Tag: reason
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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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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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The Ivory Tower Problem
People hate when they realize information has been kept from them. That’s been universally true for all of time. Whether it be the result of an intentional action, or the result of simply being unaware, the perception is inevitably that knowledge was being gate-kept. It was intentional. This is no less true in the realm…
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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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Why Does ____ In the Bible Have To Be Literal?
Have you ever questioned why any particular piece of traditional Biblical history must be taken as literal? Don’t overthink this. Don’t think about who else believes that, or how it’s always been taught. It’s not that deep. The question is simply why does the story itself have to be literal? Perhaps a better way of…
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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…
Space For Doubt 