Tag: theology
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Is God a God of deceit?
It wasn’t until around a year into my deconstruction journey that I stumbled into an unsettling realization. If I were to hold true to the original interpretations of some OT stories (and the explanations given me by their proponents), I would have no choice but to accept that God was a God of deception. Let’s…
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Long term, is the conservative evangelical church doomed?
Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus suffered heavy losses after defeating the Romans at the Battle of Asculum in 279 B.C.E. After the battle, Pyrrhus is said to have exclaimed, “One more such victory and we are lost“ Our conservative evangelical churches got what they wanted yesterday in the U.S.A. They got the power they craved.…
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A Dinosaur Dating Deep Dive
One of my favorite topics. Dinosaurs. I loved them as a kid. Heck I still love them. They fascinate me! Creatures so wildly different than what we have today, it’s hard to even imagine. To start with, I want to poke a little fun at all the world religions for a moment. You see, the…
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Problems with the Tower of Babel
I think this was the next item on my domino list, if for no other reason than the proximity to the flood. No one denies that, in addition to any potentially legitimate historical existence, the Tower of Babel story has significant symbolic meaning. Since it is commonly taught as an actual historic event, I thought…
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Blame and Credit. Is God due any of it?
[For whatever reason, the latter part of this post does not display properly on mobile devices. FYI] This subject is one that I’ve taken issue with for my entire life. I always felt blaming or crediting God for most things just didn’t sit right. It wasn’t until my deconstruction journey that I was able put…
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Our Impaired Free Will
This is a tough one. In a previous post I mentioned how I’d get into our impaired human capacity to choose God. This was never something I had ever considered prior to just a few months ago but is now quite obvious. Imagine you are a young child of a radicalized terrorist and live in…
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The Exception
I guess I lied. In a previous post I said I didn’t I have any control over what I believe. There is a single solitary exception to this, I think. When my house of cards came tumbling down a few years ago, I reached a bit of low point. I was asking myself, at this…
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The Irresistible Force Paradox
There is a fun thought experiment of what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. It’s a bit of a silly analogy, but you can think of the unstoppable force being the deconstruction movement and the immovable object being the status quo. Because I am most aligned with SDA beliefs historically, I consider…
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What it means to abandon a belief
What does it mean to abandon a biblical belief? I have two working definitions. 1.) To no longer believe that something is true to the extent that there are no mental gymnastics or interpretive changes that could be implemented to save it. 2.) To no longer believe an interpretation you have been taught about a…
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Belief. Is it a choice?
Do you have any control over what you believe? Let’s say we’re outside at noon on a clear sunny day. I say I will pay you one million dollars if you can make yourself believe the sky is red and not blue. Then I ask you take a lie detector test (or let’s pretend you…
Space For Doubt 