Month: August 2014

Don: Our discussion of the truth about god seems to have led us to conclude that it has elements both of knowledge (“data points”) and of faith. On the one hand, if the truth about god is to be a timeless truth, it cannot be bound by culture or by age; as we read in…

Don: Last week I said we would look at Romans 1:18-25, which gives an explicit definition of the truth about god: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for…

8 August 2014 Last updated at 12:04 ET A Point of View: Why not caring about anything is only for the young by Will Self It is not the content of our beliefs that really matters, so much as the practice of believing itself, argues Will Self. In Dostoevsky’s great metaphysical whodunit, The Brothers Karamazov,…

Don: Last week we asked several questions about the truth about god. Does the truth about god require data to support it, as scientific truth does? Has the accumulation of data over time given modern Wo/Man a more complete truth about god than our ancestors had? Or is there something about the truth about god…

Can we test the truth that is God? Can we determine whether what the bible says about god is accurate? Or for that matter whether scripture from any world religion is measurable or accurate? My gut instinct says no. Critical biblical scholars say no. Only those who believe in a religious system tend to believe…

Don: We are still looking at the question of what is truth; in particular, the truth about god. 1 John 4:1-8 and 18-21 tell us: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you…