I apologize for my absence in cyberspace recently. There are four major reasons why I haven”‘t been posting for a while. The first was our move from Albuquerque to the mountains east of the city. At first we did not have the Internet service...
In Matthew 8 we read of one man's persuasive logic, words that actually stopped Jesus in His tracks, so to speak. (This is one of only two places where a particular Greek word is used to express Jesus' astonishment.) The centurion came to Jesus, and we can see three...
Reasoning with the Lord I previously cited the passage in Isaiah that set me thinking about the possibility that the Lord”‘s invitation, “Come, let us reason together,” could be tied not only logically but also causally to forgiveness. That is...
In struggling with some of the “higher criticism” assessments of scripture, I've had to attempt the same ruthless look at the Bible that I applied to the Book of Mormon when I left Mormonism. The “documentary hypothesis” asserts that Moses did...
Since I'm keeping the “Cult Fiction” blog just for novels, I'd like to post an occasional review of non-fiction here on the Incite Blog.I recently had the privilege of reviewing Breaking the Mormon Code: A Critique of Mormon Scholarship Regarding Classical...
The concept of reasoning with God has a long history in Scripture. We see the way that humans sparred linguistically with God in Abraham's bargaining for Sodom, in Moses' logic to save his people, and throughout the book of Job.I wondered about Isaiah's statement in...
