Category Archives: Christian Approach to Knowledge

Knowing You Are On To Something Real: Part IV

I admit it; I’m an epistemology buff.  It turns out that my passion for this topic rarely (if ever) makes me popular at parties. I have often found myself barging into a conversation about Michael Bolton and asking “but, really, … Continue reading

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Knowing You Are On To Something Real: Part III

You can often learn more from your enemies than from your friends.  Your friends may be biased in your favor; but your enemies rarely are.  When your friends tell you that mullet really looks great on you, they might have … Continue reading

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Knowing You Are On To Something Real: Part II

Jonathan Swift once said: “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”  It is a caution to all of us; a reminder that we are all motivated by things other than the … Continue reading

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Knowing You Are On To Something Real: Part I

Last week, I expressed the intense epistemological doubt caused by discovering that South Hills Evangelical Church is actually nowhere near the South Hills.  But I’m over it now.  In fact, I’ve actually decided to join the dark side of the … Continue reading

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South Hills Evangelical Church is Not in the South Hills!

Rarely is my epistemological world rocked these days, but when it is, it is usually my wife that does it. In a prior post, I was making the point that you should not name something after a place unless it … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part IV: The Leviticus Problem

In the hit movie Twister, a really large tornado rips through a rural farmhouse.  That’s pretty much the plot of the movie.  If you’re like me and you enjoy watching rural farmhouses get ripped up by tornadoes – as long … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part III: Can a Christian Disagree with the Creed?

Today we continue some meaningless meanderings on the Christian Creed during which aliens will take over my brain and make me use all sorts of anemic alliterations like “meaningless meanderings.”  It just goes to show what I’ve always said: In … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part II: Did God Hang the Fate of the Universe on Nicene Bishops?

Some criminals in Boise were recently caught trying to break into a local business through the roof of the building.  According to the Associated Press, the would-be burglars (I’m quoting this directly from the February 19 Missoulian) “had to be … Continue reading

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Further Thoughts on the Christian Creed, Part I: I Used Hyperbole So Sue Me

After re-reading my last post on the Creed and debating it a bit with atheist Jack Shifflett (see comments to that post), I think some additional thoughts/qualifications are in order. Thus we begin a four-part series on the Creed subtitled … Continue reading

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What is the Purpose of the Christian Creeds?

There was a time when I believed the Christian Creeds were the thing.  During that era of my life, if you had asked me what was most central to my faith, I would have said (in many, many more words, … Continue reading

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