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Approximate Reading Time: 8 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Santa Claus is a classic part of childhood. Likewise, being old enough not to believe in him is a mark of maturity. However, as parents, we should always consider what we teach […]
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Approximate Reading Time: 9 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) This final option for where the soul comes from will sound odd, even by Christian standards. Instead of God being an active participant, either creating the soul or grabbing one from His
Where Does the Soul Come From? Option 3: Traducianism Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) Today we continue our look at where the soul comes from. While Part 1 looked at a theory that is largely rejected, this one may be the most commonly held belief in
Where Does the Soul Come From? Option 2: Creationism Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 5 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app.) If we believe that humans have a soul, we must also believe that the soul comes from somewhere. Throughout history, Christians have come up with several theories to explain it, and today
Where Do Souls Come From? Option 1: The Soul Bank Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutes This series is being put on hold. Click here to read why. As our world continues to reject the traditions that seemed to fail previous generations, Christianity was inevitably going to get swept up as well. With each passing year, we’ve seen the core tenets of Christianity compromised, or outright abandoned, in favor of something
Progressive Christianity Part 1: A Religion That’s Doomed to Fail Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 16 minutes This series has explored the three most common beliefs about the human constitution, exploring what it is that we’re made of. We’ve looked at whether we are: One part, making us purely natural creatures (called “Monism”) Two parts, with our souls existing within our bodies (Dichotomy) Three parts, with our soul and spirit dwelling within
Conditional Unity – Can Humans Be Made of One Part While Being a Body and Soul? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 10 minutes The Bible talks about our souls as well as our spirits. Oddly enough, however, it doesn’t always do a great job of distinguishing the two. While my last article showed how we try to make the soul and spirit do different jobs, the reality is that God’s word often uses “soul” and “spirit” as though
Are humans made of two parts? Are souls and spirits the same thing? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 9 minutes (This article also includes a podcast discussion. Click the play button below, or subscribe and listen on your Apple or Google podcast app. ) One of the most popular beliefs about our physical and spiritual selves is that we have three parts: body, soul, and spirit (also known as trichotomy). The three are unique and serve different functions
Are humans made of three parts? Are we body, soul, and spirit? Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 7 minutes This is a shorter version of a much longer article I wrote about my reflections on Christian Nationalism. This article will quickly sum up what Christian Nationalism looks like and why we need to avoid it. If you’d like to read a more thorough discussion, click here. What is Christian Nationalism? At its heart, Christian
Summarizing My Article on Christian Nationalism Read More »
Approximate Reading Time: 30 minutes (Don’t click away after seeing the length of this! This discussion is broken up into several bite-sized pieces. Don’t try to read all of this at once – just read a section at a time as you find a few minutes throughout the next few days) Many Christians in America lament the state of our
Christian Nationalism – The False Teaching We Can’t Ignore Read More »