Should We Desire Eureka/Aha? The Pursuit of Eureka!/Aha!
Does Eureka!/Aha! keep us from living living? No, a Eureka!/Aha! moment does not move us from living. Rather a Eureka!/Aha! moment results from participation with life.
When Death Is the Greatest Danger, One Hopes for Life
When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. – Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
Life Must Be Understood Backwards, But Lived Forwards
It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find […]
Eternal Life: A Christian Perspective
The other day I was asked, “What is eternal life?” This question came up in relation to John 3:14 which says, “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.” I will try to provide […]
Claims by Others That Jesus Is God
As religions other than Christianity are teaching that Jesus never claimed to be God, reasons why the Church believes Jesus is God, and claimed as much, is good to have. For this reason I have put this group of posts together. I hope that in reading this you will see the truth, Jesus did claim; […]
Two Evils: Forsaking God & Trusting Our Work
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water. The first and greatest evil in this verse, and really in general, is turning away from God’s life giving Spirit. Being turned from God is death, not because God is punishing us, but that God is life. His Spirit has always been, and […]