Tag: Speculation
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Contemplating the Cosmos: The Martian Inquisition
“Why so many eager speculation and ardent fantasies about Martians, rather than, say, Saturnians or Plutonians? Because Mars seems, at first glance, very Earth-like. It is the nearest planet whose surface we can see. There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour…
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It Seems To Me
It seems to me that secular society has no reason to deny God as it does. After all, a tradition given to us by the philosophers of old, namely David Hume, suggests that things are the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. We judge the world today according to laws and phenomena that have always been,…
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Trusting in Tongues
This last week, Good Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, NC held a human scheduled revival in which we prayed for God to move. Though I am not sure the true benefit of having a human scheduled revival, I am sure that asking God to come and to move has powerful consequences, even if we…
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Where science encroaches, God is driven away.
We hear this statement on a daily basis, though perhaps not in so many words. My question, though, is not whether or not science and Christianity contradict one another. My question is whether or not this scientific stance against religion is a relatively new stance for people to take. For…
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Are You a Steve?
Today before church, my wife and I went to Bojangles to have some supper with some friends. While we were eating, someone sitting at the table adjacent to us turned and asked us a question concerning the gospel of Christ. He classified himself as an agnostic that believed in the existence of supernatural/unexplained events. He…
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Response to Contradictions in the Bible by reasonproject.org
bibleContra_big copy <<click to download and view original Reason Project PDF detailing perceived Biblical errancy. Perceived Contradiction #1 “How many men did the chief of David’s captain kill? 8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three.[a] He wielded his spear[b] against eight hundred…
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Response to Thinking Atheist: The Story of Salvation
I recently saw this picture from Thinking Atheist on a friends wall. My first instinct was to comment on the picture that he had posted, but he has a poor history of actually thinking about things. So, as I figured my comment would make little difference, I decided (perhaps in my own ignorance) to post…
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Marriage on the New Earth?
I have been married to my wonderful wife now for eight months and must say that the relationship is the second greatest experience that envelops my life (the first being the relationship I have with God). Here, though, is what bothers me concerning the marriage relationship: It is difficult, if not impossible, for me to…
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Darwinism, A Modern Day Myth?
Over the past few weeks we have looked at myths from other cultures in the past. We looked at the Enuma Elish, which was the first creation story ever recorded in writing. We looked at the Gilgamesh Flood, which portrayed with much similarity the flood in our own scriptures. We looked at variations within the…