The other day I was complaining about how bad Christmas was last year because I was in the States and I only got 1 terrible present that my brother bought for himself. It appears my ingratitude has tipped my karmic imbalance toward samsara even further and the gods seek vengence on me. I'm working every day now till Christmas (minus sunday) and all day on Christmas Eve. ... I … [Read more...]
Spurgeon on Catholicism
Mike Walcher sent this to me in an email I found it interesting as I like Spurgeon alot, even though he really hated Catholicism."In Brussels, I heard a good sermon in a Romish church. The place was crowded with people, many of them standing, though they might have had a seat for a halfpenny or a farthing; and I stood, too; and the good priest — for I believe he is a good man, … [Read more...]
Enlightenment Deism & The Church Fathers
For history I've had to read some of the advocates of Enlightenment Deism, and I've had to say that they make the most reasonable case. I've been a Deist before (with a kind of Christian tinge of course) but I was thinking about it today and how it fit with Ancient Christianity.Deism is the belief in one God who is revealed by reason, experience, and nature. Not scripture. … [Read more...]
The Alluring Call of Lutheran Anti-nomianism
"2 Cor 3, 5–6 Paul writes:"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves;but our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made us able ministers of the NewTestament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but thespirit giveth life." The apostle speaks of this apostolic activity. Preachers of this Christian era must bear in mind … [Read more...]
Jesus – A Message Worth Teaching
I was talking with one of my old Baptist pastors on friday night about my conversion and why I'm becoming Catholic. It was actually ironic because I explained to him the logical arguments and why I felt I was obligated to become Catholic whether I wanted to or not and then I started complaining about the Church and about how no one actually knew Jesus or the gospel in it to … [Read more...]