Minor Thoughts

When last we left our heroes (I mean authors Geisler and Turek, not Joe and me… lest there be any confusion), we had just been introduced to their patented Road Runner Tactic.

And now to the meat.

With Chapters 1 and 2, Messrs. Geisler & Turek seek to prove, as you might expect, the first two points of their case for the Bible. These points are:

Truth about reality is knowable. .2 The opposite of true is false.

I’d divide their first …

The 12-point argument for the Bible’s divinely-inspired authority doesn’t actually start until Chapter 1, but Mssrs. Geisler and Turek make a couple of assertions in their book’s introduction (”Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life”) that require addressing – and more importantly, also begin to reveal a tendency they have to manipulate their …

In Calvinism Continued, Adam argues that it’s nonsense to suggest that all sin is really a sin against God.

A Christian might also suggest that all sins are sins against God, not men – but that is simply nonsense. Whosoever harms me, harms me (a better argument is the idea that God wants you …

Adam is right, of course. The crucial question about whether or not I’m wasting my life — about whether or not anyone is wasting his life — is ”what exactly [is] a good Christian supposed to do with his or her new life in Christ?” I posed the original question (am I wasting my life) …

Between Two Worlds: All of Grace:

Jerry Bridges, The Discipline of Grace (p. 19):

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace.

And your best days are never so good that you ...

”Something I’ve been thinking lately,” our dear webmaster Joe has recently written. ”Am I different as a Christian than I would be if I wasn’t a Christian? Am I just wasting my life?”

Then he linked to a rap video appearing to strenously urge its viewers not to knock over convenience stores. DON’T WASTE …

As unfinished work piles up each day at the office, I could certainly stand to remember this more. The To-Do Lists Are Never Done:

Only God gets his to-do list done each day.

This simple sentence informs how I begin my day, what I expect to accomplish during the day, …

I stumbled across a very interesting essay by Vern Poythress. In it, he talks about gender neutral Bibles (like the TNIV, the Good News Bible, the CEV, etc) and how they can change the meaning of the Biblical text in subtle ways.

Language nerds will probably understand and enjoy it the most, but I think his …

I saw an interesting article about the sociology of sex recently: Red Sex, Blue Sex. Specifically, the difference in attitudes between ”red” communities and ”blue” communities. One observation in particular really jumped out at me.

Social liberals in the country’s ”blue states” tend to support sex education and are not particularly troubled by the …