I think it is absolutely critical not to resist the critics of religion. Smart people hate religion, sensitive people hate religion, and instead of merely dismissing them we should listen to them. The reason we should listen to the critic is because Jesus Christ Himself in the Bible deconstructed religion savagely, repeatedly, relentlessly, but he…
Tag: atheism
The Bible’s Not History?
In an attempt to use my day off to do some reading unrelated to Theology, I picked up Derren Brown’s book entitled ‘Tricks of the Mind’. I was looking forward to seeing how some of his tricks were done, I was also intrigued to read about the memorisation techniques I saw the promise of in…
The Knowledge of God- Implanted in Every Person
I have been considering lately the idea of knowing God. And I would love to just throw out three things about knowing God, (1) Everybody has the knowledge that God exists, (2) Arguments given against God that claim the idea of God was just made up to control people actually gives proof to the fact…
God, Suffering and Christians.
I have been thinking about suffering. It may be that God is allowing physical suffering to sweep our world in order to shake His Church to the worldwide ravages of spiritual starvation. Our hearts break more quickly when we see a skin-draped skeleton in its mother’s arms than when we hear a missionary say: millions…
