Domenic Marbaniang

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 Mom

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 (e.g. Jesus to Samaritan woman) A prophetic word - foretelling (e.g. Jesus to Peter...) A healing, providential, protective, deliverance miracle (e.g. Gospels) An angelic sign (e.g. Resurrection) A divine stroke (e.g. Uzziah's leprosy, Zachariah's muteness, Miriam's leprosy) Prophetic fulfillment (Jewish and Gentile, including the Star of Magi) etcc.... Since the nature of the belief is supernatural, the buttress usually is also supernatural.  A written legal surety - The Bible (Word of God)  A living personal sure...

(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 virus The virus develops immunity to beat the vaccine... ad infinitum Dialectical vaccinationism

(cartoon circulating on social media nowadays) Zoom, webex, meet, ...... Pros and cons Pros: 1. Safe inside 2. Time saver 3. Less paper 4. Less expensive than classroom 5. Travel money saver 6. Video recording, sharing... 7. Polls, annotations, etc Cons: 1. Connection issues 2. More distractions (unless in quiet room and phones off) 3. Screen stress 4. Social alienation 5. Depersonalization (cams off, no response, lack of personal touch) 6. No non-verbal feedback for teacher (when cams off) - highly demotivating 7. Less engagement 8. More burden on teacher to engage class 9. Breakout rooms, not very successful unlike class group discussions 10. Virtualization of life and habit

HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY! One act of justice Cancelled our woes One act of surrender Defeated all foes One act of power Broke the grave When Christ arose On Resurrection Day! It was no fiction, The crucifixion. No hallucination, The resurrection. They all saw Him die So does history testify, And timid apostles did the world defy After they saw their Lord alive! He died, He rose, He lives!

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 testify or witness unless his/her experience is shared by others is to impose a gag on truth-expression or the possibility of hearing truth. In fact, it is a sealing of self from the possible sole source of information. Sole testimony, however, is also open to challenge if there can be enough reasons for raising such a challenge. But, in the most central narratives in Scripture, the witness party includes several persons. Thus, as per #1, the c...