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With any discipline or line of enquiry, patience is a virtue. We must have patience regarding the amount we will ever be able to know about a given topic. Whether your ‘-ology’ is of ‘bios’, ‘theos’, or ‘cosmos’, it’s essential to remember that there will always be more questions. For some, this is an enquiry-stopper. ”Heck, if we can’t know . . . → Read More: patience… Some presentations and presenters of Christianity are, in my view, overly obsessed with the Death of Jesus such that they over-emphasise it, and end up marginalising the Incarnation of Jesus, the Ministry of Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, the Ascension of Jesus and the giving of the Spirit of Jesus. It probably wouldn’t be fair to use any label for . . . → Read More: full gospel Well, it’s been a good little while since I’ve posted, because I’ve been finishing my undergrad degree I’ve turned in my last essay just this Sunday, which was one of two larger (6,000 word) research projects. I attach links to the PDFs below. Upon graduation in March, I will officially have three qualifications, one related to building houses, and two . . . → Read More: finished I’ve long held the view that God doesn’t always get what God wants/wills/desires. It seems fundamentally basic to me. Because, there is more than one way to be omnipotent. By way of analogy, take my non-omnipotence… my mere potency. I possess the ‘ability’, or ‘power’ or ‘potency’ to do this or that thing. I am, within the laws of physics, . . . → Read More: lamb power James Chastek points out that the authors of Scripture were not constructing a body of ‘evidence’ for God, but rather relating their testimony of things they were witnesses to. He remarks, “Christ, for one, was chiefly interested in making sure that he would have continual witnesses on earth, not that there would be any careful documentation of what he did . . . → Read More: for all Just reading those intro chapters of Genesis, and I noticed what seems quite a contrast between the human vocation statements in the two creation stories. Gen 1:28 says humans are to ‘fill‘ (מָלֵא mala – be full; fill) and ‘subdue‘ (כָּבַשׁ kabash – be raped; subjugate; be humiliated; etc.) the earth… Then Gen 2:15 says they are to ‘tend‘ (עָבַד . . . → Read More: rapists into lovers? Very few people would say that killing humans is categorically wrong (all times, places & circumstances). Most would have general ideas about extenuating – and tragic – circumstances which justify it. So, a kind of moral calculus is almost always at work where the weight of the consequences of killing is contrasted with the weight of the consequences of not . . . → Read More: good killing? I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read: “the goddess is dancing” The car probably belongs to an adherent of one kind or other of ‘new-age’ spirituality. But I caught myself and stopped short of easy dismissal-ism. I asked myself, “Hey, cannot a Christian in a sense say the same thing?” After all, the Bible does include feminine . . . → Read More: dancing goddess second verse by Cohen: And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said “All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them” But he himself was broken Long before . . . → Read More: suzanne |
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