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It’s Raining Cats and Dogs…Run For Your Lives!!!
Consider this fictitious journal entry:
“I had a horrible day today. This morning I lost my job. I went out to lunch with my girlfriend, and when I began telling her about it, she interrupted me and told me she wanted to break up. On my way home from that wonderful lunch, I lost control of my car and spun off the road into a ditch. To make matters worse, it was raining cats and dogs.” Read more »
The “Problem” of Pain…
On February 22, 20/20 aired a special on “medical mysteries.” It covered people born without the ability to feel pain. While to some, this sounds like a blessing, it is a horrible curse.
As a baby, one child teethed on her own fingers to the point that they looked like hamburger meat. She chewed on her tongue like bubble gum… so badly that they had her baby teeth were removed. Then her adult teeth came in too quickly, and she managed to knock all but one of them out of her mouth by the age of 3. This girl (now 6 years old) damaged her cornea so badly by poking herself in the eye, that they sewed her eye shut in a desperate attempt to save her eye.
And then she tore the stitches out of her eye. She didn’t feel a thing.
One of the most talked about topics on the blogosphere is “The Problem of Pain.” Yet after watching this program, I wonder what would happen if pain and suffering were not a problem anymore. Read more »
Why Do I Care?
In a conversation on De-Conversion, Pat (comment #15) said
“I would like to see a post on your blog as to why someone would follow God.”
This is a very good question and one that needs to be asked by Christians and non-Christians alike, but often goes unaddressed in Christian circles. I will endeavor to provide a generic answer to the question here. However, before we can start to answer why someone would follow God, there are a lot of underlying assumptions about God and our knowledge of Him that we must first address. By doing so not only will we all be on the same page regarding certain terms and concepts, but we will be able to follow the logic used (hopefully) in answering this question from start to finish. Read more »
The Gospel and “Religious Experiences”
During chapel recently on my campus, I witnessed something truly religious.
Our speaker sculpted a head of Jesus while telling of his betrayal (with a little bit of theatrics and exaggerations). Then he explained how Jesus was beaten and crucified. He thrust a crown of thorns on the clay Jesus’ head and sprinkled it fake blood. It was meant to evoke a highly emotional response, and it did. As he brought up a pianist to play some music in the background as he made the altar call. One young female briskly strode to the front of the auditorium and began uncontrollably weeping. The speaker continued to call people forth to have an experience. Then this young woman started screaming, at the top of her lungs. I could not make out exactly what she was saying. She continued for a few minutes saying the same two or three words over and over again. The speaker was pleased, and affirmed her experience as true.
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