You are as created
July 16, 2008 on 7:47 pm | In History, Philosophy, Religion | Comments OffI love the quote from C.S. Lewis that says, “You are a soul, you have a body.” Interestingly enough the manufacture of the human being by our Divine Creator happened in the opposite order of this statement, yet this statement holds true. We read the order of events in God’s Word. The account is found in the Book of Genesis:
“The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Gen. 2:7 NIV
Ten Commandments – yep, I said it.
May 27, 2008 on 6:35 pm | In Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Western Culture | Comments OffFood for thought:
Do the rules listed below sound bad to you? They sound good to me, but apparently there are leaders of our country who think these words should be banned from the public setting. I guess freedom of speech only applies to those who agree with their ideology.
Maybe you don’t believe in God, but don’t you think if we read and applied these words to some degree then maybe we wouldn’t have some of the trouble we have in our country like Murder, Rape, Theft, School Shootings, Corporate Plunder, Political Corruption, Suicide, Drug Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual Immorality, broken homes, Racism, Fraud, Child Abuse, and even heath issues related to stress? Maybe, just maybe if we started with these rules, things would be a little better. And don’t we all want that?
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We can’t do this on our own
May 27, 2008 on 6:17 pm | In Philosophy, Religion | Comments OffAnother one of my Humanities coursework discussion postings:
If one could attribute a theme to the history of humanity it would be this: “we can’t do this on our own”. If we just take western culture as an example, we see that humanity has washed, rinsed, and repeated revolutions of philosophical thought over and over again. We have gone through several micro-cycles of chaos, adjustment, and balance.
After the fall of Rome, western culture had to ‘re-find’ itself. Humanism had failed, but a new direction was given, Christ, the revealed truth. Truth was what the early philosophers sought long before, and now it had arrived. As the years passed, politics took over, and the truth was scattered and mixed among paganism. In the early stages of the medieval period, when we realized that we were too pagan, so we became religious. When we realized that major religious establishment was corrupt, we reformed. But even then some of the reformed doctrines were in error. Once we realized this, we became rational. As a result of rationalism, during the renaissance, we became humanistic all over again. When we realized we were too humanistic, we revived, but by this time we became even more fragmented. Revival gave way to scientific rationalism. The effects of the age of enlightenment continued on. This term is a contradictory term in and of itself for the so-called age of enlightenment was a plunge into darkness whereas there is no truth apart from God. And apart from God we can never get it right. We can’t do this on our own.
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