Not exactly the most pleasant of topics this, but it was milling around my mind this morning. God commanded in the Old Testament that people be stoned to death for various sins. Stoning is an incredibly brutal way to die, and it seems rather crazy that God should ask people be stoned — sometimes for …
I’ve often heard it said that, as Christians (for those who read this blog that are), we shouldn’t try and “scare people into heaven” by making threats of hell when we present the message that Jesus is the savior. I’m not quite sure what this means anymore, to be honest. While I don’t think it …
I’ve been on a path of trying to discover the real POINT of most of this Christianity thing. I mean, what is the one thing we should be doing? What’s the real point of all this? I’m coming (or have come) to the conclusion that our goal is Kingdom – and Kingdom means transformation of …
I’m no nitpicker when it comes to certain things, especially Bible translations. I love the colour of the translations and the different take on things. However, I’m becoming more and more convinced that a literal translation of the Bible is probably the most helpful kind of Bible to have as your ‘main’ Bible, and you …
Faith OF the Son of God, and the world lies in the hands of the evil one? Read More »
For a while now God has got me on this path of discovering grace more and more (and I suspect that this will be a life thing.) In particular what has been bothering me is trying to understand the sinful nature. In trying to study this thing (because of sins in my life that won’t …