Love
Here is a snippet from a comment series on a previous post that I thought was worth highlighting: Incest was necessary given the nature of God’s creation of human lineage. And polygamy and concubines run rampant in the Old Testament among those deemed righteous. Incest is not unnatural in the biological sense. One could, and [...]
A rather interesting discussion on Facebook began when a friend of mine posted the following: The Prince of Peace also is the holy, righteous, and just God of wrath. Justice is the reason for wrath Justice, not wrath. In order for God to be a “God of wrath” there would need to be something for [...]
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Last year my daughter helped shed some insights into Thanksgiving. And since she reminded me of her insights again this year, I thought I would share them with everyone. Enjoy! My daughter’s recently had a week where the emphasis was on “being thankful” before Thanksgiving this year. Curiously, or typically rather in our politically correct [...]
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. -John 3:16 World is not merely nations in this text. Such a distinction, while required in order to prop up the doctrine of limited atonement, is simply not found in [...]
Much has been said regarding pornography. It’s use, it’s consumption, it’s effects on both groups, and it’s effect on society. I want to step back, however, for a minute and discuss how pornography itself constitutes a “way of knowing” regarding sex and how this method of knowing, this ideological grid, colors how we think about [...]
One of the most common proof-texts used to show that God arbitrarily elects some to salvation while damning others without merit or cause is Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Many people have a hard time with this passage as it is often posited as evidence of [...]
[HT Answering Muslims] Here are videos from an excellent debate between Mary Jo Sharp of Confident Christianity and Tabassum Hussain PhD. on the topic: “Women: The Bible and The Quran.”: OPENING STATEMENTS 1ST REBUTTALS 2ND REBUTTALS/Q&A CONCLUSIONS
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In a previous post I laid out an ontological argument (following Descartes’ formula) for God’s loving the whole world (on contrast to the rather limited view of love posited by the reformed doctrine of Limited Atonement). Here I will attempt to provide a Biblical case from the standpoint of Christ’s words to “love thy enemies”. [...]
From a conversation via Google Buzz1: I can’t help but coming to the conclusion that, outside of open theism where God has no clue what the future holds, God is always in some way ‘responsible’ for sin and evil in the world. I say that with reverence and a few qualifications, of course. But God [...]
[HT The Ruth Institute] What if our culture’s assumption that “freely chosen relationships” is not true? We’ve long held in our culture that arranged marriages are inherently evil for depriving couples of the freedom to choose their (supposedly) life-long mates. However, what if we discovered that instead of love being diminished by the removal of [...]
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