Rebecca DeYoung, my philosophy teacher at Calvin College, had us read excerpts of numerous ancient works. The topic that most impacted me in that course was the search for happiness – what is the ultimate good of a human being? What should we make our goal in life? Aristotle, Boethius and Thomas Aquinas reject a number of inferior goods that many people past and present have made their life’s goal to attain: power, » Continue reading “False sources of ultimate happiness”

I’ll find my place

And I’ll get in line

Stop buckin’ the system

Tell my will to resign

I’ll bite my lip

And I’ll swallow my pride

Nothing’s ever gonna change

So it’s useless to fight

I’ll be one of the sheep

And I’ll do it their way

I’ll accept my defeat

I’ll submit and obey

Won’t be nobody’s martyr

Been burned enough before

I’ll just work a little harder

And comply a little more

I can only hope

There’ll come someone else

Someone with a bit more nerve

Someone who’ll ring the bells

Until then you can find me

Where I’m told I belong

If you hoped me the hero

Well I guess you were wrong

I thought I would list my various articles on infant baptism so that visitors can read them in order. This also makes a handy link for me when I mention my articles to others. Blessings.

1. My convoluted interactions with the doctrine of baptism

2. Two ‘Reformed’ hangups I had regarding infant baptism

3. A Giffmex defense of infant baptism

4. A clarification regarding the ‘Reformed hangups’ post

1. Many scholars believe the author was Jude the half-brother of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3. Roman Catholic scholars deny that Mary gave birth to other children, and so deny that Jude was a half-brother of Jesus.

2. Eusebius relates an interesting but dubious story in which Roman emperor Domitian interrogated two of Jude’s grandsons. After his interrogation, he decided to halt his persecution of Christians, finding them to be poor country bumpkins waiting for a heavenly kingdom, and thus no threat to his own kingdom.

» Continue reading “30 fascinating facts and questions about the letter of Jude”

This is a theory I dreamed up long ago, and it got in print in the Door magazine many years ago. But it just occured to me that it ought to be on my blog so that the word gets out.

I won’t belabor the point. It’s fairly obvious when you think about it. Were Walt Disney ever to come back from the dead, he would be the antichrist for sure. » Continue reading “Walt Disney is the antichrist”