Category: Christianity

The reasons why I don’t give permission for material I’ve written to be used as training data for an LLM chatbot designed to do Christian apologetics

Three responses to the question, “What if none of the things I believe about Jesus and God are actually real? What if Jesus didn’t rise from the dead?”

Jesus’ command, “feed my sheep”, is the controlling priority.

A way to think about the soul, and how it relates to the body, in the 21st century

Why the argument from unwanted children doesn’t convince those who are pro-life

A look at the claim that Bitcoin and blockchain represent a technological revolution, fairly in depth but trying to avoid any techno-babble.

A response to the crypto-positive challies.com article from a Christian perspective

What does it mean to participate in the sufferings of Christ? And what difference does it make to us to understand this?

In which I rant about Bible licensing.

Non-original humorous post

My reasons why I disapprove of gay marriage, but will treat those who disagree with me with all the respect and kindness I can.

A complete WebView Android app, full screen, with a progress bar and back button that works as normal

A repost of a classic that is no longer available at its original location.

I launched my new Django Bible memorization site, LearnScripture.net

A defence of the Christian position on homosexuality, written for the benefit of atheists who really need to stop saying silly things like "God Hates Shrimp".

The consistent teaching of the Bible with regards to judgement day is that we will be judged and receive our eternal reward on the basis of what we have done...This does not mean that salvation is by works...

There is a lot of debate over the translation and meaning of 1 Corinthians 7:36-38 – this is the result of my studies on this, mainly for my own future use.

Do Christians meet together to worship God in the NT, or only to encourage each other?

I created a system and web app to help me organise my Bible memorisation. And I rant a bit Django and web.py.

This was a badly written attempt at satirising moral relativism, which I've decided to remove.

A simple creationist response to the supposed evidence for common ancestry from fusion in human chromosome 2.

Goodbye blogosphere! I'm off to read a good book :-)

I do not doubt that blogging can and does satisfy several (good) desires and needs that humans have, including the need to communicate and interact with others and the desire to learn new things. My problem is this: does blogging do these things as well as other means?

One of the problems with all internet journalism is how easy it is to get involved...

...As I see it, the sad truth is that the Christian sector of the blogosphere has a fairly mixed witness to the rest of the world...

I've become more and more skeptical about the usefulness of blogging and the blogosphere, especially from a Christian perspective. This will be the first in a series of posts that will criticise blogging :-) ...

"Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice ...

Supposing a friend of yours is going on holiday, and he comes to you the day before he leaves and asks you to look after his mobile phone (for some reason he couldn't take it with him). You'd conclude...

“Christ died sufficiently for all, efficiently (or efficaciously) for some”. I’m afraid I fail to get any real meaning out of this, no matter how hard I try, except if I use an idea of sufficiency which is many miles from the what I believe about Christ’s death. The only logical conclusion I can get from this statement is “Christ death was sufficient for no one’s salvation.” – insufficient for all. Now let me explain.

Being predictable is often seen as a negative thing. Yet predictability is tied up with what it is to be truly known by someone, and this extends even to God...

'My King' or 'The Seven Way King' is a famous 'psalm' (that's the best word I can find to describe it) about Jesus Christ, by Dr S.M. Lockridge. I've been able to find two main versions of this on the net and other places, and lots of variants in the transcripts, so I thought I'd put up the results of my own searches, and audio files I've encoded or collected...

As promised, some words about my changing understanding or Romans 7...

Thoughts on Romans 8:13: "If you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live"

Reflections on Deuteronomy 24:14,15

Continuing my thoughts on J.E Resolution 10...

Well, not exactly toothache. Last time I was at the dentist...

Something my dad said about forgiveness in his epilogue on camp...

"As the Father has loved Me, so I have loved you...