Category Archives: Religion

You can tell a lot about people by observing the patterns of their behavior.  You can figure out what they think about things, and even how they do that thinking. What is surprising is to discover what things people don’t … Continue reading →

I’ve been studying cognitive science for the last three years or so, trying to understand why it’s so hard for people to correct their beliefs when those beliefs are demonstrated to be wrong.  It is fairly obvious from the research … Continue reading →

Before we get started talking about church revivals, let’s establish just how common a thing it is in our culture. If you do a Google search for [church revival], you get 192,000,000 returns.  (In case you aren’t familiar with this … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I talked about how: We have to actually read the Bible to know what’s in it. Jesus seems to have thought that people’s misunderstandings were worth correcting, so we are to be in the habit of … Continue reading →

Jesus was talking to some from a religious faction (Sadducees)  one day and he told them a most instructive thing: Matthew 22:29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. … Continue reading →

There is the Bible, and then there is one’s interpretation of the Bible.  Because we are so prone to cognitive error, these two are quite often not the same.  None of us are inspired and/or infallible in our ability to … Continue reading →

Regarding the Bible, here are three rules of study that most manage to resist quite successfully: Let us constrain ourselves to get out of the Bible nothing more than what was put there by its authors. Let us diligently get … Continue reading →