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Evaluating the Apostasy. Part 1.

Posted on 18 April, 202327 April, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 8 minutes God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

“How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Bad Apologetics. Part 2.

Posted on 30 March, 202310 April, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 10 minutes The intention of this article, is to assess how that, the perspectives through which Scripture itself (the source of Christian information and Christian revelation) is read, determines one’s scriptural interpretation, hence consequently, one’s theology and apologetic.

“Lies and Deceit” Part 1

Posted on 23 October, 202226 December, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 13 minutes In a weaponized information environment, the public sphere is purposefully saturated with false information by malevolent actors who are deliberately trying to create the conditions where the truth cannot be discerned. What the Christian needs to know.

Biblical Anthropology. Part 2.

Posted on 23 July, 202229 January, 2023 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

Biblical Anthropology. Part 1

Posted on 4 July, 202229 January, 2023 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, 202226 December, 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 1: – Neo Tribalism.

Posted on 20 February, 202226 December, 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

“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.

Apologetic Methodology

Posted on 30 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes For any non believer, serious about wanting to know about Christianity, the most frequent question they will ask Christians is “why are you a Christian?” The first answers to be given should explain what Christianity is and what Christians believe, biblically.

Who’s a “prosperity apologist”?

Posted on 19 December, 20219 April, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 4 minutes The first Christians accepted totally that God had revealed himself in Christ and also through Scripture. This leads us here to be concerned particularly with the function and nature of Scripture, the written Word, as God’s special revelation.