I have finished importing over 2K posts from twoorthree.net, my previous site, shared with two other authors.
The changes to the blog are minor — the other authors will now be considered guest authors, and this site will become my main ‘ministry’ site.
Feel free to look around. More changes in my work log, including:
- Re-loading, by hand, all of my images — typepad’s heinous export does not allow you to export the image names with the html. Ugh.
- Setting up the podcast
- Setting up the store!
- Updating my ‘About’ page
- Adding plugins for Amazon, Scripture links, and more.
- Updating all of my internal links
- Updating the archive pages to show only Titles
- Replacing the comment system with coComment or IntenseDebate
- Parsing out the Politics category into smaller ones
- Perhaps having a two-tier category structure
- Updating the RSS feed to use Feedburner
- Getting some sleep
So, I’ve scoured the internet to find out how to use Google Voice with my Sprint account. You can use it for voicemail without incurring any forwarding charges, but I’m not sure if they will allow you any of the plans that would make it possible for all of your calls via GV to be free, i.e. not count against your minutes. I’ll updated when I find out more.
Last Update: 07/08/10
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I recently listened to apologist Peter S. Williams (blog) deliver this talk at the 2010 European Leadership Forum on the topic: Arguments for Theism, and finally understood the Ontological Argument for God’s existence.
However, it brought up a question in my mind, which I submitted to William Lane Craig’s website. I’ll post the answer if I get one, but here’s the question:
If the Ontological Argument assumes that God is the maximum quality of attributes of goodness and greatness:
- Which category does ‘being’ or ‘existence’ fall into? Goodness or greatness?
- If that is an attribute of greatness, could we not then use this argument to argue for the existence of a maximally great and maximally evil (instead of good) being, then conclude that that being must also exist?
Comments?
Is Obama facilitating change or forcing it? Here’s today’s quote.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ William Pitt
In our recent political history, this might be applied to some of the actions of GW Bush, such as the war on Iraq, wiretapping, suspending habeas corpus for Gitmo detainees, etc.
It could also be applied to the Obama Administration, in the way that they forced through their various enormous spending bills, as well as their upcoming “carbon offsets” (a.k.a as ‘cap and trade’) legislation. Trust me, it will be urgent and necessary.
As we have seen in the Obama administration, you don’t need time to read or openly debate legislation, you just need time to manipulate a majority vote.
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Here’s my first sermon as an ordained pastor, and here’s what was in it:
- Get there
- Quiet your soul
- Pour out your soul
- Read and wait for Illumination
- Journal
- Express thanks
Listen to Draw near to God
I was recently in a discussion at the skeptic site NW Ohio Skeptics, and got into a discussion about the differences between Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, and one topic that came up is that of inerrancy. While I think all Fundamentalists hold to a plenary inerrancy, I don’t think that that position is the only one among evangelicals.
First check out Daniel Wallace’s great essay My Take on Inerrancy.
Then, check out the diagram I made comparing the different types of Christianity and their stands on different doctrines, including inerrancy — Neo-fundy Doctrines?
Now, you are ready to read my explanation of how I view inerrancy, and how I think many Evangelicals view it — but I bet there is a bit of diversity on this topic in Evangelicailsm.
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I’m sorry. It’s rather difficult to be polite to someone who makes a good, publicly-funded salary in order to spout this nonsense.
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Ok, since I really enjoyed the video below, I thought to read the short (16 page) Arizona immigration bill (PDF) myself and see what all the hubub is about. Even though I am politically conservative, I do believe we need a compromise solution that enforces our borders and has compassion on people fleeing the poverty and corruption of Mexico (though the current administration is trying hard to shut down the drug cartels).
Summary? I think the law is a little too harsh, but only a little. Even ‘worse,’ AZ Senator Russel Pierce argued on The O’Reilly Factor last night (also below) that giving citizenship to the children of illegals born in the US is NOT covered by the Fourteenth Amendment, nor by court cases since. His argument is very interesting, and not out of the question.
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As is often the case with controversies surrounding politicians, much of the rhetoric on Rep. Mark Souder’s affair with a staffer has been divided politically. As I have stated on numerous occasions, hypocrisy makes it worse on these type of issues for conservative Republicans, especially those who claim to be committed Christians.
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