Jesus, Truth, and Logic I recently read that Jesus didn’t believe the laws of logic, in particular the law of non-contradiction. Apparently the laws of logic are at home in an Aristotelian worldview, whereas Jews had no problem simultaneously holding conflicting ideas (e.g., Proverbs 26:4-5). The author also suggested that truth and knowledge are entirely personal (thereby …
Perhaps my favorite of John Bunyan’s works is his little volume titled The Jerusalem Sinner Saved. It is really an exposition of Luke 24:47, Luke’s expression of the Great Commission, in which the Lord Jesus tells his disciples to preach the gospel “beginning at Jerusalem.” The people of the city and its leaders had repeatedly rejected, scorned, …
I was what the sociologists call an “early adopter” of feminism. Soon after arriving at college, in 1970, I knew that it was the religion for me. I had discarded the religion I grew up with, Christianity, as an insultingly simpleminded thing, but feminism filled the gap. Like a religion it offered a complete philosophical …
So many of us have read good books on marriage and on discipling, but I wonder, how many of us have read a good book on what it means to be a friend? Not many, is my guess. It surprises me that few books on friendship are read or, perhaps, that so few books on …
Crossway, 2014, 493 pgs. Summary: A summation and chapter by chapter assessment of the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Dr. Gregg R. Allison, professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and former Cru missionary to Italy and Notre Dame University in Indiana. His basic analysis is founded on the fundamental difference between Roman Catholic and Protestants on …
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3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ … 2 …