Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It is a day dedicated to be thankful to God for all his provisions and blessings. When Christ came, he abolished all of the blood sacrifices. But he retained one kind of continual sacrifice: the thanksgiving. When the early church gathered together, it would offer …

The Evils of Womankind

A while back, I ran across this article with a provocative title: “Husbands of kind wives remain naïve to the evils of womankind.” Heh! So, I borrowed the clickbait portion for my title. This article isn’t actually about women, it’s about men. So, in light of my earlier article on hypergamy, …

On Error and Sin

Back when I was posting articles on a daily basis, I was having a lot of interaction with Bruce Charlton in our articles and in their comment sections. We had been discussing the nature of repentance, faith, forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life. Through various twist and turns I was reminded of …

Useless Books of the Bible

When I wrote “The Living Voice,” I noted that the way scripture and authority are presented implies that the Book of Revelation is useless. This is quite important. If the metaphysical belief is that the prophecies—of Daniel, John the Revelator, Jesus at the Olivet Discourse, and Paul in 2 Thesssalonians—are …

Assortative Paring

I’ve talked before about how “opposites attract” is a myth. Couples pair up with people who are similar to them. This is one reason why people perceive hypergamy to be a real phenomenon: reality gets interpreted through a non-random selection filter. A person’s individual experiences are almost never representative of …