The Chosen The story of the followers and supporting characters surrounding a certain itinerant apocalyptic Jewish preacher in 1st century Roman-occupied Near East get a closer examination. Not sci-fi nor fantasy, but it involves real life supernatural lore so I think this qualifies. There’s going to be a lot of strong feelings either way about … Sci-fi and Fantasy Movies and Series Reviews, Part 51
In no particular order, except the last one. Open source and free of charge. Take these and run with them! Eyeless From Matthew 5:29-30, or even Samson from Judges 16. Yes, it’s a Slipknot song from arguably their best album, so metal bands may have to contend with that comparison. Searching “eyeless band” on the … Use These Band Name Ideas
The modern western mind, soaked in democracy and equality, bristles at God keeping a man within His good graces despite his terminally bad performance. I suppose the gross unfairness appeals to me personally because my personal failures are various and sundry, and I can be acutely aware of them at times. I’ve heard pastors calling … Heiser on Believing Loyalty
From the Naked Bible podcast, episode 8 (Spotify, YouTube): So how does this help us understand the passage? Briefly, baptism is not what produces salvation. It saves, in that it first involves or reflects a heart decision, a pledge of loyalty to the risen Savior. In effect, baptism in New Testament theology is a loyalty … Heiser on Baptism
Futile Philosophy 4 (mirrored on archive.org): Futile Philosophy 4 23 October 2021 If you rely on what your senses and reason tell you, you’ll never understand reality. From our human capabilities, we surmise that nature is totally unconcerned about us, if not outright hostile at times. This is false. Jesus boldly spoke to supposedly inanimate … Catacomb Resident: Futile Philosophy 4
What Catacomb Resident is explaining here is similar to Alvin Plantinga’s sensus divinatus, the faculty that senses and processes ideas about metaphysical things as a form of a priori knowledge, just as philosophically legitimate as the physical senses or logic. Our sensus divinatus is damaged by default because of the Fall, since we are tied … Catacomb Resident: Futile Philosophy 2
Futile Philosophy 1 (mirrored on archive.org) Futile Philosophy 1 20 October 2021 This may be a little too cerebral for some readers. It’s normally pointless to discuss philosophical basics. Most people don’t understand the discussion, and those who do often don’t actually walk by it, and cannot seem to translate it very well for those … Catacomb Resident: Futile Philosophy 1
Ed scanned a calendar he had on his wall: an ancient Hebrew calendar with the modern Gregorian calendar within it, for comparison’s sake. Interesting design, and for sure there are other ones like it if you search, and it lends itself easily to making it dynamic. It could be a website…as in, only a website—please, … Someone Should Make a Dynamic Ancient Hebrew Calendar
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or Facebook might know I took up a project to summarize all 66 books of the Bible, roughly one book per day. I recently finished all the books and I thought it would be best to publish them all in one grand blog post. A tweet-dump motherlode … Bible Book Summaries: The Criterion Collection