The REAL Jesus is better than the False Jesus of the ‘Spiritual but not Religious’ I know its offensive to claim to that some views about God are wrong and others right, but that really is the way of reality. And I want to contend that REAL Jesus—revealed in Christianity and presented in the Bible—is […]
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5 Dangers of a “Do-it-Yourself Spirituality” Recently, I have been having more conversations with those who identify as “spiritual” but not religious. These individuals do not align themselves with a particular religion, but they highly value the spiritual realm. As a Christian, I appreciate their openness to what is beyond the physical: there is more […]
How Do We Establish a Consistent Worldview? Building and maintaining a well thought out worldview is critical to how we make sense of things and how we understand reality. Therefore, it is imperative that our worldview is both coherent and consistent. Yet it is quite common for people to profess a particular worldview while at […]
Guest Post: “Where does our Sense of Morality and Justice Come From?” (Tsouloufis) Religion (true religion) brings a sense of meaning, purpose, and moral order to our lives and our communities. Yet if there is no God, where would we get our sense of right and wrong, or our sense of fairness and justice? If […]
Race is a Darwinian concept. Darwin was, after all, a man of his time, class, and society. He divided humanity into distinct races according to differences in skin, eye, or hair color. He was also convinced that evolution was progressive, and that the white races—especially the Europeans—were evolutionarily more advanced than the black races, thus establishing race […]
WIFE OF GOD? A Contrast between Christianity and Mormonism Does God have a wife? How you answer this reveals what kind of God you believe in. It also demonstrates how wide is the divide between historic biblical Christianity and that of Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). The accepted teaching of Mormonism is […]
A Few Thoughts On Marriage from A Christian Perspective -God‘s good design for marriage is one man and one woman. -A husband or wife cannot, and will not, bring ultimate full and lasting satisfaction to your soul. No human relationship (romantic or friend or family) can absolutely complete you. A spouse is a precious gift, […]
HAPPINESS: A Biblical Perspective God is the “happy” God of reality. In 1 Tim 6:15 we see God described as the “blessed and only Sovereign”—in the Greek the word for “blessed” is makarios¸ which could be translated happy. God is happy within his own Triune nature and has no needs from outside of Himself to […]
ANIMALS, ANIMAL SUFFERING, AND THE FUTURE: TWO CONTRASTING VIEWS—CHRISTIANITY AND ATHEISM/AGNOSTICISM How do we think about animals? What about animal suffering? What about the future? The following is a contrast between a Christian worldview and a secular worldview, namely that of atheism or agnosticism. CHRISTIANITY: God is real and exists and has revealed Himself through […]
A Biblical Theology of Anger by Dan Tsouloufis Regarding a biblical definition of anger, one helpful definition is from Robert Jones in his book Uprooting Anger: “Anger is the whole person’s active response of negative moral judgment against a perceived evil.” A brief way to summarize anger is that it is a displeasure in our […]
