A friend of mine asked the question (summarized) “why do you hold to the Reformist/Calvinist view?” The answer that I started writing became so long that it wouldn’t fit inside a Facebook comment, and I thought it might be better to post it here. It is pretty well assumed that if someone is serious about [...]
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Filed under: Theology
Social Tagging: movie review • Politics • review • rockets • space • theology
I just got done watching “Space Race”, a four-part series which re-enacted the rise of rockets, starting from the early German V-2 series rocket and ending with the Apollo mission. I review some points, including Wernher von Brauns use of forced slavery to build the V-@ rocket.
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Social Tagging: adultery • poverty • proverbs
This morning’s reading included Proverbs chapter 6, which has a few verses which I have been thinking about. The writer talks about the “seductress” in verses 24-35, where he says that the law is a light which keeps you from her. The two verse sections of interest to me were in 27-28, which says Can [...]
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Social Tagging: Paul the Apostle • spiritual blindness • wisdom
On Sunday my pastor talked about the idea of spiritual blindness, reading about the concept in Acts 28:17-27, where Paul tells of how he got to Rome. Though Paul had done nothing against the Jewish customs, the leaders had accused him. When he was examined by the civil authorities, they found nothing against him, yet the Jews wanted to put him to death.
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