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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Louis Berkhof on the origin of religion

Posted on February 26, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Summary of Christian Religion

Particular attention was devoted during the last fifty years to the problem of the origin of religion. Repeated attempts were made to give a natural explanation of it, but without success. Some spoke of it as an invention of cunning and deceptive priests, who regarded it as an easy source of revenue; but this explanation […]

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Resisting Change

A Lesson From Eli – Do not let comfort keep you from doing right

Comfort can make us resistant to necessary changes. Eli knew his sons were doing wrong but failed to offer correction. He can learn from him

Five

5 Reasons why I moved to self-hosted WordPress Blog

If you are reading this you found my new blog home. I’ve moved from WordPress.com to an external hosting service and thought I’d share the reasons why. Javascript – There are widgets that I’d like to add to my blog that contain Javascript that WordPress.com does not allow. This reduces the capabilities of my blog […]

Paracites

Parasites vs. Producers – From Nebuchadnezzar to Wall Street

There have always been human parasites. God hates injustice and the church needs to know that parasites gather around political power.

Question 7

What are the decrees of God?

There is nothing that happens in the world that takes God by surprise. When our first parents rebelled against God by eating the fruit, God had a plan already in place to send Jesus to fix the resulting mess.

Did God actually say . . . ?

From the first, our rebellion against God has taken the form of questioning the wisdom of His statements and prohibitions. We see this today as popular atheists are lining up to ridicule God and the Bible. To do so requires that the atheist sets himself up as the authority as to what is right and […]

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