Tag: truth
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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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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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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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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 Most High Priest?
Humans are predictable creatures. Just as hunger and thirst are common to us all, we share many other things too. Music, art, social hierarchy, desire for companionship, and so on. There is also this natural tendency towards belief in the supernatural, a higher power that brought us into existence and has some ultimate plan. Coinciding with…
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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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A Pharaoh(ly) Ridiculous Plague Narrative: The Godzilla Frog – Part 1
The more I study the Bible, the more humor I get from it. Perhaps not directly from the author, but more so from the idea of taking certain parts literally. There have been a few times I have actually laughed out loud. Studying the plague narrative, post-deconstruction, was enjoyably one of those times! Let’s jump…
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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…
Space For Doubt 