Wonderful Matters

Just wanted to give out a heads-up to a fine article in my new fave webzine, The Federalist . Even though it typically blaps the standard "Fix things by the System" line as most do anyway, it does produce very smart, articulate, insightful monographs. The one of particular interest here was about religious non-profits and how endangered they are because of the imminent ruling from the Supreme Court telling us all we must wholeheartedly bless same-sex "marriage". Religious institutions that brashly stand on their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit status will find that their obligation to Cain's Administration condemns them for their hypocrisy and subject to Caesar's ruthless enforcement of laws against it. As it is such institutions have been coddled, mostly because they are, after all, servants of Cain and his seven-fold power -- it is just they do this work ecclesiastically. In other words, 501c3 churches do the pounding and hammering and shoving of the l...

There's that bumper sticker, you know, "Stupidity Should Be Painful." I actually think it is painful, it's just so many stupid people simply smile through the agony. I saw a meme the other day, something along those lines, something like, "When you die, after you're dead you don't know you're dead and others have to feel the pain. It's the same thing with stupidity." I think that's the tragic part about stupid people. It's painful for them and  for others, and they don't even know it. I was reading tonight in the Word, and came across one of those several places where the Bible's version of these memes appears. Really, the Bible says a lot about stupidity. This one was originally in the sixth chapter of Isaiah. There it is again in the 13th chapter of Matthew: "People don't understand when they could understand, and they remain really stupid." Really, that's about what it says. Check it out, you'll ...

The past two days during my devotional time I've read the 17th and 18th chapters of the first book of Kings. If you know what's in those two chapters, you know we are introduced to one of the greatest prophets of them all, Elijah. First we find Elijah commissioned by God to tell King Ahab what's what. He's told to go to a place to wait but resources are very scarce because of a famine. Yet God still provides . No matter what, his resources do not run out. Then he visits a woman and her son who consider themselves about to die because of the famine, but Elijah assures her, your resources will not run out . The boy later gets ill and dies, but Elijah brings him back to life. God is a God of resurrection from the dead, of eternal life. Elijah finally confronts Ahab, but it is much more about his challenge to Baal, the pagan god Ahab has authorized the people of Israel to worship. Elijah asks the people, "So, who is it? God or Baal?" What a question . I th...

That thing in Indiana is still going on, with everyone up in arms about it all one way or another. Much of that is in response to the presentation , not the truth about things, but then this is something I wrote a bit about in my latest home page piece . I felt like adding a bit more in this post, just some things I'd thought about since my post of yesterday . 1. The idea of "discrimination" has become such a sacred cow that the mere mention of it is designed to stir up passions, mostly negative. The reigning rent-extractors send the word right into the bilge pump of presently splattered cultural nomenclature and voila , they get what they want. Too bad there are too many who refuse to think carefully about it. Fact is we all discriminate about all kinds of things all the time. Restaurants may not discriminate against blacks, but they certainly will discriminate against someone sitting at a table but firing a loaded weapon into the ceiling every two minutes. This ...

The latest culture war whirlwind comes out of Indiana, where lawmakers recently passed a bill ensuring that people who object to homosexual things have protection. It is now one of the top stories the mainstream media is running, showing protesters and showcasing all the powerful individual and business interests squawking and threatening to refuse to do further business in such an "intolerant and bigoted" place. Did no one else see this coming? As soon as we're all convinced that the position to hold is: it is no big deal if someone does sexually abusive things in their own homes, just don't force us to approve of it, then we've lost the war. If it is just a matter of preference, then what difference does it make what anyone does. The only way to make the case so it actually has meaning is to hold without equivocation that wanton homosexual activity is a crime, and that expressively willful endorsement of it is as well. Sorry, but society agrees that a number...

My latest home page piece  gets into the truth that the truth is simple, the presentation is complicated. What does that mean, the presentation ? Head on over there , read what I've written. I'd love to know your thoughts, email me. As it is, I'm always seeing examples of this, and I thought I'd share a few. Each one of these represents a way in which the World System mouthpieces work hard to make the complicated presentation look a bit more easy to understand, while the truth is people who soak up the presentation are being put on greased slides straight to hell. The first is about the 379 companies who've signed a "friend of the court" brief in the Supreme Court signifying their endorsement of the institutional sanctioning of sexual violence, more specifically same-sex marriage. All of the rigmarole swirling around this subject is all complication, and we could get deep into the discourse. I'm ready for that. But the truth is simple. God made m...

A couple weeks ago I attended the Biola apologetics event "God, Science, and the Big Questions." It featured three of the giants in Christian apologetics, John Lennox, William Lane Craig, and J.P. Moreland. The Biola gymnasium was packed, so it was encouraging that there is always great interest in the big questions. I'm just not so sure we've quite got the answers down, however. Actually most of the answers provided by these scholars were pretty decent. Most were standard-issue apologetics responses, that's fine. Some were ones I hadn't heard before, a few downright sobering. I truly liked Lennox' reference to the creation of Adam and Eve and the resurrection of Christ as "singularity" events, much like the Big Bang. The item I want to address here, now, is one that I believe we in the apologetics community do a thoroughly crappy job of answering, and sure enough, it was the final question of the entire evening's forum. These particula...