General posts that are not about any topic in particular.
This is part of a series. See the index here. A while back I wrote “Hypergamy is a Myth.” There I made a few observations and conclusions. First, numerous studies show that both men and women desire to pair with someone above their station. Both men and women want to be …
The Olivet Discourse is found in three passages of scripture: Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21. There Jesus tells his audience what is to come in the future. Though the content of the Olivet Discourse differs in its predictions and descriptions of the events to follow, at the conclusion of …
Back in 2023, I wrote “On Divorce” where after many years I finally wrote down my thoughts on the Bible’s teachings on divorce. During that discussion, I concluded from scripture that no Christian may choose divorce, ever. It’s completely forbidden. I recently read another article on divorce, and I’d like …
In Part 5 of our series, we’ll be discussing the eighth article that Jack @ Sigma Frame wrote about Gnosticism. Let’s review that article, shall we? The article was written by Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., a Roman Catholic and Professor of Political Science at the Franciscan University of Steubenville and a teacher at a …
Today we’re going to skip ahead to the sixth post in Jack’s series on Gnosticism. I want to pause here to note that Jack wrote this series in 2021, when I was still commenting at Sigma Frame and the there was a somewhat different group of readers and commenters. Later, …
In Part 3 of our series, we’ll be discussing the third article that Jack @ Sigma Frame wrote about Gnosticism. This should be interesting. Trait #1 First, Gnostic philosophy was influenced by Platonism—especially that of Middle Platonism—which was prevalent during the first few centuries AD. Gnosticism borrowed the concept of …
In Part 2 of our series, we’ll be discussing the second article that Jack @ Sigma Frame wrote about Gnosticism. Gnosticism As I mentioned in “Gnosticism,” one cannot approach Gnosticism in the same way you would approach other religions, expecting there to be denominations that differ only in theology. The categories …
I’ve been discussing Gnosticism in “Gnosticism” (as it pertains to Radix Fidem) and “Gnosticism, The Trinity, and the Dialectical Method” (as part of my series on the Trinity). In the comment section, Bruce Charlton wrote: This largely conforms to what I discussed here throughout 2024. See how closely this matches …
From time to time I like to highlight how people believe all sorts of wrong things because they overemphasize and generalize their personal anecdotal experiences. Here is one simple, seemingly unimportant example: I think that Oscar has never attended the Pennsylvania Farm Show or an indoor Rodeo (see the picture?). He’s probably …
Over at James Attebury’s blog, he has written “Part 16: The Trinity in Hebrews” in his series against David K. Bernard’s “The Oneness of God.” There he repeated the same error that he made in “Part 11: John 1:1” regarding the prologue of John’s Gospel. This is the same claim …