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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 24 mins
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Why the Kingdom of God was never really fighting human empires.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 24 mins
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Why personal knowledge is beyond third-person control.
Read more: Relational Address Realism : Persons as Phenomena
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Complexity Theory - Entropy and Chaos
- Read Time: 29 mins
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A Theodicy of Tested Power. We can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, but God, it turns out, can undo the breaking and still serve the omelet.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 19 mins
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How Scripture targets and eradicates every rival god—and where the story ends.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 16 mins
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The reason why a good Creator allows suffering has been answered... thousands of years before Christ.
Read more: The Third Person Rebuke
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 32 mins
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A critique of NT Wright’s creatio ex vetere.
Read more: Fairness is Blind, Justice is Not
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 16 mins
- Hits: 417
The Enlightenment, Don Quixote, and John Locke’s Cartesian dream
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 24 mins
- Hits: 669
Post-Enlightenment Reformed theology embraced a gospel with much of the spiritual components quietly removed.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Truth as an Absolute
- Read Time: 9 mins
- Hits: 476
Banning offense doesn't protect us—it imprisons us, here's the three-headed beast responsible.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Theology
- Read Time: 12 mins
- Hits: 172
How to Read the Bible's Most Misunderstood Book.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 11 mins
- Hits: 541
“Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who can be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they’re all propaganda and skips the leading articles… He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe anything.”
— Miss Hardcastle, in C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
Read more: The Sacrifice of Common Sense on the Altar of Idealism
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 30 mins
- Hits: 541
The Counter Strain of Utopian and Dystopian Theology
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 19 mins
- Hits: 554
Evil has never needed good men to do nothing.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 16 mins
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Proposing a Formal Discipline—the Relationological as Distinct from the Ontological
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 33 mins
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This article introduces Deipsism (from Latin, Dei- “God” + ipse- “self”) as the rational conclusion of solipsism. Deipsism argues that the certainty of the self (Cogito ergo sum) logically and empirically implies the existence of a "Thou" (Cogito ergo Tu es).
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 17 mins
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God named the forbidden tree before anyone ate from it. And there was knowledge in the name.
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Ethics and Biblical Ethics
- Read Time: 14 mins
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The Name of the Forbidden Tree was the Knowledge That Preceded the Fall
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- Written by: Alan Jones
- Category: Purpose, Meaning, and Existential Concepts
- Read Time: 18 mins
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Why rule-following without a root of devotion produces brittle, compliance based Christians.
It’s not for me, He is the primary beneficiary of His mercy. For freedom Christ has set us free… so that we can choose to witness for His goodness.