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 […]
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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 […]
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is VERY different from historic, biblical Christianity. One simple question makes this plain. How Many Gods are There in All of Reality and All of Existence? Although Mormons call themselves Christians, and use many of the same terms as Christians (Jesus, God, Bible), the religion of the […]
The Bible teaches that it is possible to know what will happen to humans after physical death. This is not a knowledge that can be learned through human reasoning or scientific inquiry or even through mere experience (our experience or the experience of others). Our knowledge about the afterlife of humans is a knowledge given […]
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Justice and Worldviews
Justice and Worldviews We are discussing justice this Saturday at our intellectual discussion group. We ALL long to see justice take place, to see evil punished and the right and good vindicated. We long to see the oppressed delivered and the enslaved set free. How does one explain these desires and the longing for justice? […]
How do you view the question of ultimate authority? And what are the implications concerning other questions of reality? An ultimate authority is an authority that transcends all other authorities and is understood to have legitimate—not arbitrary—rights to govern and rule. As a Christian, I would argue that God is the ultimate authority of all […]
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Humor and the Gospel
As a Christian I recognize that humor is a gift from God, a God who Himself laughs (Ps 2:4). Humor is meant to be enjoyed and to build others up: it can be used to bring a person into the truth and bring joy and delight and healing. But there is something desperately, wrong with […]
