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Deity, Fasting, and the Anointing
I don’t plan on contributing entries this frequently, and I plan to resume the Israel topic on my next entry, but I attended a church service this weekend that provoked me to share. An evangelist...
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America is not Israel
Read my first post on this issue here. My first blog entry was titled, “The Church is Israel.” In that entry I tried to argue that God has ONE covenant community. These are His chosen people, the apple...
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Where Have All the Philosophers Gone?
Recently I read a comment on Facebook asking, “Why doesn’t anyone quote textbooks on Ontology anymore?” (That guy needs to be apart of our blog.) This seemed like an odd question to me. Isn’t the...
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The Moral Argument Reconsidered
Let me be clear, I am a theist. I believe in the existence of universal morality. I believe that morality is based upon the character & nature of God and that the scriptures contain an expression...
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Thursday Book Review: The Shack
I like the Shack. I really like the Shack. I love much of what the book claims, but these claims are not actually what they attempt to be. Let me explain what I mean. The Shack tells a story...
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Total Depravity & Homosexual Orientation
I was wondering when someone would break the ice on this blog concerning the homosexuality topic. Thank you Esther Moore for finally getting the ball rolling. I would like to contribute to the dialogue...
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Eschatological Pantheism I: Introduction
Christianity has thrived in the West. At times and even now, it has made headway into the East. Similarly, pantheistic philosophies & religions, which originated in the East, have established a...
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Eschatological Pantheism II: In Christ
“Your soul has a curious shape because it is hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the Divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many...
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Eschatological Pantheism III: Glorified Bodies
“The New Being is the reestablished unity between God and man. We replace the inadequate concept “divine nature” by the concepts “eternal God-man-unity” or “Eternal God-Manhood.”” -Paul Tillich Part 1...
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Eschatological Pantheism IV: Creation Groans
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation...
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A Critical Bashing of Open Theism
Open Theism (OT) is the belief that God does not have an exhaustive knowledge of future events. The argument goes something like this: - 1. God does not know things that do not exist. – 2....
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Echatological Pantheism V: All in All
The last post discussed the universal effect of God’s work of glorification. All of creation will eventually be redeemed and brought into union with the Divine. This post will look at the culmination...
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Devotion to the Author
The following is a fictional dialogue between an engaged couple, Bill & Ashley following a distressing email: Bill, I have a lot on my mind lately and I really feel like I need to talk to you about...
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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: A Historical Approach
Is something moral because God says that it is, or does God say that something is moral because it is? This is a common objection to Theism. If something is moral because God says that it is, then...
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Where Do We Begin?
One of the basic rules of hermeneutics is that the genre of literature determines how one interprets. The Bible utilizes various genres such as: narrative, poetry, didactic, prophetic, apocalyptic,...
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Eschatological Pantheism VI
I am revisiting this series as I did not provide a final post last semester. See previous posts to catch up on the train of thought. The objective is to provide a biblical explanation of how Christian...
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Who Did He Say That He Was?
C.S. Lewis presented his famous Lord, Liar, or Lunatic dilemma in his classic, Mere Christianity. His argument is that if Jesus claimed to be God, he was either lying about his identity, or he was...
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Hell: An Infinite Instance of Incoherent Injustice?
I didn’t think that I would ever write on this topic as I don’t particularly like the subject. More on that in a minute. I consider this to be the most difficult doctrine for the Christian to both...
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