Religion

New Thought on the Bible and the Gospel

Posted by on May 18, 2025 at 8:25 pm

“Take every Christian definition you can think of. Then redefine it with a super spiritual metamystigorical definition. There. Now you have New Thought.” — Melissa Dougherty, Happy Lies I hadn’t originally planned on doing another post citing Dougherty’s book this week, but… that’s how it turned out. Funny thing is, this section actually comes from […]

Truth, Lies, and the Dangers of Relativism

Posted by on May 11, 2025 at 6:43 pm

“Nobody can ‘live their truth’ for long. Everyone knows this.” — Melissa Dougherty, Happy Lies I have addressed the issue of relativism in the past. But, it’s always good to have a reminder of the causes and consequences of this faulty mindset. The citation below comes from the new book, Happy Lies, by Melissa Dougherty. […]

My Take on the Emergency Circumcision in Exodus 4

Posted by on April 27, 2025 at 10:32 pm

Having already addressed the Genesis 6 issues in “My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6” and the awkwardness of Genesis 9 in “My Take on Noah’s Drunken Nakedness and the Sin of Ham in Genesis 9”, it’s now time I finally took a shot at this seemingly out-of-the blue attack […]

4 Easter-Related Archaeological Finds

Posted by on April 20, 2025 at 2:54 pm

“Instead of fiction and fairy tales, archaeology indicates that the Bible preserves an accurate recounting of the history addressed in its pages.” — Titus Kennedy, writer, professor, and professional field archaeologist I bought a new book — Unearthing the Bible, by Dr. Titus Kennedy — that I’ll be reading through soon-ish. I was flipping through […]

How Does the Bible Teach Us?

Posted by on March 23, 2025 at 7:35 pm

One of the books I’ve been reading lately is Decision Making God’s Way by Gary T. Meadors. It has some good stuff in it and, as usual, I keep an eye out for sections that might make good articles in themselves. So, this week I have an excerpt that talks about, you guessed it, the […]

My Take on Noah’s Drunken Nakedness and the Sin of Ham in Genesis 9

Posted by on March 16, 2025 at 8:01 pm

The other week I posted “My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6”, wherein I reviewed four Study Bible commentaries regarding Gen. 6:1-4 (from two previous posts) along with a couple extra sources. This week I’m doing basically the same thing but for a longer passage, Gen. 9:18-29. As before, I […]

Is Calvinism a Form of Determinism?

Posted by on March 9, 2025 at 8:46 pm

Derick Dickens is a professor, speaker, and writer in the Reformed Presbyterian tradition. He is also a Facebook “friend”, so I see his posts and have cited him at least a couple times on this blog. This week’s “article” is based on Derick’s response to someone else (probably on FB) in a discussion about Calvinist […]

My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6

Posted by on February 16, 2025 at 8:34 pm

If the topic revealed in this post’s title sounds somewhat familiar, it may be because roughly a year ago I began my “What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?” series with the opening lines from Genesis 6. In those posts, I laid out what four of the best Study Bibles had to say about […]

YouTube Channels I Enjoy and You Might, Too: Bible & Religion

Posted by on February 2, 2025 at 8:03 pm

A few more YouTube recommendations for you… Readers may remember that last Fall I wrote two posts in which I shared YouTube channels that I enjoy watching on topics of “Science & Tech” and “Politics & Culture”. This third post rounds out the main topics covered in this blog with “Bible & Religion”. Of course, […]

The Principle of Sphere Sovereignty, Part 2 of 2

Posted by on January 19, 2025 at 6:34 pm

“Increasingly, the citizen stands denuded before the total state, stripped of the protection of mediating non-civil private institutions and even of the inherited liberties of private civil law.” — Joe Boot In last week’s Part 1, Dr. Joseph Boot commented on failed attempts at church/state/society relationships due to both faulty designs and abuses by those […]