What's What

The Truth is Out There

2006-01-23T13:42:00.000-08:00

What do ya'll think about the possibility of extra terrestial intelligence?

Breakin' the Law!! Breakin' the Law!!

2005-12-26T20:30:00.000-08:00

Are Christians really expected to uphold every law? "I mean what's the big deal if I drive 10 over the speed limit on long trips so that I can save an hour?" "If I download Britney Spear's music from the internet, is it really going to affect her that much? She makes too much money anyway!" "I'm kinda struggling financially, so Uncle Sam won't mind if I keep a little more this year than what I am 'supposed to', right?" Feel free to add on any other laws that don't seem like such a big deal to break (Don't worry, I won't turn you in, [unless you are a murderer or robbed a bank])

Where should Christians draw the line on appropriate entertainment?

2005-12-24T08:42:00.000-08:00

If you have been a Christian for any significant length of time, it has happened to you. It's movie night with all your friends and they decide to watch a comedy with Will Ferrell. It's such a funny movie and you are having such a great time. Then something you may not have planned for happens...a sex scene. Or maybe there is a joke that makes you laugh, but you know it shouldn't, but you laugh anyway, because you don't want to come off legalistic. You feel like maybe you should speak up and say "Guys, should we be watching this movie?" But you don't want to spoil anyone's fun, so you don't. Or maybe it's not even movie night and you are all just hanging out at a friends and someone makes a sexual joke, maybe even a racist joke, but that person isn't racist; they're just making a joke. Movies with only one sex scene, racist jokes that you know aren't really racially motivated, using "bad" words in a joke (the "s" word, the "b" word, the "d" word), etc . . . they're all in good fun . . . . . . . . right?

The Word of God

2005-12-15T15:14:00.002-08:00

In my junior year of college, one of my Bible professors posed the following question: "How do you know that the Bible is the Word of God?" What do you think?

Are We Living in The Last Days?

2005-12-14T20:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a question for y'all...Are we living in the last days? Support your answer...

Bible codes

2005-12-08T09:02:00.000-08:00

I have recently become aware of a book called The Mysterious Bible Codes. The book claims that God has encoded events and figures of historical significance into the original languages of the text. To decipher these codes, computers are used to scan the Hebrew and Greek letters skipping an equal amount of letters each time. For example, if you skipped every 7 letters in the first sentence of this paragraph, you would arrive at the following sequence of letters: ebwblyuc (aka ELS: Equidistant Letter Sequence). In this example, we have an incoherent list of letters. The author of The Mysterious Codes, Grant Jeffrey, claims that if one applies this same method to the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible, words such as "Hitler", "Auschwitz", and "Holocaust" appear. Mr. Jeffrey claims that multiple scans have been performed with multiple results that have historical significance. His argument is that God has encoded the Bible as a strategy to win over those who are skeptical of the Bible.
Apologetics is the field in Theological discussion which seeks to give people intellectual reasons to accept the message of the Bible. The word apologetics itself can be a little misleading. It has nothing to do with saying "I'm sorry." The word actually comes from the Greek word apologia which is translated as "defense" in 1 Peter 3:15 (NASB). I think that the field of apologetics is very important for every Christian. Today, we live in a world that generally sees Christians as ignorant and naive, and for this reason alone, Christians everywhere should devote themselves to learning as much as they can about their faith and educate themselves as much as possible about as many fields of research as possible. In my opinion, Christians should be the smartest people in the world.
So let's hear what you think...Do you think that this is possible? What would be your reaction to someone who presented this idea to you and was convinced that it was true?