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
Some decent thoughts here, with requisite spoiler warnings if you haven’t seen the entire film. The film is, however, must-see for science-fiction or technology/futurist enthusiasts, as long as you’ve already gotten past the “animation is for kids” reservation that you may have. If you haven’t yet, please do get past that assumption before watching it … Video: Ghost in the Shell vs. The Matrix Analysis
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
Wintery Knight has a good summary-type of post on the view of early church on Jesus’ divine nature, using the 1 Corinthians and Phillipians letters, Mark’s gospel, and then hitting the Q document. One of the strongest historo-logical (?) arguments, I think, against the Jesus’ divinity is that if you put crucial passages in chronological … Jesus’ Divinity as Embellishment or Doctrine