Category Theology

Towards a theology of pets (part 1)

…the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink,…

C. S. Lewis on non-Christians

C. S. Lewis describes the life of a saved Christian as a “Christ-life” or “new life”. In his book Mere Christianity, he briefly touches on the subject of those who have not been able to believe in Christ: Is it…

Justified by Grace (Romans 3:23-24)

If I were ever asked to summarize the message of the Bible in one sentence, I would point to Romans 3:23-24: 23 for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the…

Heiser’s Introduction to the Unseen Realm

I decided to re-read Michael Heiser’s principal work: The Unseen Realm: Recovering the supernatural worldview of the Bible (2015). This book had been in print for a while, but I purchased and read it earlier this year. As with a good deal…

Favorite “Dogma” Quotes

This is just a compilation of some of my favorite quotes from “Dogma”. While this is not the most appropriate movie, it’s script has interesting theology on some topics such as… On plenary indulgence: –This is church law, it’s not…

Translation of John 1:1

This is a study of the first verse of John, done through a translation from the Greek text into English. This verse is part of a larger translation project I am carrying out. For the Greek text, I used Nestle’s…