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Aquinas Shows How God Keeps It Real

Gene Callahan linked to a very interesting post by Ed Feser. It begins in this way, and note that I’m going to abandon my normal formatting style and keep the italics the way Feser wrote it: [FESER:] For the Thomist, to say that God is the First Cause of things is, first and foremost, to […]

Do What Jesus Says, Not What I Do

Every once in a while I like to make sure nobody thinks I am arguing, “Look at how moral I am, therefore Christianity is true.” The worst part about my inflation bet wasn’t that I was out $500, or even that my personal forecasting reputation was cast into doubt, but rather that I hadn’t bent […]

Awkward Correction

Josiah Neeley posted about this Washington Post article on Facebook:

Jesus Fulfills the Law: Reconciling Faith and Works

This post will only interest believing Christians, but I wanted to share something that recently occurred to me. In Matthew 5:17 Jesus famously says, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.” He also explained what the two greatest commandments were […]

Judge Not

Here’s a quintessentially Christian command (Mt 7: 1-3): 7 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do […]

The Living God

Gene Callahan linked to a very interesting review of David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss. (The review itself is written by Mark Anthony Signorelli.) Yet in seeing Gene argue in the comments, I understand why Gene’s critic(s) think he is “redefining” terms when arguing that God must exist, even though Gene claims he […]

Further Thoughts on Evolution

A month or two ago Jim Manzi dropped a link in the comments here to his dispute with Jerry Coyne on evolution. Here was Manzi’s original salvo, here’s Coyne’s response, and then Manzi answers again. They key point in all of this is that Manzi was not denying, say, that all existing life forms have […]

The Kingdom of God

A short post but perhaps profound. I was explaining to my son that Jesus would not so much talk about “getting into heaven” but rather about the Kingdom of God (or in some gospels the Kingdom of heaven, but it’s clear that it’s in an earthly context). I went on to explain that Jesus never […]