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One of the major doctrines that separates the Christian faith from all other religions is the doctrine of the trinity. The concept that Jesus Christ is fully God, not a demigod or an Angel, but that He is God Himself in the person of Jesus. Other religions and cults that give lip service to Jesus paint Him as merely a prophet or a wise man. But the idea that He is infinitely more than this, that He is literally the image of the invisible God, our Savior, our Lord, and even our Creator, is a strictly orthodox Christian teaching. This idea that He is Lord of all things, a fully omnipotent extension — or eternally begotten -- person of the Trinity, separates the Christian faith from all other falsities. And it is this doctrine that gives the believing Christian an assurance of salvation that no other faith can parallel, grant, or even comprehend.
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Anne Hathaway was a featured guest on ABC’s daytime show The View, where she shared some of her thoughts on abortion. Conservative media sources such as The Daily Wire, Sky News, and The Rubin Report have all shared criticisms of her thoughts. One commentator said it was silly to look up to someone who lives their life reading lines that someone else writes for them. Perhaps he has a point.
 The Bible has been transmitted by believers for two thousand years. The Old Testament (OT) even longer than that. Copies of copies have been made by devout men of God, and the manuscripts used in certain translations (such as the 1611 KJV), were a millennia removed from the originals. Furthermore, the Bible has been translated many times; there have been some translations of translations, and many have referenced the "telephone game" to describe the alleged issue with the preservation of the Bible. However, do these facts mean that Christians have no idea what the original authors of the Bible wrote in the autographs (the original documents of the NT and OT)? Is there any way for Christians today to know if we have reliable and authentic documents?
Is love a feeling or an action?
I used to argue wholeheartedly that love was purely an action. I based my argument on my rudimentary understanding of what love looked like from Biblical characters. I would point out that Jesus’ love was found in his actions, but this isn’t completely true. Jesus’ love is not purely actions like I had previously thought, assuming the heart behind them was unimportant. I never considered that it could be the case that Jesus’ love is found at a deeper level, and that the actions of love that he performed are actually a result of the feelings and desires of His heart. I recently heard a song that, prior to listening to, I was incredibly eager to hear because I knew the artist. Upon hearing the actual song, though, I was very unpleasantly surprised. I’ll just say that the content of the song was extremely worldly.
We always like it when someone can get down on our level, and relate to us where we are in our understanding on a specific topic. When we are young children, it is helpful for an adult to get down on their knees and get at our eye level when they explain something to us.
I have to admit something. This question haunts me: Who is Jesus? Sure, we can revert back to our Sunday School lineage and spout out answers from off the top of our head, such as: Son of God, Savior, Messiah, and any other term you learned to call Jesus when asked this question in a small group setting. Now, before you get upset with me and write me off as another hedonist trying to show you my holy ways, give me the chance to explain myself.
How do you define a living thing? Does it move? Does it think? Does it respire? In essence, does the subject have what we would consider to be living qualities? These are questions we must ask ourselves when deciding on whether something is living or not, and through observations and logical reasoning we can come to conclusions about life.
I see her sit, upon the grit,
whilst no one is around. Deep down she knows, straight to her toes, she’s lost, not yet been found. It was in a flea-infested and dim-lit basement in Jacksonville, Alabama where I sat down to write Five Flaming Arrows. I had no external motivators, no one telling me to “Just do it” or “Hey, it’s been awhile since you sat down to write… so write!” All I had was an internal desire to write something amazing; to write something that honored God and actually helped people whom I had counseled.
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