Following up on the preceding blogpost (“God Showing Off”), if you want to see more of God showing off, then go to the zoo. Our granddaughter’s recent two-year birthday party was at a city-run quasi-farm, geared to kids and with lots of cows, donkeys, goats, pigs, turkeys, and chickens that you could see up close. … [Read more…]
My wife and I drove last weekend from one end of Virginia to the other on non-interstate highways, and the weather was beautiful and the scenery breathtaking. And it occurred to me that perhaps those works of God that trigger not only thanks but deep adoration — love, natural beauty, complexity, music, laughter — are … [Read more…]
The difference between immorality and immortality is the +.
With a nod to St. Paul (Romans 7:15), we can divide our sins into four categories: bad acts and bad thoughts, and failure to do good acts and failure to think good thoughts. Regarding that last category, Jesus told us that the two great commandments are to love God and to love our neighbors as … [Read more…]
From the archives, here’s the first installment of “The Bachelor” series: It seems that the original bachelor had an unfortunate backstory, becoming separated from his first wife after he got drunk and tried to humiliate her. To replace the unfortunate woman, the show conducted a search that was nationwide — indeed, known-world-wide. An incredible number … [Read more…]
We are told near the outset of the Bible that the Jews are God’s chosen people and that through them He will bless all mankind. Now, what are the odds that this ancient collection of writings would not only survive but become probably the most influential book of all time, and that this quite small … [Read more…]
You can always count on this blogsite to ask and answer the easy questions! One must acknowledge first of all that God is intelligent and all-present to an extent and in ways that we cannot begin to fathom. But here are some thoughts I had on what His relationship with us might be like: Think … [Read more…]
Not only is the Scriptural basis of the Trinity solid (see here and here, for example), but the concept makes sense. For example, it enables the eternity of love, making it easy to understand how love could exist even before the Creation: The three elements of the Trinity could love one another. And the Trinity … [Read more…]
I thought it worthwhile to include this link to T.S. Eliot’s introduction to an edition of Blaise Pascal’s Pensees. As the name of this blogsite indicates, I am a great fan of Pascal’s — and T.S. Eliot is, well, T.S. Eliot. I learned about the introduction from a recent Wall Street Journal review by Joseph … [Read more…]
There are intimations in the Bible, and speculation in sermons I’ve heard, about what our resurrected physical bodies may be like and how they may differ from our present bodies — but how about our resurrected psyches? Surely they, too, must change. You don’t have to be a total-depravity Calvinist to recognize that every person’s … [Read more…]