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The Capitol Hill Chaos: Votes Canceled and Voices Censored Equal Violent Circumstances
The founders declared, “No taxation without representation,” as a clarion theme leading to revolution. No representation meant no vote and no voice, which lead to violent circumstances. Two systems of justice existed, one on English soil and another in the American colonies, so mobs terrified the stamp tax agents, leading to its repeal, then triggered […]
Evolution’s Strongest Argument–Creationists are Ignorant! & the Cosmological Argument Examined
Class #1 of my Evidences for Creation class is now available. In it, the strongest argument for evolution–which is not any particular fact, but the claim that creationists cannot really do science and are ignorant–is examined, as is the cosmological argument. At the end, the outline for the class, which was on themes in Genesis, […]
Tremendous Questions from God for Every Millennial to Read in Genesis 4 and the Example of Cain
Both Cain and Abel were religious people. We can read in Genesis 4 that they both even worshiped the same God. Cain was a monotheist. I think I can safely speculate in saying that Adam and Eve talked and talked and talked ad infinitum, ad nauseum, about sin and the fall, warning after warning after […]
The Ugliness That Is The New Beauty and In Stark Contrast to the True Beauty of the Throne Room of God
Part One Part Two One could call the throne room of God the operations center for all the universe. It is also a model or paradigm for man for beauty, truth, and goodness. Hebrews calls it the “true tabernacle” (Hebrews 8:2), an example for the earthly one (Hebrews 8:2). Just like man was made […]
God’s Name Jehovah: What Does It Mean?
I thought that the classical statement below on the significance of the name Jehovah in the very helpful 17th century systematic theology The Christian’s Reasonable Service by Wilhemus á Brakel, theologian of the Dutch Nadere Reformatie or Further/Second Reformation, which was comparable to English Puritanism, was worth reprinting and thinking about. I have reproduced it […]
Ugly Is the New Beauty and How This Is the Deceptive On Ramp Onto and Then Fast Lane Of the Broad Road to Destruction, Part Two
Part One I see ugliness all over today, and it’s not just something generational, that is, what happens every generation with older people not liking the latest with the younger ones. We live in a culture that glories in ugliness. In most cases, the uglier the better. This occurs when God stops being the standard. […]
Ugly Is the New Beauty and How This Is the Deceptive On Ramp Onto and Then Fast Lane Of the Broad Road to Destruction
I’ve been writing on this subject a lot and for a long time, but among the few things that motivated me to write this one was a new book written by Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of Modern Self. This is not an endorsement. I haven’t read the book. I just thought that people […]
The Tetragrammaton and the Incarnation–A Hebrew Connection?
George Sayles Bishop, contributor to The Fundamentals (George S. Bishop, Chapter IV: The Testimony of the Scriptures to Themselves, in The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, ed. R. A. Torrey, vol. 2 [Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2005], 80-96), defender of the inspiration and preservation of Scripture and opponent of higher criticism and secular lower […]
The Most Difficult Issues for a Church
This could be a part two to the first post this week. Thirty-three years ago, my wife and I, married two weeks, moved with nothing to California, the San Francisco Bay Area, to start a church. We stayed until July of this year, 2020, when we moved to Southern Oregon, Jackson County, to begin again. […]
What Is the Extent that Churches Should Try to “Keep” People? Is It Even Right At All?
If the Bible is the authority for faith and practice, the faith and practice will correspond to or reflect the Bible. God keeps people saved (1 Peter 1:5). Saved people won’t eject from the church (1 John 2:19). If that is the faith and practice of the Bible, then God keeps people in a church. […]
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