Church vs. Christianity – Part III

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture, Christian Living | Comments Off

Well, we've looked at Jesus' initial interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well and gone over some of the things I noticed that seemed to stand out about this meeting. Now, we're moving on to the next phase of this event. As it happens, the woman was still there talking with Jesus when the disciples returned. I find it very interesting that these "giants" of faith, the founding fathers of the Christian movement, could have ...

Church vs. Christianity

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture, Christian Living | Comments Off

It is no secret that throughout history, terrible human tragedies can be traced back to the Church. Specifically the Christian Church. Notice I'm using the capital 'C' for Church. This is to indicate the idea that it is the body of Christ followers and not a specific denomination that I'm referring to. What sorts of things am I referring to? Just read the news some time. Look at the pictures of Christian protestors at the doors ...

A-B-C Plan

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Political Issues | Comments Off

We've all heard of the ABC plan for fighting against the spread of the AIDS virus. If you haven't, it came out during (I think actually from but I can't be sure) the previous presidential administration. The basic idea of the ABC plan is pretty simple. The 'A' stands for "Abstinence." In other words, the idea here is that one way to slow the spread of AIDS is to abstain from sexual activity. This part of ...

Eternal Punishment vs. Finite Crime

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 8 Comments »

In Old Testament times, people would take revenge against one another in ways that were absolutely shocking. There was no balance. It was not uncommon to kill someone for being disrepectful or for some petty crime. Then God stepped in with the whole "eye for an eye" thing to keep things a bit more fair when it came to punishment and justice. Later, in the New Testament, Jesus raises the bar even more. It was no ...

Why We Still Sin

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 2 Comments »

Last week, I posted my thoughts on the subsitutionary atonement of Christ. At the end of that post, I posed a question that I promised to address this week. It's "next week" now, so I suppose I should keep my promise and address this issue. Interestingly enough, to a large degree my perspective given in last week's post is actually quite heavily rooted in the concepts I'm sharing this week. In other words, the question of ...

Atheist or Agnostic?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

In the past, I had often thought a certain way regarding the difference between someone who claims to be an atheist versus someone claiming to be agnostic. My understanding had been that atheism was a very arrogant claim. My understanding was that to be an atheist, one was claiming that there was certainly no God. It seemed to me that this was an impossible claim unless one knew first-hand of the existence of every single ...

The Supreme Good (the Chief End of Man)

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 by Ty Wallace posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

"What is the chief end of man?" It is a question as old as the existence of man himself. Not only is this a very important question we should be asking ourselves (as well as know the answer to) but there is really no way a person can avoid it, although many try. And how so? If not by brushing it under a rug, people will take on one or more of the various philosophies of ...

Human Value

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 1 Comment »

According to the Bible, Man was created in God's image. It is upon this basis that Jesus makes His statement about the second greatest commandment which is to "love your neighbor as yourself." What about those who are not Christian and do not hold to the authority of the Bible? In those cases, how is human value determined? In fact, how is it even recognized as being valuable? If we are here as a mere result ...

Weighing the Truth

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 8 Comments »

Over time, if one pays attention to this sort of thing, one gets to see or hear a variety of different "reasons" for claiming something as truth. One can also see or hear many different ideas as to how these "truths" were determined to be "true" or not. This is something about which we must be very careful. Many people have probably heard or read about the Mormons' "burning in the bosom" as being a method ...

The Truth Hurts…But It’s Still the Truth

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Evangelism | 7 Comments »

Interesting thing about truth...it's true whether you want it to be or not. Sometimes we like it. Sometimes it doesn't matter either way. Other times, however, we don't particularly like it at all. It's those times that we have to be very careful. The Church in America today has to be very careful when it comes to truth. You see, so many of us tend to base what is true on how we feel about a ...