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I just recently watched the mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven. It wasn’t very complementary to the Mormon church. But it did get me to thinking, mainly about Joseph Smith. I’m not going to take this time to deconstruct the man or speculate his sanity and morality. Instead, I’m going to give him the benefit…
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The Carl Sagan quote, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard. It is almost always given by atheists to the religious with a smug grin as if proves something. However, they never define “extraordinary evidence.” Atheists will often say they can’t accept a miracle because it can be…
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Most Americans when asked if they believe there’s intelligent life somewhere else in the universe will give an enthusiastic yes. They will site that with all the billions of stars in the Milky Way and with the trillion of galaxies in the universe the odds prove there has to be life out there and intelligent…
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Lately I’ve been reading the Bible with a Greek Interlinear. (That’s the wonder of the internet. You have easy access to so many study aids.) And I was reading the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. There were several that struck me reading it as a word for word translation. The first was “Blessed…
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I’ve recently watched the old HBO film Conspiracy. It’s a reenactment of the Wannsee Conference. Having personally experienced several bureaucratic meetings I would have thought this would be one of the most boring movies ever made, but it was riveting. This was the conference where the SS hammered out the “Final Solution to the Jewish…
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I’ve heard many, both believers and nonbelievers ask, “How can a loving God send anyone to hell?” To which I respond, “He has to send people to hell because He is a loving God.” I know that surprises you, and it seems like an oxymoron, but let me explain. First let us consider what hell…
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In a previous post I said that I felt uncomfortable with the “Jesus Gets Us” commercial form the Super Bowl. Sence then I came across this video. It was titled “The commercial that should have been at the Super Bowl.” To which I say AMEN AND AMEN!!!
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Recently my Bible class at church attempted a chronological study of the life of Christ. By that I mean they are trying to take the events listed in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and as best could be surmised placing them in the historic order they happened. (I have a feeling this is a response…
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Albert Einstein hated Quantum Mechanics. He didn’t mind the field of study, but he felt the methods were lacking since a probabilistic model was used, and he believed only deterministic models could and should express nature. It was because of his dislike of Quantum Mechanics probability model he gave his famous statement, “God does not…
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I’ve been watching the television show Fargo for the last few weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous seasons with all the quirky characters and unusual stories. I was really looking forward to this season since it was starring Juno Templeton and I’ve become a fan after seeing her in Ted Lasso. But I have to…
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I was watching Melissa Dougherty’s YouTube video on the “Jesus Gets Us” campaign. She was rather scathing in her analysis, and I have to admit I was a little uneasy about those ads shown during Super Bowl LVIII. I had the feeling that the ads were just off, but I hadn’t yet found the explanation…
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There is a tendency by many in the West to judge Islam by the life of Mohammad rather than the words he gave in the Koran. Finally, someone asked, “Should we listen only to his words ignoring his weaknesses and foibles, or allow only his actions to speak?” The answer, like so many things, is…
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