In my experience and research over the decades it appears that the vast majority of Christians don't believe the gospel. They tend to either reject salvation being contingent upon accepting Christ as Lord or reject the idea of salvation being by faith apart from works and that the Lordship con...
Closer to the a view of nature that traditional societies (such as in ancient India) had envisioned. But I do not think Hindutva has the knowledge to do anything more than accept breadcrumbs from Western advancements of technology and science. And even if India does then it will l...
I can attest, spending much time among devout Christians, that Dreher has done it again, capturing our present mood: we’re trapped between wanting to throw ourselves into movement politics to defeat The Beast, or looking inwards in the hopes of becoming the change one wants to see in the ...
The ancient Romans were pagans. During different periods, there were varying customs. However, burial was rarely used in Roman times. The pagans burned their dead, and it was mostly for sanitation reasons. Christians were less prevalent at the time of the second century A.D., and the p...
I find it interesting to speculate on minor characters, or those only briefly mentioned in encounters with Jesus. Thus, the research reflected above. As the last resource above mentions, tradition has these men to go on to be Christians. This makes perfect sense, particularly once the Resurrecti...
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. —Danish Proverbs 65 Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work...
and they didn’t want him meeting an early or terrible demise living in peril in the wild as an outdoor cat. They had seen more cats than they ever cared to on the shoulders of the highways and couldn’t bear the thought of this one meeting that same fate. Almost before they had th...
All Christians who commit suicide will go straight to heaven because they cannot lose their salvation with the Lord God will judge each case individually As you can see, you have two extreme positions, and then one position that is in the middle of the road. ...
there’s tons of reasons to doubt anything China says it’s doing or has accomplished. Some of them are cultural, some of them are — more importantly, because this will happen again in the future, just as a dog returns to his vomit — the problem of information inherent in all despotis...
He admitted that I hadn't done anything wrong by writing poetry, but he was still upset about it because it was talking bad about christians. He told me not to go to anymore meetings and that he would call me every other week to talk. He only called me the next week and has never...