Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2006 | No Comments »
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The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org has just become informed that the three Christian men facing the death penalty in Indonesia have [...]
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Posted in Faith & Reason on September 21, 2006 | No Comments »
From Saint Augustine’s On Christian Teaching:
“. . . This spiritual Israel is distinguished from the fleshly Israel, consisting of a single people, by the novelty of grace, not by nobility of race, and by mentality, not nationality. But such is the prophets profundity that while speaking about the former and indeed too the former he [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2006 | 4 Comments »
(As presented in James W. Sire, The Universe Next Door)
Strengths. Theistic existentialism begins with some of the same propositions of classic theism. It starts with the existence and triune nature of God, and his character as shown in Scripture. God is infinite, benevolent, and sovereign. Theistic existentialism sees the universe as being [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Why do Christians who oppose the death penalty generally tend to be pro-abortion? Seems fundamentally inconsistent if they really have a consistent ethic of human life. Unless that ethic is utilitarian. Which doesn’t make sense if they call themselves Christians.
Thoughts?
How can those who have displayed a flagrant disregard for humanity be more worthy of life [...]
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How are we to develop a comprehensive worldview? Abraham Kuyper provides some insights.
“From a special principle a peculiar insight [must] be obtained into the three fundamental relations of all human life: viz., (1) our relation to God, (2) our relation to man, and (3) our relation to the world.” (Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism, Grand Rapids, [...]
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