Why should a person believe in God?
In this world, it is hard to be sure of anything very interesting. I am not sure that my wife really loves me, cannot be sure that my children are my own (!), and cannot be positive that I will live to see the afternoon.
And yet . . . though there is little I can know beyond a doubt, there is much that I can know beyond a reasonable do...
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Cleverly concealed within the hard structure of the turtle's shell, dual miniature turbofan jet engines roar to life, sure to give him a competitive advantage when that cocky rabbit comes boasting of his superior landspeed. Pictured here with a satisfied smile at the moment of blast-off, the turtle flattens himelf out aerodynamically by tucking his head down and reaching out...
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To the Republican Leadership:
A republican form of government exists because opinion polls are not always correct. The "will of the people" at any given moment is not always what the people want when they pause to consider.
The Founders in their wisdom allowed the people (us) to elect representatives who could look at the big picture and vote for what was best for our na...
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The first ecumenical council was Nicaea, in the year 325. As all the later councils are at pains to attest, the Council of Nicaea is the most important of all the councils.
The heresy which provoked this epochal council was Arianism, the teaching that the pre-existent Logos who took on flesh in the incarnation was not God, but a great and exalted creature. Since he was t...
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I don't usually respond to letters from readers . . . because I have a day job and can hardly do all the things that it requires, but this one was interesting and captured the ideas in many letters and questions I get. It was also better written than most and so does not represent a "straw man."
The following is unedited and only the name has been removed.
My commen...
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There are a lot of parts to theology, and although over-specialization is always bad, some division of labor makes a lot of sense unless you're personally interested in earning degrees in everything from Hittite to Herodias to Haplography to Heidegger's Hermeneutics of Hegel's Historicism. Here's how I see the labor divided.
While the various theological disciplines are pe...
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Christology is one of the most important doctrines in all of theology, and also one of the most difficult. The standards of proof here are high, because the claims --that this man is God, one of the Trinity, the eternal Son-- are so outrageous. It is incumbent on all Christians, I think, to be able to make a clear declaration of who Jesus Christ is directly from Scripture. ...
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With a voice to make angels weep (he really is a great, professional singer), brains to spare, and programming skills (some people are just too competent) . . . a good friend is now blogging here.
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Ignorance of sophisticated religion is at the heart of much "anti-religious" nattering from atheists and skeptics.
It is hard to blame them since most schools don't require reading sophisticated religious writings and will purge religious writers (like John Locke) of religious references when they are read.
Since most of the world's population is religious, this is a s...
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The original Lerner/Lowe musical Camelot is a musical without a moral center . . . a confusing piece of early sixties fluff. It has some great tunes, no team that did My Fair Lady could do less, but a muddle of a book . . .something even sympathetic reviewers note.
Most important, is that the old Camelot is a play without a hero. It has a confused and impotent Arthur and tr...
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There is no reason to think that America and Iraq must lose the battle for a free and sovereign Iraqi nation.
What will happen if we do?
I have been reading about the fall of nations to see what would happen and the answer is far worse than anything now going on in Iraq.
The nightmare that would ensue makes a "quagmire" for the next two years look better.
The end o...
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Great Britain faced great global dangers in the 1920's and 1930's. She decided the Empire could not afford to rearm and feared war more than anything else.
Yet war with a still weak, but re-arming Germany could not be avoided. Britain could fight sooner or later, but it would have to fight. London would be bombed eventually, the question was on whose terms and in what kind ...
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