In Search of a Confident Faith (Ch.1, Pt.2): atheist annotations
Webmaster Joe is writing a series here on In Search of a Confident Faith, by J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler. His post on the first half of Chapter 1 is here; his post on the rest of it, here.
Being this blog’s loyal opposition (I am loyal to Joe and opposed to most of what …
In Search of a Confident Faith (Chapter 1, Part 2)
I’m going to continue talking about what I learned in Chapter 1 of In Search of a Confident Faith. Last week, I talked about the first half of Chapter 1.
In Search of a Confident Faith (Chapter 1, Part 1)
Several months ago, I started reading through In Search of a Confident Faith. I quickly discovered that it had a lot of good information that I both wanted to remember and wanted to pass along. I’m finally at the point where I managed to write about Chapter 1, so I’m now going to inflict my enthusiasm on you.
Political and Economic Wrangling Over the Pentateuch
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to learn that Adam already knows about this theory. But it was news to me and fairly fascinating to boot.
I just finished Richard Friedman’s Who Wrote the Bible? It’s a classic popularization of the Documentary Hypothesis, which claims that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the …
The Earth is the Lord's
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 …
Re: Is Joe Wasting His Life?
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) …
Is Joe Wasting His Life?
”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 …