Is God a Narcissist?

Recently I ran this interesting article on Paul Copan’s website.  Copan is a Christian apologist and philosopher.   He comes from a Molinist bent. 

Craig on Molinism and the Age of Accountability

William Lane Craig has recently addressed the question of the age of accountability.  He applies Molinism to this difficult subject. 

Sleep and Parenting

Today in grad chapel, Psalm 127:1-2 was posted on the screen during the prayer time. 
Unless the LORD builds the house,
       its builders labor in vain.
       Unless the LORD watches over the city,
       the watchmen stand guard in vain.
In vain you rise early
       and stay up late,
       toiling for food to eat—
       for he grants sleep [...]

Natural Revelation

For my Christian theology class, we’re supposed to write out summaries of our beliefs on different topics.  Here’s what I have so far on natural revelation.   
Since humans by nature are limited and finite, knowledge of an infinite and transcendent Creator is impossible outside of revelation. Thus, God has chosen to reveal Himself by the means [...]

Rejoiner on “The Anointing” in 1 John 2

As my comment back to Dennis and Levi grew in size, I thought that I would just make a whole new post in connection with the conception of the anointing in 1 John 2. 
First, I would guess that the sacrament of “anointing” with actual oil developed from this text, and not the other way around.  I doubt that the [...]

Reading the Bible in color

Learning Greek and Hebrew this semester has really been a privilege.  In the past, I thought, “Now that we have so many great English translations of the Bible, why do we even need to learn the original languages?” 
Yet learning to read the Bible in the original languages adds so much to our understanding of Scripture.  It’s like [...]

Corn?

Look at what some friends from our church found for us to do as a youth group activity.  Doesn’t this look fun?  It almost looks like that maze in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 

Duane Litfin in grad chapel

Today Dr. Litfin, the president of Wheaton, spoke in grad chapel on the importance of the Scriptures in education.  Here are some of my notes.

 The goal is Christ-centered learning (i.e. the integration of faith and learning). 
Faith doesn’t make something true.   Biblical faith is simply taking God at His Word.
You can’t have faith without revelation. 
Why do [...]

Brief thoughts on Sola Scriptura

One thing that I’ve started to notice is that everyone (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant) approaches the Bible and church history with some sort of hermenuetic.  That hermeneutic will affect the way that you understand communication.  Even though Whiteford ridiculed a literal or normal hermeneutic, it seems to me that he even makes use of a literal or normal [...]

Hebrew

My schedule is starting to pick up since Hebrew is starting to be more difficult.  I’m having a hard time telling the difference between the qames and the qames-hateph.  Tips? 
That’s just to say that my mind is coming up blank when it comes to posting lately.