Friday, July 25, 2008

Teaching with Authority

Interesting how Jesus taught with authority.

Matthew 7:29 - 8:1 29 For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Was it the way Jesus spoke with conviction? After all, He is God in the flesh. I used to think that it was merely because He was who He was... being God, He has the authority. This is true, but what about the authority that the church is then given in Matthew 18.18-19?

We too easily give away any authority that we have by trusting in man's reasoning instead of repeating what God has said. Focus on the Family would rather cite court cases and statistics than say, "Thus says the Lord," and quote the Bible. The Bible, in their view, has no authority. Why do we so readily give away our best opportunity to convict the hearts of man, and call people to repentance?

Friday, July 18, 2008

The Fool Says There Is No God (Psalm 14.1)

For a fools view of epistemology, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm1JYYIk-pI

Before you watch, here is a quip about it... lest you are an atheist and begin to build a straw man argument, or a Christian and get blind sided by the straw man builder...

Of course we know that Robespierre was not an atheist (he was a deist, however, which I consider practical atheism), but here’s the rub: the video never claims that he was. That so many of these responders have thought it important to point out to me that Robespierre was no atheist shows me that a large number of atheist enthusiasts don’t listen very closely at all, and are apparently unable to follow a simple logical argument. Oblivious! Rather, they impute something to us that we never claimed in order to pretend they have “answered” us. This is the classic “straw man” fallacy: presenting a weak caricature of your opponent’s argument, as if it were the real thing, and then knocking down the caricature pretending you have defeated your opponent.

Americana Humanists Must Banish Memorials

For the banishment of the witness at the Washington Monument, see http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58349

Humor helps keep you from feeling too important

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