Stopping to Think

  The Shepherd Leader by James Van Yperen My rating: 2 of 5 stars Some good quotes and helpful ideas. Poorly written, organized, and edited. Might have been good as a 5,000 word article. View all my reviews

Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash An Overview and Interaction with the Basic Ideas of Frederich Nietzsche The Man “Frederich Nietzsche was born in rural Prussia, the son and grandson of Lutheran pastors.” A brilliant philologist, he became a professor at just 24 years old at the University of Basil. While his career was short, cut off in 1889 due to a mental breakdown from which he never recovered, he still is read as one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century, and the modern period. In this paper I want to address three aspects of Nietzsche's thought, and contrast them with a biblical perspective. These three areas are the genealogy of morals, the death of God, and the nature of humanity. Together they help display his desire to make a radical break with the assumed Christianity of his day. From Whence Come Morals? In his book The Genealogy of Morals (1887) Nietzsche “sets out to challenge our most basic assumptions, especially our notions of good and

Useful introduction to the Greek Philosophers, meatier than Sproul's Consequences of Ideas , though obviously limited to a narrower timeframe.  Not always clearly organized, which made moving quickly to grab the big ideas difficult. I will probably come back through at a slower pace at a later date, but my precis paper was due. Such is life. But this a valuable introductory work, and removed some of my hesitation toward jumping into Plato and Aristotle directly.  Read my Good reads reviews here

How to Be Free from Bitterness: And Other Essays on Christian Relationships by Jim Wilson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This may be the most spiritually beneficial book I read in 2022. Clear and direct teaching. The essays on relationships with parents and saturation love are worth the price of the book. The Q & A on becoming a Christian is beautiful in its wisdom. I’m going to buy a case of these. View all my reviews

  Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap: 50 Politically Incorrect Thoughts for Men by Greg Krehbiel My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is going to be given frequently as a gift. To borrow from Doug Wilson's introduction, this book is filled with good horse sense. The first half was good, saying lots of obvious hit not so p/c things; sometimes relying on an evolutionary mindset that is unstable, but doing so in a way which illustrates the rampant instability of our modern insanity on sex and the relationship between the sexes. The second part, giving men advice, was also fantastic. Again: good horse sense. Not p/c, by largely a/c (that is, actually correct). Highly recommended. View all my reviews

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Enjoyable, horrifying, fun. Neil Gaiman is a top notch writer, and his narration of the audiobook was excellent as well. I had very little knowledge of Norse Mythology, but my sense is that this is how you should experience it - as if being told the tales of the gods, rather than reading about them in a textbook form. The stories themselves are both fascinating, entertaining, and atrocious. The gods of the North, though superhuman in certain ways, are utterly human in all the ways that matter most. Which, I suppose, is what we should expect from gods made in man’s image. View all my reviews

                                                                           Photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash    Introduction Inerrancy is the belief that the Bible is entirely inspired by God, such that each and every word proceeds from his mouth and is as truthful as God himself is truthful. ‘While the technical term inerrancy is of recent origin, the conviction that the Bible is “without error” is not.’ So state Greg Boyd and Paul Eddy in their essay on inerrancy in Across the Spectrum. The argument of this paper will be that such a view is not of recent origin because the Scriptures themselves teach that they are without error. And as Wayne Grudem writes, “ to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. ” To put it provocatively, to disbelieve inerrancy is to question the truthfulness of God. Old Testament Use The Old Testament reveals God as a speaking God. God’s word is powerful and authoritative, and is the means by which the earth and the heaven