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 21st of October
21 October

Present at the Creation of the World

Most of our prayers if fully analysed, ask either for a miracle or for events whose foundation will have to have been laid before I was born, indeed, laid when the universe began. But then to God (though not to me) I and the prayer I make in 1945 were just as much present at the creation of the world as they are now and will be a million years hence. God's creative act is timeless and timelessly adapted to the 'free' elements within it: but this timeless adaptation meets our consciousness as a sequence and prayer and answer.
—from Miracles

Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

Miracles: A Preliminary Study. Copyright 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1947 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Revised 1960, 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. 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.

October 21

These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect for persons in judgment. He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him: but to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them (24:23-25).

There was a faithful church woman who was renowned as a gossip and tale-teller.She would go to others to share with them "in Christian love." What she was really doing was talking about others behind their backs. She prayed for people by saying they were possessed by evil, when in fact their only sin was to disagree with her. Some perceived her to be holy, but most people knew of her terrible hypocrisy. Finally, they came to her and let her know that what she was doing was completely un-Christian and destructive.

We have no right to judge anyone, and we should not use our piety in order to put others down. Our prayers should be prayers of love for God's guidance and protection, not for selfish and judgmental concerns. We accomplish nothing by talking ill of any other person, and we sin grievously when we try to mask it in Christian piety. We should try to help others understand God, but we must enter into that quest as equals. We need to make sure that our motives are always pure when we seek to help another person.

prayer: Lord, help me help others without feeling proud or vain. You have changed my life, and I am better off now than ever before, but do not let that change cause me to feel superior in any way to any of my brothers or sisters in Christ. Amen.

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Greco-Roman mythology


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