September 2010
6 posts
thoughts on calvinism
I don’t like the god I find in calvinism. A god who controls everything, like a strict micromanager, must be held responsible for everything. He is the boss that refuses to delegate power who scoffs at the very idea of free will. This god is not able to create beings with power that mirror his own because that would lead to uncontrollable chaos in which there is no glory for himself, nor...
thoughts on atheism
”The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” - Brennan Manning
Atheists read that phrase and find it absurd. Of course that’s not the reason most folks don’t believe in a higher power. There’s...
5.5 years ago
Something I found I wrote down a while back
“if my life amounts to anything more than a bum on the corner holding a ‘will work for food’ sign then know that God will get all the glory for it He alone is worthy of the praise i cannot win but with Him, i will never lose”