Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

The old questions of the Enlightenment against Christ and their answers. Q: If nature operates by immutable laws, how can divine intervention fit? A: Immutable natural law is an expression of God's attribute - He doesn't change. Yet, we see Him working in the Bible episodically in many different ways which, on the surface, seem different from each other - even opposite, sometimes! This is the same thing we find in nature, but the Enlightenment binds its adherents to a more rigid interpretation, so they sometimes miss the greatest varieties when they seem to be contradictory. Their fear of losing the advantage over God (though it isn't one, really) is strong enough to keep them from fully embracing their senses in accordance with their philosophies; if they did, they might accept their surprising observations more readily and not immediately throw them out as tainted data. God is immutable from the single point of view of the entire varied Universe. Q: If knowledge must be g...

~~~ YouTube Comment I attended one church that left me feeling off. They had a very active and alive worship before the message. When they delivered the message the congregation was left in the dark. They kept the stage lit up like worship. There was windows but they were covered up with blackout curtains. Matthew 5:15 kept echoing in my head throughout that Sunday morning. "Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house." A bit more extreme is how I find it off putting when more established churches lack bibles for people. There's something about lacking God's word for people to have or borrow. How can we create strong faith in new Christians if they are kept in the dark and lack a Bible to hold. ~~~ RESPONSE That's a very surface way of looking. It's not what the Bible was talking about and sounds like excuses to me. Here's how to tell: Did the sermon preached in the dark contain lig...

One might think Christianity provides a community like others where a person learns to simulate confidence and emulate a stance of belonging. But the thing is, Christ is not like other community builders - He's worthy, and He is a trustworthy basis for the confidence; the belonging is not surface-deep, but deep, indeed, because the substance of Christ is meaningful. We might join a secular club and find people who cheer us on by following the dictates of the group, but they're not like siblings who have learned to conform themselves to Christ's ways.

If all sin is the same, then doesn't God's varying punishment of sin make Him unjust? No. All sin is the same, but God's punishment of any sin could be infinite, so He's limiting it in every case. He seems to use punishment to curtail the people involved and not just to be an equal and opposite power to counterbalance sin in us. But to tell it, we can correlate God's punishment with the sin in question and see if there's a pattern. Then we can know better whether our understanding of the purpose of punishment against sin should contain this element of balanced justice in the first place. Jesus said that the one who handed Him over had a greater sin than Pilate, because Pilate's authority didn't come from himself. That seems to be strong evidence that different sins are different. But the context and wording might clarify a more solid entrenchment of one conclusion or the other. Look into it. Leviticus has different punishments for different sins. That...