OK, I am going over this so-called list of “doctrinal differences” for subjects to explore. This isn’t so much as to try to defend UCG or refute LCG but to promote honest study into matters. However, it is difficult to be even handed when the “Doctrinal Differences Between Living &…
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above,…
There have been several news articles about various heads of state visiting the Pope earlier in the month. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more Church of God blogs and commentaries say something about this. Isn’t it interesting that in spite of the lesser popularity of the current Pope in contrast…
Well, I helped to move my daughter into her new apartment yesterday. She is living off-campus now while she goes to school. School doesn’t start until next month, so she isn’t really gone yet, but it is a bittersweet event anyhow. Last Sabbath, our congregation heard a sermonette about family. …
It has been a long time since I’ve been shocked by anything on the Internet. Vegan condoms pretty say it all. Welcome to the age of the extreme extremists! Anything to devalue humans to be lower than the animals is welcome! Meanwhile, I also ran across an extremist atheist site…
“We are the nuclear waste from the fuel that made those stars shine.” That comment out of context may sound cynical, but it should be humbling in its proper perspective. Science has answered a lot of questions. However, it cannot answer all questions. For all of our knowledge, it becomes…
Dear President Obama, First, I want to make sure I understand what is going on here. Quotes are from FoxNews.com “‘Special Report’ Panel on Whether Racism Played Into Arrest of Harvard Professor”, but it pretty much parallels with every other story I have read or heard on the arrest of…
Fans of Star Trek probably know that Gene Rodenberry’s futuristic view of the galaxy was that societies would run on a credit system. This fictitious system would eliminate the need for paper money and coins. Transactions would be done via centralized computer. Well, banks and credit unions in Australia are…
The Church of God has long understood the modern identities of Ephraim and Manasseh as Great Britain and the United States. There are some smaller groups which say it is reversed, but the majority go with the traditional view. Ephraim was to become a “company of nations” similar to a…
James Quinn at The Cutting Edge wrote a piece on 30 March 2009 called “America Once Ruled the World–The Last Bubble is Bursting”, since republished as “When America Ruled the World (Part 1)“. It pretty much summed up this financial mess and compared the bursting of the bubble to the…