Last time, I talked about one aspect of the problem that faces us. It is really only one aspect of a large problem, but in some sense it is the part that most concerns me. God can not bless us with what he wants to bless us with, eternal life and joy, because we are broken. Giving it to us now in our current state …

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One of most intriguing things about the Bible is its holographic nature. Writing such a complicated document would be a challenge for an individual author in one time period, but the way it holds together over centuries is astonishing. Unfortunately, while I find this metaphor very interesting, the term "hologram" has …

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Grand Theft Auto 6's price. Sony dropping their physical disks despite customer outcry. Subscriptions everywhere you turn. The entire concept of "enshittification". Anti-consumer practices everywhere. I have been discussing this with people online in various places lately. I propose a simple solution: If you don't like …

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How good do you have to be to live forever? How good would the people around you have to be? Assume for this post that you are going to live forever. Not specifically the "Christian" idea of living forever, just, you're not going to die. You'll stay your optimum age, say, 25 years old. You won't get sick. No worries …

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Sometimes I debate with people about school reform. I will propose that some particular topic should be removed from the standard curriculum, and that we should add something else instead. Or perhaps that a certain set of facts should be removed, so that we can teach some other skill instead. These debates never go …

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Why does the Bible say that we can become "children of God"? There's a number of angles one can take on that question and perhaps I'll revisit those later. Today I want to discuss why it is "children" of God, and not some other word that implies adulthood. In this world, childhood is a temporary state. Parents are …

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If you are a Christian, or at all interested in Christianity, even just from an intellectual point of view, I highly recommend The Bible Project's series of videos providing an overview of what the books of the Bible are. It goes over each of them in about 5-10 minutes. They have translations into many languages. They …

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In this series of posts about Christianity, which I write as a Christian, I obviously intend to present Jesus Christ as the solution. It is right there in the name, after all. But my previous two posts only talked about how I need to present the problem, and the importance of searching out the truth. I have not yet …

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Previously I discussed the problem that as we are now, we are not good enough to live forever. At the end I made an offhanded comment about how we can not fix ourselves. Today I want to substantiate that a bit. CS Lewis once said Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... bad people, in one …

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This is my first post in what will be a series about Christianity. I hope it will be a series of posts that provides the readers with at least some things they may not have seen before. One of the problems with schools around the world is that they spend years giving out solutions... to people who don't have the …

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