Was the Resurrection Physical?

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics, Miracles | Comments Off

Over these many centuries since the time of Jesus of Nazareth, many ideas have been offered to attempt to explain certain things about Him and about God in general. Many of them have been denounced as heresies throughout this time. However, now and again, these same ideas that were written off as unbiblical or heretical crop back up in different ways. One such heresy is based on the gnostic offshoot called "docetism." Docetism is from the ...

Knowledge Puffs Up

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief | Comments Off

The world is full of irony. Of the many things people use against Christians, much of the ammunition non-believers use against us has been provided to them...by us. Not always on purpose, of course. Often it can be a simple mis-application of scripture. For example, one of the charges leveled against the Church is that Christians are anti-intellectual dolts who's faith is blind and irrational. To a large degree, for a sadly large number of Christians, ...

Wise Men, Mangers and Baby Jesus

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture | Comments Off

Once again, we are coming up on the time of year when we celebrate one of the greatest events in the history of...well...history. It's a celebration of the incarnation, when the divine took on human form and lived among His creation. There have been so many traditions, from so many different backgrounds, that have become standards. They have become so very familiar to us that we often times will accept various stories and teaching without question. ...

Seventh Day of Rest

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture | Comments Off

One of the "internal" debates these days within the Church is regarding the days of creation. There are basically two camps on this issue. First, there are the "Old Earth Creationists" who believe that the Earth is millions (or billions) of years old. On the other side, there are the "Young Earth Creationists" who believe that the Earth is fewer than 10,000 years old. What this essentially comes down to is how we interpret the days ...

Exodus

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | 2 Comments »

I have heard it often claimed that there is absolutely no evidence for the Old Testament recounting of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt as told in the book of Exodus. This is a pretty significant claim since it is fairly well known that the Egyptians had a tendency to keep fairly comprehensive records. So, this leaves the question...Is there evidence of the Exodus? To answer that question, a quick search turned up some pretty ...

Reasoning

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | 2 Comments »

Christians have, for some time now, been accused of a lack of reason. Typically, the way things are portrayed, people like to make it seem as though faith and reason are opposites and therefore are incompatible.Sadly, even those within the Church are often convinced of this.  I've written before about this and still feel the same when it comes to the faith vs. reason argument. Not to worry, I'm not going to re-write that post again. ...

The Third Day

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief | Comments Off

If I were smart, I'd wait until we were coming up on Easter before I posted something about the resurrection. But, here I am writing about it now...just before Thanksgiving. I guess I could make an argument that it still makes sense since, as a Christian, the empty tomb is something I'm thankful for. One question that is debated quite often about Jesus' death, burial and resurrection is what day He was crucified and what day ...

Human Rights – Abortion

Thursday, November 4th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Political Issues | Comments Off

According to our founding fathers, there are certain rights we have that are attributed to the fact that we are human. These rights, according to the Declaration of Independence, are given to us by our Creator. The list in the Declaration is not exhaustive, as indicated by the preceding phrase "that among these are..." (emphasis mine) So, according to the founding principles of this country, we have certain rights that transcend human authorities. We also have ...

Prayer in Public Schools

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Political Issues | Comments Off

Since I've apparently been stuck on the "separation of church and state" thing these past couple weeks, I figured why stop now? Besides, it's given me a lot to think about as far as what constitutes a violation of the First Amendment and what does not. Perhaps it's just me, but it seems as though there is a lot of gray area when it comes to this issue. One of the things that came to mind ...

The Other Side of the Coin

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Political Issues | Comments Off

Last week, I brought up a story about going to far about keeping church and state separated. As if on queue, I just ran across another article that brings up the problem in precisely the opposite direction. An article on OneNewsNow, another story was reported about a jail house in South Carolina that banned all literature from being allowed to the prisoners...all literature, that is, except for the Bible. This is pretty much the opposite extreme ...