I used to be very involved in End Times prophecy. I suppose this depends on how you use the word "Very." I certainly read a lot and listened a lot back in my college days (40 years ago). Back then Hal Lindsey and Jack Van Impe were all over the place. This was before the …
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Is sharing the Good News of Christ always a good thing? In theory it always is… but theory can fall apart when bumping up against reality. I will give a few little examples that I have shared before, but then will put more focus on the last one since I haven’t talked of it before. …
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One of my favorite topics is that of Doubt and Faith. I have long believed that doubt is not bad... but it is a precursor to faith. Recently I read an Islamic article where the writer said that doubt is a healthy first step to Islam with doubt leading to belief. I think I will …
I was listening to a podcast. It is a series called "God After Deconstruction" hosted by Thomas Jay Oord and Tripp Fuller. The two hosts have gone through somewhat of a "deconstruction" of their faith and understanding of God over the years. Oord was raised up and active in the Church of the Nazarene, while …
How does one value one's Faith. In this case, I am using "faith" to mean the religious belief system one adheres to in some way. I saw something interesting in the book THE SKILLED HELPER, by Gerald Egan (I am quoting from the 1975 version). "A value, according to Raths and Simon (1966) is something …
CategorySub-CategoryBrief DescriptionAtheistPositive AtheistPositively believes in the non-existence of a supreme personal God/beingAtheistNegative AtheistStates lack of belief in a supreme personal God/beingAgnosticClosed AgnosticDoesn't know if there is a God, and doesn't believe it is something knowable.Agnostic"Ignostic"Doesn't know if there is a God, and doesn't really care.AgnosticOpen AgnosticDoesn't know if there is a God, but would like …
I am a big fan of doubt---- because, in part, I am a big fan of faith. I believe faith is empowered by doubt. As such, faith is damaged by dogma--- not in the sense of holding onto core beliefs, but dogma in terms of training people to conform to beliefs without allowing them the …
I have been going over different Asian religions in my Dialogue in Asian Religions course. I started with Judaism in Western Asia and worked my way across to Shinto in the East. Now I am looking at Atheism. Atheism has deep roots in Asia. Some forms of Buddhism and Hinduism could be described as Atheistic, …
There have been some recently-in-the-news people who are famous for being Christian, who have "left the faith." One of these is Josh Harris. When I was dating age (decades ago), he wrote a book called, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye." I never read it. Marty Sampson, a member of Hillsong, also publicly announced his loss of …
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Please click on the link at the bottom of this post for an article from Jackson Wu that then links to the related article in Relevant Magazine. It is an interesting case study of a Christian who gradually moved to atheism. The seeming cause was a lack of openness in his church to dialogue and …
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