Yesterday, we examined how skeptics try to put God into a box. They try to set up the conditions for “testing” whether God exists or not, often without a clue as to whether or not any of the conditions are a reflection of reality. Too often, as well, they completely…
All around the mulberry bush, the monkey chased the weasel. That’s the way the monkey goes. Pop! goes the weasel! ~ Children’s song You ever had a jack-in-the-box? You wind it up, and it plays music. At the end of the song, out pops “Jack”. Or, in the case of…
Mainstream Christianity and critics of the Churches of God like to criticize the Church for teaching that we human beings were designed to follow the steps of our Elder Brother Jesus and literally become gods. Yet, the COG is not the only one that calls itself “Christian” and teaches that…
Since I seem to be the last one in the universe to get the Journal, I just finished the last edition. It was sort of a doubled up edition. A “two fer” you might call it. I’ve been wondering what I would write based upon what was in it. There…
I just finished reading an excellent sermon by a Quaker minister, Pastor Tim Henry, on Associated Content. In “And He Lived Among Us: A Sermon Based on John 1:1-18”, Pastor Henry starts out giving us evidence that there is a God. Not just any God, but a logical God. In…
My wife and I are currently reading through Exodus together. While we look at the symbolism once a year anyhow, it seems that the full impact doesn’t hit you unless you actually read the story. The metaphor for Pharaoh being a type for Satan goes deeper than some would treat…
One of the paid ads in the last edition of The Journal asks, “Are you sure you can show that Jesus was the Creator God of the OT?” The author, who is not identified (other than belonging to www.rightly-dividing.net), then wrote: So how does the ministry handle scriptures that deny…
Our friends at WCG produced a paper in 2004 titled “Does God Have a Body?” As you can well imagine, it is so much hoo-ha and hand waving. The idea that God has “no form” comes from the Catholics. Along with the doctrine of the Trinity, it seems that the…
For as I [Paul] passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. ~ Ac 17:3 I like apologetics. That is the discipline of explaining a certain belief or position in…