Job’s book concludes with a surprise visit from God, but instead of comforting the sufferer, he interrogates him about his whereabouts while he (God) was busy creating. He doesn’t refer to Job’s suffering. He doesn’t answer any of Job’s questions or defend himself against any of Job’s accusations. He doesn’t explain why he was silent …
Critical Thinking Christians Think For Themselves
“People have a tendency to stop thinking when it becomes difficult, but it is at that point that thinking becomes fruitful.” Leo Tolstoy “The skeptic looks at something and says, ‘I wonder.’ The cynic says, ‘I know,’ and then stops thinking.” Dean Nelson Job’s “friends” bombarded him with lazy-thinking platitudes. At one point, he’d had …
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“Jobian”
If I had my way, everything would fit a predictable pattern and be nailed down with precise definitions. Yet we can’t fit God into our patterns or definitions, and so it takes spiritual maturity to live with the ambiguity and the chaos, the absurdity and the untidiness. Accepting the ambiguity of God’s ways is a …
Stuck in traffic… “What’s going on up there?!”
“We are not intended to understand life. If I can understand a thing and can define it, I am its master. Logic and reason are always on the hunt for definition, and anything that can’t be defined is apt to be defied…” Oswald Chambers I don’t believe Christians – even real good ones – are …
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What Jesus Thought About Universal Victim Blaming (Part 2 of 5)
As you can see this is the second piece of a five-part essay. If you’d rather read it all at once, you can find it in barneywiget.com Mother Teresa told of a time when she spoke at a conference on world hunger in Bombay. "I was supposed to go to that meeting and I lost the …
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