Pride is the original harm. Not just because it was by some coincidence chronologically first, but because in the Christian worldview it is the thing that is at the root of all other harm, or as we call it, sin. But it is also poorly understood. I think a lot of people think it is just "thinking very highly of …

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Anyone who has lived for long enough can look back on their life and see where they made some pivotal decisions. Sometimes it's months of agonizing over what career to go into after school. Sometimes years of pain or joy come from quick, seemingly inconsequential decisions to take a puff, or walk this way instead of …

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Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, - 2 Timothy 3:16 If you are a Christian, or have any interest in Christianity, even purely academic, you will need to read the Bible. It is far from an impossible task, but it is also not a …

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One of the reasons I am putting these posts on X (among other places) is that I want to take advantage of its automatic translations to spread the message around the world. However, when it comes time to discuss Christian terminology, it causes a problem, because the very word I want to discuss is going to be …

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As with anything that exists... and if there is anything that Exists, it is the Being who is the only thing to be self-existent, not requiring any previous thing to exist... God has characteristics. Some of those characteristics are very famous, such as omniscience - knowing everything there is to know. Or omnipotence …

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Why is it interesting that the Bible is like a hologram? With my personality, I would personally prefer in some sense that the Bible be organized like a textbook: The Beginning Of The Universe Humanity's Problem The Solution To Humanity's Problem The Cosmology of the Universe How the Earth Was Created (With Pictures) …

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The world is a nasty place. But we often forget this for a time. We have never seen a perfect place to measure against it. We can't think all the time about all the evil in the world. The only people that wouldn't drive insane are those who are already insane. But we can also build up too many defenses against the …

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I am young. From a human perspective, this is not true. I'm middle aged now. Being older than middle aged is in sight. But from the perspective of a being who will never cease to exist, I'm quite young. In fact, little pop quiz for you: What percent of your existence have you used up? I don't need to make any …

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Christians are called to strive to lead exemplary lives. We don't get to "take advantage" of God's grace to do whatever we want. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? - Romans 6:1-2 We are promised that we will …

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It's hard to notice things that aren't happening. So if you've been reading through since the beginning, or following me for a while, you may not have noticed that I have a policy of trying to avoid certain Christian terms. Especially if you're reading this through a translation, or you don't know anything about …

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