It happens to me regularly: I indulge prolonged thought on ideas that most people take for granted as established truth or tradition and so beyond critique or questioning. As the Apostle Paul says in the Bible “bear with me in …
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What’s Your Crutch?
Religious folk, especially those exposed to intellectually proud colleagues or friends, are often dismissed as having religion as a crutch. A Christian writer (Greg Koukl) for whom I have the profoundest intellectual regard e-mailed me some of his short thoughts …
The Trinity: Primer
Within Christianity, there are three basic groupings concerning the composition of the Godhead. There are trinitarians, binitarians and unitarians or ‘oneness’.
Trinitarians hold that the biblical testimony reveals that the term ‘God’ is applied to three distinct persons, described as Father, …
Jehovah: Bona Fide or Bogus Name?
Though Jehovah’s Witnesses proudly assert that the only proper name for God is Jehovah there is evidence, available for years now, that the word Jehovah is not even a defensible name for God, based on the Bible.
Charles T. Russell’s …
Prof. Nettleford and the Bogus Tomb of Jesus Christ
If you watched or only heard about the Discovery Channel program on ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’, I hope you did not lose any sleep over it. This is just another late but failed attempt at sowing seeds of doubt …
Ancient Events: Proving them how?
The chain of events from the incarnation through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ has been called the Christ event.
I would declare, without fear of contradiction, that this Christ event, in terms of its fact and significance, has …