Posted on April 13, 2009 by elliotbee
What is the most important thing you did yesterday, or will do today?
What is the most important thing you did last year, or will do this year?
What is the most important thing you have done, or will do, in your whole life?
The answer in every case is: “Jesus Christ died for me.”
The most important thing [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2009 by elliotbee
…is lots more fun than putting it back together.
Someone asked me today about a question her roommate asked her not long ago. If we live our whole lives without God but then repent at the last minute, won’t God forgive us and save us? If not, how can you say He is so loving? If [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2008 by elliotbee
Étienne Gilson says on page 83 of his Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages that “faith is not a principle of philosophical knowledge, but it is a safe guide to rational truth and an infallible warning against philosophical error.” The point being that, while faith cannot provide rationally deductive demonstrations of this or that [...]
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