Faith deconstruction and reconstruction “I can’t believe that!” said Alice. “Can’t you?” the Queen said in a pitying tone. “Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.” Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was […]
Everyone has a story Sociologists say that nearly 50% of people have a major faith transition in their life. It may be from belief to non-belief, a change of religion, a conversion from non-belief to belief, or a change of beliefs within the one religion. Deconstruction refers to the process of analysing and rejecting beliefs […]
Are you the sort of christian whose faith is built more on reason and evidence than an experience of God? Do you enjoy answering sceptics’ questions about Jesus and the Bible? Perhaps even enjoy arguing with atheists online? Have you considered that apologetics might be dangerous for your faith? (Well, sort of! But read on!) […]
Believing the Bible is what it appears to be rather than what we may want it to be solves a lot of problems.
This page in brief …. The Old Testament of the Bible records the Israelite nation fleeing Egypt in the Late Bronze Age (somewhere between 1500 and 1200 BCE), conquering dozens of cities in Canaan and killing all their inhabitants – all at the command of their God, Yahweh. Critics of the Bible point to these […]
Did Jesus mean it to come to this? Doctrine. For some people it is a delicious word, their bread and butter. For others it is a word they wish to avoid because they think it is responsible for many an unnecessary argument. I think I’ve changed position on it during my life. So I think […]
Book review: “Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes” by Kenneth Bailey. Quite simply one of the most enlightening books I have read about Jesus.
The exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their travel to the Promised Land is one of the key events in Jewish religious history, and, therefore, in christian belief as well. But did it actually happen? Did something like 2 million people cross the Red Sea and through the Sinai, aided and guided by miraculous […]
As a young christian I was told that the love God has for us, and the love he wants us to have for others, is a self-giving love, for which the New Testament writers used the Greek word agape. This understanding was reinforced by reading the CS Lewis book, The Four Loves, which spoke about […]
This page in brief It is one of the most central teachings of christianity that Jesus died to save us from our sins, a doctrine known as the atonement. But it has come under scrutiny in recent years – from believers, who want to understand and explain it better, and from non-believers (and a few […]