AI SUMMARY: This essay explores how both angels and humans were created with legitimate but potentially competing desires—self-fulfillment and union with God—and how sin arises…
As Christians, we seek to understand how sacred acts connect us to God’s redemptive plan, a journey that begins with the New Testament (NT) sacraments.…
High church traditions—prevalent in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and some Anglican, Episcopalian, Lutheran, and Presbyterian circles—bring a layered heritage of liturgy, sacraments, and ecclesiastical authority to Christianity.…
My wife recently asked me if are sinning by not taking the entire Sunday off to spend with God – she was conflicted because Mondays…
There is a subset of Christians who believe that the only valid English Bible translation is the King James Version, also known as the Authorized…
How should we view religions other than our own? Do they contain truth at all? Or some truth? Is that truth just offered as part…
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.” (John 8:34) Few things annoy my atheist…
Yes, that is the sesquipedalian title of my Master’s thesis, and what was funny is that our final paper’s title was read out loud at…
Realizing that the completion of my Christian walk depends on God and not on my level of commitment or strength or goodness. I can screw…
As an intellectual himself, Augustine reflected on the mini years he looked down upon the Bible, thinking it two simple, filling in didacticism, and basically…
Augustine is well known for lamenting his years before he became a Christian. He seems overly rocked with guilt over his sexual escapades. As a…
Augustine wrote The Trinity over twenty years, ending with a text so enormous that it was published in parts, in rough form, and later revised…
This quote is probably one of Augustine’s most famous, and it expresses a deep profound truth. Nothing in this world can truly satisfy the soul,…
1. Thagaste: The Childhood of Augustine One of the most important influences on any human being is the character and quality of their parents and…
In Evangelical circles, self-love is an idea and practice often viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility, most often being equated with selfishness. Little distinction…
The Triadic (a.k.a. “tripartite”) model of Biblical anthropology declares that humans are composed of three distinct parts – spirit, soul, and body (1 Thes. 5:23).…
In Created in God’s Image (1994), Anthony Hoekema (1913-1988) appraises Biblical anthropology in a comprehensive way, but also brings to light modern thinking on the…
The current majority view in evangelical Christendom regarding the makeup of man is dualism, that is, two components, the physical (body) and the immaterial (soul…
Alvin Plantinga is a modern luminary of philosophy, known especially for his successful defeater for the logical problem of evil, a truly historic achievement in…
In Our Idea of God, Thomas V. Morris explores how we might think about understanding the idea and person of God without the Bible. He…
In Christian leadership and laity, the word “inerrancy” is often misunderstood because it is ambiguous until it is well defined and qualified by a handful…
In Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith, author Michael Reeves attempts to present the doctrine of the triune God as a…
There is no absolute proof for historical events, and if you are trying to prove the existence of immaterial realities like God or objective morals,…
In an online forum, someone recently asked the question “how can you be sure you are saved?” This is actually a good question. Here’s some…