A Discerning Heart In “Learn to Discern” (2023-08-12), Gunner Q writes that he agrees with the following statement: “We must always refer to the Bible, but nothing is more difficult than interpreting it and applying it to a particular situation without falling into fundamentalism. God relies on our intelligence to …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, authority, and submission. See this index. In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples. In doing so, he prays about sanctification in a rather curious way. “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the …
This is part of a series on patriarchy, headship, and submission. See this index. When I wrote “The Context of Genesis 3:16”, I looked at how the context of Genesis 3:16 could be combined with that of Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3. Regarding the submission in Ephesians 5, I had …
In his two volume book, Escape the City, Travis Corcoran listed prices of various goods used in homesteading. Because he recorded the price, he was able to notice that these prices fluctuated much higher than the government published rate of inflation even in the months while he was writing the book. …
One of the political views that I find most frustrating is that America is full of greedy capitalists who—if they were destroyed by socialists and communists—would usher in a period of economic prosperity that no society has ever experienced. This is all a complete fabrication of reality. The reality is …
In my previous posts “It’s a Religion: Trans Ideology” and “It’s a Religion: Public Health,” I discussed how governments and activists use religious indoctrination techniques to propagandize people. This is typified in statements by trans-rights activist governments… “Repeat after us: trans women are women” …and statements by public health bureaucrats… “Repeat …
In my previous post, “It’s a Religion: Trans Ideology,” I described how in the United Kingdom, the government is using the power of the State to attempt to coerce people into making public formulaic pronouncements, a liturgy of religious indoctrination in support of trans ideology. Just like trans ideology, the …
There was once a time when people understood that the expectation to recite a public formulaic pronouncement—a liturgy—was, in fact, religious expression of belief. People also once understand that teaching a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically was, in fact, indoctrination. Paired together, people once recognized this for …
This is part of a series on the Roman Catholic sacraments. See the index. One of the common problems I’ve experienced in my interactions with Roman Catholics is that they don’t understand their own religion. They are discouraged from reading the Bible and coming to their own conclusions, and so rarely …
From here: The New Testament as a whole quotes from all but Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. It quotes in total 237 Old Testament passages. Notwithstanding claims made by some, the New Testament does not directly quote from any book in the Apocrypha, although it does …