Christianity

What makes us Human? Part 3.

Posted on 27 August, 20222 September, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 10 minutes Part 3. Transhumanism. A Theory of “Technosalvation”. Opinion Piece In the twenty-first century, the third big project of humankind will be to acquire for us divinepowers of creation and destruction, and upgrade Homo Sapiens to Homo deus … We want theability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above Continue Reading

What makes us Human? Part 2.

Posted on 23 July, 202228 August, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes The Early Church understood, the person as the resultant of body and soul, as an integral unit and not of that of two entities. In other terms, a human being is seen as one entity, composed of two distinct irreducible constituents where immortality of the soul was an alien concept to most

What makes us Human? Part 1

Posted on 4 July, 202227 August, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 9 minutes Humans have an inescapable problem of understanding what defines them, because the nature of the definition is both paradoxical and complicated.

Communication Theory and the Ancient World. Part 1.

Posted on 8 May, 202210 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 5 minutes The word “rhetoric” (ῥητορική), is a victim of “Semantic Drift” that has seen its classical meaning changed from its original Greek meaning: skill in speaking articulated as the art of persuasion, into propaganda or empty talk.

“wokeness” Part 2: – The Cult.

Posted on 6 March, 20229 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 9 minutes “Cults are systems of social control. They are …….organizations whose aims (be they money, power, sex or something else) are rooted in submission to a dogma manifested by an authority figure: a charismatic preacher or, say, a tenured professor.” (Marzoni 2018)

“wokeness” Part 1: – Neo Tribalism.

Posted on 20 February, 202212 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 8 minutes Where things are at. Modern Western culture has become decadent, inasmuch as its unrestrained self indulgence has capitulated a previously imperfect temperance, to an enthusiastic purveyance of libertine freedom, manifested by an insistence of publicly advancing “Cultural Marxist” causes, namely; homosexual “marriage”, abortion, and philosophical and political multiculturalism amongst others. Continue Reading

The Athens “Fail”

Posted on 23 January, 20227 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes Paul was not in Athens to prove the existence of any ‘new’ divinity. Paul argues that the Athenians had already recognised the existence of God in Athens, because there was already erected an altar to him, namely the one to ‘the unknown God’ (αγνωστω θεω, agnosto theo).

“Logos” or “Not Logos”. That is the question.

Posted on 8 January, 20225 May, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 6 minutes The word λόγος, (logos, word Strongs NT 3056, one of the most widely used terms in the NT; 331 occurrences) has a huge semantic domain. In John’s Gospel Logos is a clear reference to Jesus. In the opening chapter and verse (John 1:1) the Apostle introduces the idea that Jesus is the Word.

Christianity Rejected

Posted on 13 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 4 minutes “For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.” (I Corinthians 1:21)

I Can’t Get Away from Myself.

Posted on 5 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 3 minutes My biggest enemy is not you, it’s me. I am my biggest enemy, hey man, I can’t get away from myself. I go to bed with myself every night. Every time I sit down to eat I’m right there. When I shave my face I’m looking at me right through the mirror. There’s nowhere I can go to get away from me. I’m on me 24/7.