What is beauty? The most common answer is “that which is pleasing to the senses”. The adage, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” speaks to this answer. In this view, beauty is entirely subjective. Nothing is itself beautiful. There is no beauty within the object itself, only in the perception of the subject. I would like to challenge this assumption.
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“Lord are you there?” “Lord the pain hurts too much, so why aren’t You taking it away?”
At some point in our lives, even as followers of Jesus, one of these questions has either passed from our lips or landed on our minds. This raises the question, “Is it wrong for me to cry out to the Lord?"
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Occasionally, when we enter into a new culture, we still use terms that we know the background and use of, but nobody else does! Because of this, we sometimes need to explain what we’re talking about and define our terms – even with words we use all the time. This may feel strange to us, but it’s necessary in order to get across the message of Christianity. One such word is “justification”.
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Social Media has taken the world by storm - with billions of users spanning across all of the world's continents. Everyone is using it, with that "everyone" growing exceedingly larger every year. After years of this type of technology, the effects of social media have become readily apparent: it's addictive and changes people.
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Most people, when they first hear about Molinism are confused. Talks of "Middle Knowledge" and "Possible Worlds" seems to smack of new-age philosophical shenanigans. But upon closer investigation, it's actually a very Biblical way of understanding salvation and predestination.
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What is Grace Molinism?
Grace Molinism is a belief system about salvation based on the foundational understanding of divine so divine sovereignty known as Molinism. In this article, I flesh out the Grace Molinistic alternative to the five points of Calvinism.
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Is it reasonable to believe God exists, just because "He lives in your heart" or must we all learn apologetics to be truly rational Christians? Here, Trent explains that because God is Properly Basic, apologetics is helpful, but not essential.
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What does Paul mean by saying "Baptized for the dead"? False teachers, such as Joseph Smith, often take this phrase out of context and then force their own meaning into the passage - namely, proxy baptism.
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Shammua stepped out of his tent and was immediately blinded by the setting sun. Yet instead of the beautiful orb in the sky, what he saw once his eyes adjusted chilled his blood. With Israel's back to the Red Sea, now all the chariots of Egypt were bearing down on the multitude...
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