Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Getting saved
When I was a child, and even now our pastor calls for people who don't yet know Christ as their personal savior, to come forward or pray to get saved. This decision somehow transfers the person from darkness to light. Although I believe in making decisions and I believe that some follow God and...
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Monday, December 19, 2005
The Authority of Scripture
Christians have been given a book to live by. But most of us consider it optional whether or not we do what it says. How sad. We could avoid many of life's problems if we would consider what it says and do it. For example, considering divorce. If you truly believed that God did not want you to...
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Virtuous Atheists
Christians are not the only ones who can be kind, loving and unselfish. Sometimes it seems as if Christians are only self righteous and rude. Why else would some Christians like Rush Limbaugh? I believe that since we are made in God´s image, that there is so much to love about every human being....
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Christian View of Self
This is an area of great confusion. Some think that we should be totally without self, others that we become truly ourselves. When I wrote two columns ago, I did not mean that we get rid of ourselves but that we become unselfish and that we stop being self-centered. The best way to express ourselves...
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Friday, December 9, 2005
When I feed the poor, I am feeding Christ
There is a mistaken idea that helping the poor is enabling them to be poor. In some cases that may be true, but not entirely. Why is the person poor? Are they poor because they are mentally ill, then they need help. Are they poor because of a family illness which stripped them of all their...
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
Religion for Me
So much of American religion, no matter what one, is about me. What will make me feel good, what will make my life better, what will give me power, health or a brand new car--that it the purpose of American religion. After all, we are given the incentive by the Declaration of Independence to pursue...
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
Viewing the World with God's Eyes
Today I'm depressed. I see the world with the glass half empty. Reality depends on the viewer. My view is skewed by my feelings. All of us whether depressed, happy or neutral view the world through our feelings, belief system and experience. Only a God's eye view can see the real picture. Like a...
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Saturday, October 8, 2005
Why I don't support my argument with scripture.
If I debating a Muslim and he quote the Koran, his argument would not be convincing. Unless he used the Koran to explain what he believed and why, then quoting the Koran would help me understand his religion better. The Koran is not a valid reference to me. The same is true of the Bible, unless you...
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The Game Agnostics Play
Get in your best shot, Christian. Give me an argument for God and or the Bible that I can't shoot down. Missed again. Those translations contradict each other. How can you possible believe in something written over time with unknown authors and no way of authenicating it. So obviously, the Bible is...
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Friday, October 7, 2005
Reason and Error
To those who hate religion, reason seems to be the only way of making sense of the world. The problem with reason is that it is colored by our emotions. So although we make make what we think is a logical argument, it is no more certain than anything else in the world. We cannot be objective since...
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