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The Stupidest Thing
Perhaps the stupidest thing I’ve done routinely in my life is to try to argue the facts with people who do not care about the facts. To this very day, I still find myself surprised at how someone can be … Continue reading
What Would Happen in a REAL Church Revival?
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
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There Is No Special Bible For Lazy People, PART II
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
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There Is No Special Bible For Lazy People
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
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On Keeping Bible Interpretation In Its Proper Place
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
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Three Bible Study Rules
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
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Voices of Reason Doing More Harm than Good
It does very little good to attempt to be a voice of reason in a society that is not given to sound reasoning. In fact, in an irrational culture such as ours, reasonable commentary on particular points of religious or … Continue reading
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Merrily Posteth the Fool!
Here’s one of the best Shakespeare quotations ever! And my, how it applies to our modern hearsay/Facebook culture! “Merrily posteth the Fool, yet vetteth not, that which he wast but told I had said.” Shakespeare ~ Twelfth Night, Act II, … Continue reading
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The Sole Reform Fallacy
I have coined the term Sole Reform Fallacy (or Sole Remedy Fallacy) to name a cognitive error I have seen frequently in play with regard to politics and religion. Here is its definition. Sole Reform Fallacy—the error of judgment by … Continue reading
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Over a Thousand Funerals
Ralph: You know, they say that Brother Billy is really popular. He has preached over a thousand funerals in this county! Dale: That guy’s not really that popular; I think his reputation comes mostly from poor communication.
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