While we should respect the rights of others to believe what they want, we are foolish, and maybe even unloving, to tacitly accept every religious belief as true. Why is this unloving? Because if Christianity is true, then it would be unloving to suggest to anyone that their opposite religious beliefs are true as well. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christianity’
When Tolerance is Unloving
Posted in Geisler, Norman L., Turek, Frank, tagged Christianity, Religious Belief, Rightws, Tolerance, Unloving on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Only a New Creature Can Inherent Eternal Life
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christianity, Collectivism, Eternal Life, Human Individualism, Natural Self, Pelagian, Personality, Vale, Worship on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have wanted to try to expel that quite un-Christian worship of the human individual simply as such which is so rampant in modern thought side by side with our collectivism, for one error begets the opposite error and, far from neutralizing, they aggravate each other. I mean the pestilent notion (one sees it in [...]
I Believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun Has Risen…
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Art, Christianity, Morality, Science, Theology on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Christian Theology can fit in science, art, morality and the sub-Christian religions. The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science itself. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. [...]
Science, No More Significant Than the Sound of Wind in the Trees
Posted in Lewis, C.S., tagged Christianity, Science, Science vs. Theology on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If, on the other hand, I swallow the scientific cosmology as a whole, then not only can I not fit in Christianity, but I cannot even fit in science. If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of atoms, I cannot understand [...]
Why We’re Unwilling to Admit Failure in Our Life
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Christianity, Cross, Redemptioin, Sin on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You know, in spite of the fact that Christianity speaks of the cross, redemption and sin, we’re unwilling to admit failure in our life. Why? Partly because it’s human nature’s defense mechanism against its own inadequacies. But even more so, its because of the successful image our culture demands of us. there are some real [...]
Christ’s Call on Your Lives is a Call to Liberty
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Christianity, Freedom, Galatians 1, Liberty on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Written in the heat of the moment, the letter is a flaming manifesto of Christian freedom. Christ’s call on your lives is a call to liberty. Freedom is the cornerstone of Christianity. Would Paul be as apoplectic today at the goings-on in the American Church? Would those still imprisoned in old guilts, crippled by fear, [...]
The Institutional Church Has Become a Wounder of the Healers
Posted in Manning, Brennan, tagged Christianity, Church, Gospel, Grace, Love, Self-Righteousness on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper. The Christian community resembles a Wall Street exchange of works wherein the elite are honored and the ordinary ignored. Love is stifled, freedom shackled [...]
Explosive Growth of Christianity in Africa
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Africa, Bible, Christianity, Good and Evil, Jesus Christ on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why has Christianity grown so explosively in these places [Africa]? African scholar Lamin Saunneh gives a most intriguing answer. Africans, he said, had a long tradition of belief in a supernatural world of good and evil spirits. When Africans began to read the Bible in their own languages many began to see in Christ the [...]
Christians Should Believe Others Are Morally Superior
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Christianity, Forgive, Goodness, Grace, Morally Superior, Other Faiths, Salvation, Savior, Wisdom on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity not only leads its members to believe people of other faiths have goodness and wisdom to offer, it also leads them to expect that many will live lives morally superior to their own. Most people in our culture in our culture believe that, if there is a God, we can relate to him and [...]
Christianity Does Not Simply Replace Our Natural Life
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Christianity, Gehenna, God's Omnipresence, Natural Life, Obedience, Spiritual Life on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. Christianity does not simply replace our natural life and substitute a new one; it is rather a new organisation which exploits, to its own [...]
