You just do what people doBut people aren’t always wiseAnd if you think what’s right to doThen people’re thinking otherwiseYou try to be a simple guyFree of all pretence and prideThat’s fine, you need not shyCoz’ pompous shows never abide.So just do that which is rightWatch ‘gainst the popular liesStay calm, keep destiny in sightYou’ll always be good doing wi...
Grace and Mercy of God and Full life (John 10 10-12) - Article
Published in REVIVE Magazine, July 2021The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it….” (John 10:10-12)Recent studies in sheep...
Automatic Retributive Justice - Karma. Vs Nyaya
While the idea seems attractive and naturalistic, it renders all notion of wisdom, human institutions of justice, reward and punishment meaningless. Why bother about government, police, courts if justice is automatic. Therefore, the Nyaya logicians argued for the Moral governor of the univer...
God's Silence - Verse
A spectacle to the crowd
If one cares to be audience,
A receptacle of God
Though He acts in silen...
Any Speed Limit in Genesis 1 Act
If light speed has a limit and so does everything else in the universe, was there a limit to the speed things were created in Gen 1?Ans: The Gen 1 account talks of the creation of light, stars, and the sun quite apart from each other (unless one wishes to read Big Bang into it). If so, the act of creation was not subject to the law of speed limit; in fact so because the act itself created lig...
Jesus ate fish (post-resurrection) - Implications
Luk 24:42-43 “They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.” (NIV)Firstly, food was not sustenance to Him. He was immortal and eternal.Secondly, resurrection did not mean He could not eat meat (here, fish)Thirdly, He ate to provide proof of His resurrecti...
Divine Temporality, Craig, Kant, and Epistemics - Thoughts
Ratio-reductionist theology culminates in counter-intuitive discourses. Ratio-reductionist theology is theology that attempts to map divine being and attributes in terms of extra-empirical/counter-empirical, i.e. purely rational conceptualization that is aversive of spatio-temporality, motion, change, plurality, and contingency - well conceptualized in the philosophies of monism and non-dualism.Empirical theologies, on the other hand, do otherwise. Polytheistic theologies are a good example of these. The divine is spatio-temporal, and other things...
Nathan Zacharias and Margie Zacharias defend Ravi Zacharias
Check out the blog post at Defending Ravi" My Mom recently sent an email to some friends and family that is being circulated. She’s since asked me to post it here to ensure it’s ongoing accuracy. Good am, Family. I love you all. I wanted you all to know that I have spent the last week going through every paper and article in […]Email From My ...
Buttress of Belief
The Bible does not encourage blind belief. It provides buttresses of belief varying according to context, some of which include:A miraculous sign (e.g. Moses in Egypt; Isaiah..)A covenant sign and oath (e.g. Abraham, Lord's Supper)A surety or guarantee (e.g. Passover..)A particular requested sign (e.g Gideon's fleece)A particular factual sign (e.g. Elizabeth to Mary)A prophetic word - dream (e.g. Joseph to the prisoners)A prophetic word - knowledge...
Dialectics of Vaccination
(google images, reuters.com)The African variant is said to have beaten Pfizer's vaccine according to an Israeli study.Humans invent vaccine to beat the virusThe virus develops immunity to beat the vaccine... ad infinitumDialectical vaccination...
Zoom classes and alienation
(cartoon circulating on social media nowadays)Zoom, webex, meet, ...... Pros and consPros:1. Safe inside2. Time saver3. Less paper4. Less expensive than classroom5. Travel money saver6. Video recording, sharing...7. Polls, annotations, etcCons:1. Connection issues2. More distractions (unless in quiet room and phones off)3. Screen stress4. Social alienation5. Depersonalization (cams off, no response, lack of personal touch)6. No non-verbal...
Resurrection poem
HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!One act of justiceCancelled our woesOne act of surrenderDefeated all foesOne act of powerBroke the graveWhen Christ aroseOn Resurrection Day!It was no fiction,The crucifixion.No hallucination,The resurrection.They all saw Him dieSo does history testify,And timid apostles did the world defyAfter they saw their Lord alive!He died, He rose, He liv...
On the Internal Witness of Scriptures
I think it is very erroneous to assume that the internal witness of Scripture is unreliable unless supported by external (or extra biblical) testimony. 1. When witnesses to an account are two or more, the testimony already carries a level of reliability. The Pentateuch, Kings, Chronicles, Prophets, Gospels contain accounts by varying sources that can be cross-referenced to gain a fair historical picture.2. Cases of sole testimony cannot be disregarded as totally unreliable as per the rule of truth-expression. To stipulate that one must not...
Why did Jesus' birth and resurrection happen so secretly or were revealed only to a few?
The scriptural evidence argues otherwise.1. The birth of Jesus was announced by angels to the shepherds who not only visited Him but also talked about their experiences.2. Before His birth there was the pre-evidence of Zacharias, Elizabeth, and Mary herself from her experience and visit to Elizabeth.3. The Magi declared their finding to Herod who cross-referenced it with the Jewish scriptures, but tried to eliminate Jesus.4. His birth was not a secret. Yet it was a mystery of Godliness against the mystery of ungodliness that is also at work in...
Does Evolution have a mind of its own? Does it decide?
Ever since Darwin, there is a tendency to ground human behavior (regardless of the ethical question) on some numinous mind or intent of evolution itself. One of the most popular is the gene or species survival argument that tries to explain several acts like adultery/promiscuity and even murder and suicide as grounded in evolution's intent to make more gene copies or ensure species survival, thus attempting to deterministically ground human behaviors in some underlying, unconscious (collective) force, principle or "archetype". Thus, the responsibility...
Light of the World
"You are the light of the world,"He unhesitatingly said.Your task is to speak the wordReversing darkness and death.Words are lamps, words are lightThey bring healing, they give sight.In a world of ideas, dark and deadThe breath of the Spirit is the light of life.In a life so wrecked by sin's evil webThe word of the Spirit is the Healer's knife.The word is in your mouth, so let it outIn speaking and writing, say it loud!Words are lamps, words are...
The 4 Pillars of Faith
Rev 2:4-5 NHEB 4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent. _______________________________________________Evidence and intellectual assent alone is not faith.Passion and zeal alone is not faith.Faithfulness alone is not faith.Diligent labor alone is not faith.Faith requires all. TRUTH.(1Tim.2:7; Jn.8:32) - CognitionLOVE (Gal.5:6; I Pet.1:8)...
The centrality of faith: resurrection
And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!I Corinthians 15:17 NKJVThe Bible records the testimonies of those who saw Christ alive and proclaimed alive not only by angels but by Himself along with what they perceived as "irrefutable proofs" which included not only His consuming broiled fish and honeycomb (Lk 24.42,43) but also His unveiling of the OT prophecies regarding His death and resurrection.The resurrection of Christ is proof of the annulment of curse and the defeat of death serving as the guarantee of the...
