Bifurcation in Beauty: Dualism of Spiritual/Sacred and Natural/Secular, Pt. 2
Part One Part Two Part Three Bodily Resurrection as Paradigm for Unity Regarding Beauty Jesus’ Bodily Resurrection The bodily resurrection of Jesus reveals a paradigm for the unified physical and spiritual. It contradicts a denigration of the physical. Bodies are not the product of chance. God created them and they have a purpose, […]
Bifurcation in Beauty: Dualism of Spiritual/Sacred and Natural/Secular
Part One Part Two You have heard, “Life imitating art or art imitating life.” In that vein, art imitates worldview.” Even when someone says, this is his worldview, his art may contradict what he says is his worldview. The art or his aesthetic is a better or more accurate expression of his worldview than […]
King Arthur and the Reality Of and Belief In the Supernatural: A Paradigm for Bifurcation of Truth
Part One The Story of King Arthur If you were like me, you heard the story of King Arthur and his Round Table as a child. The archaeologist Nowell Myers wrote: “No figure on the borderline of history and mythology has wasted more of the historian’s time.” I understand someone using his life to chase […]
The Requirement of Censorship with the Separation of Church and State: The Truth of the Bible Requires Institutional Adherence
Recent Twitter Files reveal widespread and coordinated censorship there. Where vile language acceptable, those speaking truth have lost their jobs. Long before, state institutions censored the most important truths in human history without recrimination. Before you continue, I offer you a guide. This post will move outside of most people’s box. I ask you not […]
Should True Churches Ascribe Perfection to the Apographa of Scripture? pt. 2
Part One Confidence, Absolutism, or Skepticism? A recent panel of friends decided on three categories of faith in the text of scripture: confidence, absolutism, and skepticism. They chose “confidence” and determined the other two to be false. Further explained, our present text of the Bible has what they consider minimal errors, which yields overall maximum […]
Keswick Theology: A Day in Keswick, Cumbria, the UK
Derwentwater, named after Lord Derwentwater, who was executed for treason, is a large lake in the English county of Cumbria, part of the Lake District National Park. On the northernmost tip of that lake is the small town of Keswick, a market town which name traces to the 13th century. In the 19th century it […]
Should True Churches Ascribe Perfection to the Apographa of Scripture?
Mark Ward and Ruckmanism A friend of mine alerted me to a reference of me in a Mark Ward production. It came under a click-bait title: “10 Ways to Avoid Ruckmanism.” I would contend I’m further away from Ruckmanism than Mark Ward himself, and I’ll explain that. In his first few sentences of a youtube […]
The Gospel Is the Power of God Unto Salvation, pt. 7
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Not long ago in evangelicalism, the terminology “lifestyle evangelism” arose. Early in this series, I wrote that the lifestyle is part of the message, but cannot replace the gospel itself. “The gospel is the power of God unto […]
The Significance of Mediation in Reconciliation and Relationship, pt. 5
Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Evangelism itself is a form of mediation, what the Apostle Paul calls “the ministry of reconciliation.” An evangelist mediates between God and a lost soul toward salvation. The sin of a soul offends God, one estranged from Him, and the evangelist mediates with the […]
Thomas Ross, February 18 Debate, Versus James White in Tullahoma, TN
Thomas Ross will debate James White with the proposition communicated in the above flyer for the debate. This relates to the historic doctrine of the preservation of scripture. Thomas Ross will defend the TR and King James Version and oppose the modern critical text and its methodology, especially with the underlying presupposition of the biblical […]
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