Growing up a Christian in America, my understanding of the cross and effects of it is filtered primarily through a penal substitutionary lens. Essentially, this view holds that on the cross, Christ stood in as a “substitute” for us and received the punishment for our “penalty” of sin. We as humans our imperfect and sin, […]
There’s a lot of debate within the Christian sphere on how life actually came to be. Within this debate, there are three main camps people fall into. There is theistic evolution, Intelligent Design, and Creationism. I personally haven’t invested a large amount of research into this area and so don’t have a very strong position […]
Science is such a beautiful thing. It has been the mode of discovering so many deep and mysterious truths about existence. It has given us so much understanding about how the world works and functions. It has been used to bring about inventions, medicine, advancements, and just general truths about the physical world. The success […]
Morality is so instrumental and pervasive in humanity, it’s possibly one of the only things that holds us all together. There are differing opinions about what’s right and what’s wrong, a spectrum of ideas on what’s good and what’s bad. And even when there’s agreeance on those things, coming to a consensus on the correct […]
I want to propose that God treats “His people” different than He treats other people. Before I get into it, I need to set the scene and do a little work to show where I’m coming from. I think one of the most common mistakes people make with God is incorrectly assigning Him obligatory acts. […]
Are you saved? Have you ever had anyone ask you that question? Outside the Christian community, I think this concept of being “saved” sometimes can be difficult to understand what it really means. Even within the Christian community I think this term and concept is misunderstood. Like most things in life, there are multiple ways […]
I will start off by admitting to my biases. As a Christian, I have a biased nature to think that there is something as objective truth, meaning there are ideas and concepts and beliefs and moral systems and philosophic systems that are just wrong and incorrect, regardless of whether everyone believes them or doesn’t believe […]
Hell may be the most difficult and offensive doctrine of all Christian doctrines. In its most simple description, it is eternal separation from God. When you look into that just a little deeper, you see the horror it predicts. Christians affirm that God is good and that all good things come from God. This means […]
In philosophy, there’s an age-old question about the nature of good. Namely, what is good, and by what standard do we use to judge what good is? Now, I’m not planning on going into the arguments for what people have said about this question, and how they have gotten there. I more so just want […]
God. Is He from fiction, or from reality? Is He for the intellectually curious, or the gullible? Did He make man, or did man make Him? Is it His uniqueness that has kept Him relevant, or is it that somehow He’s still relevant, which is His only unique quality? Is Yahweh just an ancient myth, […]
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