Heather contributed with the following comment:
“This is another thing I’ve found interesting about conservative Christianity in general — discouraging members from reading books that promote opposing viewpoints. Or just reading books on those opposing viewpoints that are written by conservative Christianity.”
Many of the comments that are made by readers leave me thinking for some time, [...]
JennoPo, joeyanne and Heather discuss the very essence of Christianity - our salvation and our means of salvation. The Bible is NOT that clear what it means to attain salvation. Matthew, James and Revelation in particular seem to think you are saved by faith and the law. Paul’s letters are all about grace. What about the [...]
I just read an article by societyvs, where he describes debating some Mormon missionaries who visited his house. His knowledge of Mormonism is most impressive, but I had to reply. I don’t normally copy from other people’s sites, but my reply to societyvs is most appropriate for my own site:
My dad is a Mormon of [...]
I placed this site here in the hopes of organizing my thoughts and maybe getting some feedback. Not just a way for me to spout off, but a way of sharing ideas that hopefully I could learn from. My last article, Why do you Love Jesus? really stirred up a hornets nest, and I learned [...]
It has been a long and emotional weekend in the HeIsSailing household. My wife and I attended the wedding of dear friends on Saturday. We attended the funeral of another dear friend on Sunday. Many of the same people were in attendence to both, and it was like witnessing the beginning of one life and [...]
This is a question that has nagged me off and on for years as a Fundamentalist Christian. It is a question that I still have today, and I am not satisfied with the answer. Let me share it with you.
Many Fundamentalists share the cliché “I am not religious, I just love the Lord”, or something [...]
I have to stop listening to these Christian radio teachers. I swear they are going to make me blow a gasket. Here is something I transcribed from a recent Dave Hunt broadcast:
Referring to Peter claiming that to God a day is like 1000 years to justify an earth created over 6000 years ago:
How can you [...]
When I first announced to my Christian friends that I would no longer be leading our Bible Study because of my doubting faith, they said I was on a “Faith Journey”. That was about 3 months ago. Two days ago, I was told that I was in a “Faith Crisis”. I feel like my level [...]
A nostalgic trip down memory lane
This filmclip is from the Academy Award winning documentary Marjoe, a film which exposed evangelist Marjoe Gortner as a charlatan. This type of ultra Pentacostalism is the crap that I was raised with during the late 60s- early 70s Jesus Movement. From the looks of it, it was filmed [...]
…or do you accept only on faith?
Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
–Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
