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how much… destruction is at work in the ‘best’ of people… and how much… grace is at work in the ‘worst’ of people. in other words… you’re never so good that you’re beyond the influence of evil and… you’re never so bad that you’re beyond the reach of God. 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 Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind & strength Love your neighbour as you… Love your self. Love of God, neighbour and self are all interwoven. I’ve been thinking lately about confession, which – like love – occurs in relationship. Protestants often are quick to give reasons why they don’t confess to a priest like Catholics. “Through Christ, . . . → Read More: the (w)hole in our confession Q: Why does no Roman historian mention Jesus’ resurrection!? Surely if something so extraordinary happened, they would have written about it!? A: One thing we know about the period is that, from a Graeco-Roman perspective, bodily life after death would have been mocked and undesirable. This is why the Gospel (to which the Resurrection of Jesus is an essential and . . . → Read More: on jesus’ quiet resurrection …funny how most (not all!) American Christians are happy to ‘get political’ when it comes to abortion and gay marriage (‘Oh yes, let’s fight for godly legislation!’), but scream ‘socialism’ when it comes to issues like benefits for poor, out of work, or infirm people – or (shock, horror) free health care… Doom to you who legislate evil, who make . . . → Read More: prophecy & politics The Bill Craig version of the Kalam Cosmological Argument goes like this: p1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. p2. The universe began to exist. c. The universe has a cause. Some have put forward the objection(s) that we’ve never observed anything ‘come into existence’ in the sense of ‘ex nihilo’ (out of nothing). Everything that we might normally . . . → Read More: kalam criticism Just making preparations for song-leading at Carey graduation, and spotted this gem of a line, which opens the fourth verse of Henry van Dyke’s hymn (to the tune of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Hymn to Joy), Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee: Mortals join the mighty chorus, which the morning stars began… I love the thought of all of the vast ages . . . → Read More: the mighty chorus My ‘techno-skepto’ mate, Damian, has posted an updated version of his funky cool little evolving tool. Head over and have a play with the numbers (offspring & mutation rate) and the target phrase. Admittedly a bit dated, but a 1998 paper by the Joint Methodist-Presbyterian Public Questions Committee suggested that for those “whose emotional or physical make-up means that it is unlikely they would ever be able to enter a mutually acceptable and honest physical relationship with another person’, prostitutes should be provided, and that “to deny such people any opportunity to express . . . → Read More: eros-anthropos? |
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