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Could Jesus Have Gotten a Math Problem Wrong?


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Can you imagine it? Jesus, five years old, sitting in math class, 1 A.D. (Okay, maybe he was homeschooled, but just roll with me here!) He gets back the quiz he took the previous day. The result? 95%. Jesus missed one! But wait…could Jesus have erred? Back up. Pop quiz. Did Jesus ever stumble and [...]

17 Pure Speculation and/or Fringe Questions About Theology – Help Me Out


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Here is a list of seventeen questions that either qualify as pure speculation (i.e., there is no way to know) or fringe (i.e., questions that are odd and hardly ever asked). I came up with 17 of them. Please add to the list in the comments. I may start a blog series dealing with each [...]

Praying Over and Over and Over and Over . . .


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How do you pray for things? Is it possible to pray enough that the hand of God is twisted to the point of concession? Seriously, does that please him? Does he expect it? Does he require it? Twisting the hand of God is probably a bad way to put it. But what does he expect? [...]

Why I Believe Adam and Eve Fell Within 45 Minutes (Warning: PG-13)


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Warning: this post may not be suitable for younger audiences. I have often heard it said that Adam and Eve had perfect fellowship with God for a long period of time before the fall. Some say years. Some even say that it could have been hundreds of years. Some say that they walked with God [...]

Fringe Q&A: Do Dogs Go to Heaven?


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Question: Do dogs go to heaven? Answer: I had the greatest dog that God ever created. I’m serious. If there were a way to objectify the “greatness” of dogs, Rocky, my German Shepherd, who a got when I was 11, would be number one on any top ten list. At times, I felt like he [...]

 

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Omnipresence
[awm''-nih-prez''-intz] (Latin omni, “all” + Latin praesent, “present”) The belief among theists (Christians, Muslims, Jews) that God, being transcendent above time and space is present everywhere. This is not to be confused with pantheism which believes that God is “in” everything since the theistic God is completely separate from all of creation. Some have described [...] continue reading