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    My recent dream about the intermediate realm of the world

    Dream: "I have descended deep into a concrete shaft, reaching a level that feels like the underworld. Everything is raw grey concrete and eerily empty. The walls tower forbiddingly high. A metal staircase spirals downward into absolute darkness. The atmosphere is terrifying. Far above, I can...
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    Book review: “We Who Wrestle with God” by Jordan B. Peterson

    Peterson is enormously popular, and that's why his views must be subjected to critical scrutiny. Book review: “We Who Wrestle with God” by Jordan B. Peterson
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    Anti-Nietzsche: A Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche

    Nietzsche, as you know, is the foremost enemy of Christianity among the philosophers. I wrote a refutation of Nietzsche, which is valuable for Christians to read. Please comment! Anti-Nietzsche: A Critique of Friedrich Nietzsche Abstract: Nietzsche's irrational doctrines have contributed to...
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    Sin-consciousness?

    Kierkegaard views the lack of sin-consciousness as a form of spiritual stagnation or 'spiritlessness.' When one becomes conscious of sin, it marks an advancement in self-awareness—specifically, the kind of self-awareness that enables genuine subjectivity and opens the possibility for repentance...
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    The intolerance of tolerance : How relativism leads to tyranny

    Modern relativism, the notion that no viewpoint is exclusively true, contradicts Platonic-Christian philosophy, which grounds truth and righteousness in eternal forms. Contemporary society has distorted the historical meaning of ‘tolerance’ and has created a new form of intolerance. This paper...
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    The debasement of theology

    What is behind the decline of Protestant theology that began in the sixties? By way of an example, I recently posted this review on Goodreads: Ronald Gregor Smith (The Doctrine of God, 1970) struggles with his faith. He thinks that the traditional doctrine of God has reached a dead end. He...
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    The responsibility for the Fall

    When God drove mankind out of the Garden, he placed cherubim to guard the entrance (Genesis 3:24). But why didn't he place a cherub at the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thereby preventing unforgivable sin? And in the Mesopotamian version, why did the gardener Tagtug get the instruction...
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    My three reviews of controversial theology books

    On Amazon I have written reviews of three controversial theology books that are suitable for discussion: All Things Come into Being Through Him: A Christology of Creation (2023) by David O. Brown (Advocates a return to deism in much improved form.) A Brief Systematic Theology of the Symbol...
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    Review of "The distancing of God: the ambiguity of the symbol" (1990) by Bernard Cooke

    Although the book has some good insights to share, it left me confused. Cooke’s argument is that theology has contributed to a distancing of God in that a “Christology from above” increasingly came to characterize Christian theology. While Christianity began with a sense of sacrality attached to...
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    Christians who are still under the law of sin

    It is strange that so many Christians have this fixation on sinful acts, especially bodily sin, considering that our sins are forgiven through faith in Jesus Christ. We are forgiven as long as we remain aware of our sinful nature, knowing that we are bound to go wrong now and then. Ruth Page...
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    The Holy Spirit, as the bond between Father and Son, must Himself have a separate bond with either 'person', leading to an eternal regress

    The Holy Spirit is conceived as an independent third 'person' of the Trinity. He is the 'bond' between the Father and the Son (Epiphanius). This leads to a logical problem, in view of the fact that it requires yet another bond between the Holy Spirit Himself and the Father and the Son...
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    Review of Tollefsen: "Activity and participation in late antique and early Christian thought"

    In his book Activity and participation in late antique and early Christian thought (2012) Torstein Theodor Tollefsen tries to make sense of some basic ideas of Eastern Christian thinking, and he almost succeeds. He makes an excellent scholarly analysis of the many strange concepts, such as logoi...
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    Review of "Paul and the Law" (1987) by Heikki Räisänen

    Heikki Räisänen (Paul and the Law, 1987) is critical of Paul and what he sees as the many self-contradictions and ambiguities in Paul’s position. Paul sets up the antithesis of faith and works and paradoxically claims that the law is overcome and yet remains valid. Räisänen says that Paul “is...
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    Review of "The mystery and agency of God" (2014), by Frank G. Kirkpatrick

    Hi! I'm new. This is a review of a book I just finished reading: In The mystery and agency of God: divine being and action in the world (2014), Frank G. Kirkpatrick wants to resuscitate our traditional view of God as personal agent operating in the world. Divine agency must be modernized...
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