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The topic of church burnings has been a difficult one partly because many remain unsolved. But here in South Carolina, if you burn a church, you will more than likely get caught. Two members of the KKK plead guilty to … Continue reading →

I got nailed by my Sunday School class yesterday. It happened like this… I was doing my part-time duty teaching Adult Sunday school and we were studying Psalm 51. When we got to the verse “in sin did my mother … Continue reading →

Heh, you can’t fool me. That’s a trick question. The answer depends on *WHICH* inquisition you mean. But to give a general answer: Often at the instigation of secular rulers, bishops were urged to investigate and deal locally with heretics, … Continue reading →

I got nailed by my Sunday School class yesterday. It happened like this… I was doing my part-time duty teaching Adult Sunday school and we were studying Psalm 51. When we got to the verse “in sin did my mother … Continue reading →

Somebody called me a “part-time atheist” because (I presume) that I post articles which do not support the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. There is a rather strong stereotype among some atheists that all Christians are anti-science, blind-faith, literalists, inerrantists and … Continue reading →

Just a point to ponder. A rather curious verse appears in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (7:25). Paul says: What follows is not from God. It is my own opinion. Now if the Bible is indeed INERRANT then Paul … Continue reading →

Personally, I’ve always thought that it was likely that there was life elsewhere. If God created the universe and life in specific, it would seem strange to me to make such a BIG universe to be populated only in one … Continue reading →

Maybe God was working on a pipe bomb and it went off.

The ancient Hebrew, confronted with the fact that Sodom was destroyed (earthquake and fire), wondered “what did those people do to be punished like that?” As Beduins, they would consider being inhospitable to a stranger a very bad thing. And … Continue reading →

Let me try to draw an analogy between scriptural interpretation and mathematics (since that is where my training lies). The mathematics that we are most familiar with (that of the Real Numbers) relies on 13 postulates of the Complete Ordered … Continue reading →