This post is long. Let’s dive right in. Just for a quick refresher, not that anyone isn’t aware, the trinity doctrine is as follows. There are three distinct entities that comprise a singular God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. All three are said to be coequal and coeternal. It’s a very confusing…
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Why does someone deconstruct?
There are some who assume a person deconstructing must have some negative driving experience pushing them down this road. There must have been some past religious trauma for this to happen. It can be true, absolutely! But it’s not a requirement, and the entirety of the motive can simply be….because it was my time. No…
Space For Doubt 