LOGICAL MINDS ONLY

Why the church? What is it that it hides our sin from God, through Jesus? How many Christians will debate atheists about sin, arguing that if Jesus was not God he could not save us from His Fathers Wrath? If Jesus did not rise from the dead to sit on his Fathers right hand, we have no hope. True enough but then what does predestination mean? If God did decide from before the world began, who would...

There is an imperative attached to faith that requires us to fulfill a condition, prior to faith. There is unforgiveable sin. This must be dealt with. Salvation is not a lottery. Nor is God mechanical or subject to causality. God is not obliged to create us in a way that we must be saved. These are the normal assumptions, but they do not make sense, according to the nature of God. Just because you...

There is a line between good and evil and what is more it is guarded by a wall and is not able to be breached. The way over is through God. To be evil is to be heir to the unforgivable sin. In other words, no one on one side of the divide can be saved.

Democrats are especially passionate about democracy. It is not mentioned in the Bible. No philosopher or scientist or intellectual of note, has ever argued the mob is smarter than the individual. Nor does anyone think that truth is established by the popular vote. No one leaves their future up to what a majority decides or spends their paycheque according to what a majority of persons think. God c...

The state understandably abhors violence in the street. Riots indicate a break-down of the social order. But when there is a two-tier policing system and a state that no longer does its proper job, many see violence as a last resort. The question is not if violence is never justified, because any government will argue there are times when violence is the only option. The question is if violence is...

It is possible for God to be a sufficient explanation and solution. It is not possible that the naturalist position can be anything but a partial and highly specialized answer. Natural science cannot even provide scientific solutions to social problems. It is a discipline focused on a few hard sciences. The God Hypothesis is neither incompatible with the physical sciences nor incapable of providin...

There is a sin that is unforgiveable. For some this might appear weird, or strange, but it is a logical necessity. There has to be a sin that is unforgiveable. It could not be any other way. If everything was forgivable, forgiveness would be akin to joining a political party and getting into heaven as easy as entering Porn Hub. Perhaps the teaching is ignored and misunderstood at the level it is,...

If truth exists science ought to reflect the coherency of truth. There are only different fields of study because we never developed a single value they share or have in common. However, this dependence on unique measurement application for each field, has left a large group of the sciences without any method of quantifying their results. These are the humanities. But why cannot the humanities be...

Whatever we call Jesus, we cannot call him a liberal. This does not make him conservative, and it certainly does not mean he is a hippie or anarchist. As soon as we link Jesus with the features of liberals, his uniqueness is compromised. He becomes just one more hippie activist looking to be free of the accountability that comes with Jesus as the Christ.

The distinction between liberalism and Christianity is the difference between good and evil. Which means if you cannot discern where the line is between living as a liberal and living as a Christian, it is pretty much guaranteed you are embracing evil as a blind follower of some blind guide.

No system contains instructions to its use. No set of instructions is operational without a group of factors able to be operated by means of systematic manipulation existing independently of the instructions. Nature cannot contain natural law and natural law cannot have originated from within the operations of nature. Empirical science in this sense is not objective in the way it discusses or inve...

There ought not be a dozen different research fields occupied by researchers who find little reason to talk to one another. The world is one. Truth is one. If scientists cannot communicate with one another using the same language, what hope is there for the rest of us? Apologetics assumes there is coherency in the underlying elements of the universe. There are not different substances out of which...

Does anyone think we are going to get through this without a revolution? The question is really all about the kind of revolution we will have, or, in another way of saying it; how violent will be the revolution? Naturally if we do not find a peaceful way forward, we will find ourselves faced with the need for violence. But first, lets consider three paths that are revolutionary, but peaceful.

What if civilization rose and fall due to a single factor? What if this factor was at the heart of the story of mankind’s fall in Eden? What if in the absence of this single factor we would have a veritable Utopia defined as the absence of the ten great evils of unemployment, debt, poverty, inflation, pollution, waste, taxation, homelessness, war, crime and the cost of the state generally? And if...

Liberalism is a mental sickness. The desire for freedom, though it may seem good for men, leads to self-destruction. There is nothing in Scripture that justifies men’s freedom. What the Bible says is that we can serve on of two masters. Part of this is that women were created as helpmates, not as equal partners and certainly not as the superior sex.

Mankind must believe in the saving grace of Christ to be saved. If we question this, we sound like Satan asking Eve if God really said you cannot eat of the fruit of the Garden. But there remains a nagging realization this cannot be a reliable quote. But we grasp the phrase as it appears to be the only way to give God the glory. We cannot earn salvation so it must be through grace. What then can w...

There are two ways forward, one is narrow and one is broad. Christians view this comparison as a way to illustrate the difference between Christianity and the way of the flesh. But it as easily reflects the difference between the methodology of science and the way subjectivists think, and for good reason. The way of truth is as scientific as it is standardized by obedience to the truth of God. If...

Many think Trump has taken over the Republicans and made the Party in his own image. Regardless of what he might think he has done or what other think he has done, he is a man with an historic role. Who or what he is or who he seems to be, he has a specific purpose in life, that is intimately tied up in what the Republican Party represents at this moment in history. Whatever happened in the past a...

The highest and most perfect of all ideas is the idea of the ideal, without it, we could not pursue science or philosophy or love.

Church and state are separate institutions. One cannot be contained within the other. They are sociological equivalents. One cannot be derived from the other. Church and state correspond to the spirit and the flesh and represent good and evil. There is no correspondence between them and no collaboration. Church and state do not exist on opposite ends of an infinite continuum, they are polar opposi...

The Broad Way is the way defined by the flesh and determined by the popular vote, whether this is an informal or informal vote. The popular vote assumes everyone, and every issue has equal value. The outcome of an election is legitimized by the participation of everyone and the equal ability for all issues to be tabled. Democracy that is exclusionary is not democracy. The very nature of democracy...

Nationalism is feared and hated by the left and it is not supported much by Christians either. It seems to place too much emphasis on the state rather than on human beings as a whole or on God, specifically. But the nation has a place in Christianity, but it is not something well understood. What we need to ask ourselves is if the nation is just a waypoint on the way to the global Caliphate or ano...

There is a simple fact that is anathema to humans, especially if they are of the Christian persuasion. The strange fact is that no one can dispute the fact. Of all truths it might be the one that is the least assailable. In other words, upon hearing it, it has to be accepted. It is not as if the truth was irrelevant, such as the distance of nebula. It is a truth along the lines of the fact that th...

Money is quantified value or a unit of account. In high level trust situations such as a Christian congregation, particularly when that group is also linked by cultural, racial and language elements, money is not needed, or needed less. The members of high trust groups believe that in the long run, working together for the good of the group pays off in the long run. But with out this high level of...

There are two modes of ownership, they are far more closely related that people seem to realize. The private and public ownership models are not at opposite ends of the spectrum. Neither exists without the other. The differences are mere ones of degree, not quality. Public ownership is ownership by the state, though some think of it as ownership by the people. But that is just the issue. There is...