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Latria and Dulia
I’m slowly working my way through ’The Institutes of the Christian Religion’ by John Calvin at the moment and am expanding my vocabulary in the process. It’s one of those books where it really helps to have a good dictionary (or a device with access to Google!) to hand. I came across a couple of…
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Jesus the Creator?
One of the main purposes of this blog is for me to describe and discuss some of the commonly held Christian beliefs that I find difficult to understand. One idea that I’ve been wrestling with recently is the co-eternality of the three persons of the Trinity. In this brief post I will try to describe…
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The Authority of Scripture
The question of authority in matters of faith is important for any believer in God to consider. How can we know with any degree of certainty what God expects of us? Within Christianity specifically, we have to consider whether the Bible is infallible and inerrant and should be considered the sole rule of faith for…
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Does God Have Foreknowledge?
The problem with claiming God has ‘foreknowledge’ is that it implies all future events are already determined. This would only be the case in a kind of clockwork universe where cause leads to effect and nothing can change the wheels that have been set in motion, presumably in the first moment of creation, as those…
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God’s Omnipresence and the Incarnation
I often hear Christians speaking of what a miraculous and wonderful thing it is that God chose to enter into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ in the event known as the Incarnation. The problem with this notion is that it implies that God is normally somehow separated from creation. How can…
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My Guilty Americano
As a Christian and a person who believes it’s right to try to live in pursuit of holiness and to practise godliness wherever possible, I sometimes find myself experiencing moral dilemmas concerning how to act appropriately in certain situations. I believe that telling the truth is very important. Sometimes it can be tempting to tell a white lie.…
About STEVEN
Steven Colborne is an author, musician and counsellor from the United Kingdom. On this blog he writes about philosophy, religion and spirituality and shares a variety of personal articles.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
