This highly controversial page is for those with open minds and souls and those unwilling to make opinions and judge books by their covers (which I only do at bookstores). Because, you know, a book cover is like a block of moldy cheese...and I'm not sure where I'm going with that, so let's just skip the introduction and take a look at some...

Used Religion

Christianity

THE BASE THEOREM

constructed many years ago...when I first got "saved"
SOME NOTES
about what I've learned since then
NOTES FROM ROMANS (PT. 1)
NOTES FROM ROMANS (PT. 2)
scientific problems that arise from the Bible...and some solutions

addendum (March 2010): these pages are here for archival/education purposes, not argumentative (despite their tone)

"But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain (Titus 3:9 King James Version)".

creation
evolution
the "global flood"

Daily Devotionals

Daily excerpt from 'A Year with C. S. Lewis' and 'Wisdom from the Proverbs' for the 2nd of September
2 September

Past, Present, and Future

Screwtape strategizes with Wormwood, using Time as a weapon:
I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war—what they naïvely call 'The War'!—and am not surprised that there is a corresponding lull in the patient's anxieties. Do we want to encourage this, or to keep him worried? Tortured fear and stupid confidence are both desirable states of mind. Our choice between them raises important questions.
The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present—either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.
—from The Screwtape Letters

1939 The first children evacuated from war-time London arrive at The Kilns.

1973 J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis's lifelong friend, colleague, and fellow Inkling, dies at age eighty-one.

Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters. Copyright © 1942, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

September 2

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favor is as dew upon the grass (19:12).

He had almost forgotten about it. Not two weeks before he had borrowed his father's power drill without asking him, and somehow he had broken the bit. He had been too scared to tell his dad right then, so he kept putting it off. Finally, he forgot it completely. Forgot it until his dad came to his room, holding the broken bit in his hand. He expected to be really lectured. His dad had told him a thousand times not to use his tools without permission. He hung his head and admitted what had happened, but instead of a lecture, his father just laughed and shook his head. He clapped his son on the back and asked him to go to the hardware store with him to get a new bit.

When we do something wrong, we live in fear of the wrath that is to come. As a person hears the growl before the lion springs, a wrongdoer feels guilt before the punishment comes. If we will heed the feeling of guilt and confess our wrongs before God, His wrath will turn to favor, and we will know forgiveness. That forgiveness, that reprieve from punishment is as sweet and refreshing as the morning dew, and it is a precious and lasting gift. Nothing is better than coming to know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially in the face of punishment for sin.

prayer: How many things do I try to hide from you, O Lord? Forgive my foolish attempts to avoid your wrath and displeasure. Lead me to your forgiveness, Father, and let me know that your love is greater than any wrong I might commit. Amen.

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