Category Archives: Choices

How God has constructed our world

The Best Teacher

At times I have wondered what guided the early Christians before the New Testament was formed.  Not all the early Christians had access to an apostle or someone who had spent any length of time around Jesus. An example is … Continue reading

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Free Will

Christianity has debated human free will forever.  Some argue that if God is sovereign, omnipotent, and omniscience, how can we humans have free will?  The Bible constantly details how God is involved in our world so if God decides on … Continue reading

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Force Rules the World

I have just finished reading Edmund Morris’s two volume biography of Theordore Roosevelt.  Roosevelt’s favorite poem was Henry Longfellow’s The Saga of King Olaf of which Morris placed an epigraph at the beginning of each chapter.  One epigraph was: Force … Continue reading

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Lessons Learned II

Amidst all the atrocities we have discussed in the past few blogs, there is an aspect of the human  condition that we do not hear much about and that is history also tells of of a few individuals who risked … Continue reading

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The Fleeting Moments of Our Lives

Depending upon which translation you read, the Preacher tells us that all of life is vanity, is meaningless, or is like a vapor (Ecclesiastes 1:2).  If we spend time evaluating his claim, we would need to acknowledge that he is … Continue reading

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All Is Well

A Sunday or two ago, the pastor of the church we attended talked about the story of the Shunammite woman and Elisha. The Shunammite woman, whose name is never mentioned, was wealthy and well connected.  To illustrate how connected she … Continue reading

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This blog is just over one year old.  During that time we have discussed questions about the Christian doctrine of salvation and God’s sovereignty.  In addressing those questions, we have not followed the doctrines of any one church.  Rather we … Continue reading

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Choices

The movie The Mission is an illustration of how we justify our choice of what benefits us here on this world rather than focusing on the renovation of our soul.  This movie is about a representative from the Roman Catholic … Continue reading

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Constructing Our World

As we have seen in previous blogs, God has given us free will.  He has given us the ability to construct our world any way we desire.  We construct our world through the choices we make and the actions we … Continue reading

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The Mirror of Our Soul

Since our values create our world, the values we select are the most critical decisions we make in our lives.  However, we have not been very successful at determining what our values should be and our efforts in creating our … Continue reading

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