Samson's Jawbone

In this election year abortion is on the ballot. One side supports a woman's right to choose without restriction. Abortion should be legal they claim until birth, which goes beyond the recently overturned Roe v. Wade decision. Some favor abortion until the time of birth and even allow for a period of time after birth when infanticide is permitted. The other side the believes that a child's life should be protected except for rare occasions.  For Cristians the issue of abortion is particularly significant because it has to do with how we view both God and man. It is a fundamental theological issue. How does God view life, and what is our obligation to the unborn? The original Roe v. Wade decision was argued as a civil rights decision. The basis of the argument was that a woman is free to make her own private decision about her own body. The justices found that there was an "implied right to privacy within the language of the 4th Amendment of the U.S Constitution, and since

  On January 24, 2022 the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) announced it's decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization. Their  announcement follows: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” This decision ended, probably permanently, federal protection of the right of a woman to have an abortion without limits or restriction. It left abortion to the discretion of the states in accord with the 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This decision came down even though the brief of the decision had been leaked to the media more than a month earlier.  The leak which had come from someone in one of the justices' offices gave a prelude to how polarizing this decision would be. The justices' homes were picketed in an a

The current claim of many evangelical leaders is that evangelicals who support Donald Trump are "white Christian nationalist." The term "white Christian nationalist" is a fairly new term in the public-square and it has not, to my knowledge, been clearly defined.    It's hard to answer critics of "white Christian nationalism," it is associated with certain people and political causes. Terms like this that lack definition are euphemisms. They are used to create an emotional response. The term itself is a pejorative, designed to intimidate.   Why the term "white" as opposed to "black, Asian, Hispanic, or native American nationalism." Is a "black, Asian or Native American" Christian who is a conservative somehow disparaged by the term. Those who use this term associate it with whites, or non- white's "sold out" to white establishment, Uncle Tom's. It assigns motives and beliefs to "white" people wit

  For the first time in this blog's history, I have re-opened a series. It comes after recent conversations with continuationists where my arguments have been rejected. Continuationist claim that cessationists  don't understand the nature of tongues. The debate between continuationist and cessationist almost always goes something like this: Albert (the continuationist) almost always claims that there is no biblical basis for cessationism that it denies God's ability to work miracles. George (the cessationist) points out that the assertion is a negative. A negative is not proof a of positive. If I say, "I say I did not catch a fish," that statement fails to say anything whether there were any fish in the pond, or whether I was even fishing.  An argument that cessationist do not believe something, is not an argument in favor of continuationism. Incidentally, it is a false claim. Cessationist do believe in spiritual gifts, and miracles, they just don't believe th

 What do you do if a close family member or a co-worker with whom you have shared the gospel, and who understands that you live by biblical ethics, invites you to their marriage ceremony where they are marrying their same sex or transgender partner? They know you think homosexuality is sin, and that you believe marriage us reserved for heterosexual union, but they are still friendly with you. Do you risk the relationship by renouncing he wedding? Most Christians I know say that attendance at the wedding puts one in the position of being "a partner " in the marriage, making us enablers and supporters of egregious sin in direct disobedience to God's word. "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the l