The Bible and the Word of God: are the two synonymous? Many Christians would say that they are; and if the Bible is the Word of God, how could they not be?
I c...
For this Fish Tank post, I thought I'd share a letter I recently wrote to Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum about baptism and God's plan of salvation. Mr. Edel...
The one Old Testament story that I will never forget is the Binding of Isaac.
It is not a particularly comforting story, nor one amenable to our modern dis...
Several times, people have asked me how their lives would change if they became Christians - besides the whole church thing, of course. (Conversely, many Christ...
(N.B.: The term "fundamentalist" is almost always used pejoratively to connote particularly annoying or ignorant Christians. I do not mean to use it in this sen...
Most of us have heard of "God of the gaps" arguments, arguments that argue for the existence of God from "gaps" in the scientific record. If Science cannot expl...
In the past couple months, I have become more and more interested in the nature of the Atonement. I have read a few different articles on the subject, inclu...
A drawing by René Descartes illustrating his understanding of dualism
Does Christianity imply “dualism”? Many people – especially outsiders – think so. ...
“You do not possess the truth; it is the truth that possesses you.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate (1259)
I. TO BE OR NOT TO BE
“Why,...
