Good morning friends,
Quote of the week:
All ideals divine, transcendent, human, or invented are capable of being abused. That’s just the way human nature is. And that happens to religion as well. Belief in God can be abused, and we need to be very clear, in the first place, that abuse happens, and in the second, that we need to confront and oppose this. But abuse of an ideal does not negate its validity. – Alister McGrath
Now, here are your weekly links:
- (PDF) Undesigned Scriptural Coincidences – AN UNDESIGNED COINCIDENCE is an occasion where several independent narratives (in Scripture) contain insignificant details which can be compared with one another. The coincidence exists if the details fit together to provide an additional picture which is not part of the main narrative. The existence of such coincidences is good evidence of the accuracy of the accounts in which it is embedded. The presence of undesigned coincidences would be difficult for a writer of fiction to incorporate in the narrative. It would be even more difficult if several different authors were to attempt to produce one between them. The only satisfactory explanation for an undesigned coincidence is that the accounts report a real event in some detail.: http://www.biblethink.org.uk/pdfdocs/OnePage/UDC.pdf
- Greg Koukl on the Problem of Evil – White Horse Inn: https://whitehorseinn.org/resource-library/shows/greg-koukl-on-the-problem-of-evil/
- Santa Claus: Harmless Fun or Tragic Distraction? // Ask Pastor John (Piper) on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/195347347
- Is the Sabbath Still Required for Christians?: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/schreiner-qa-is-the-sabbath-still-required-for-christians/?am
- Trotting Out the Toddler-Many pro-choice arguments would be unthinkable if applied to a toddler. It’s a good tactic to trot out the toddler. Show the absurdity of the argument by showing what it would mean if applied to a toddler. It refocuses the argument on the one question that matters: What is the unborn?: https://www.str.org/w/trotting-out-the-toddler
- Saint Nicholas and the Origins of Santa Claus – It might surprise many today to find out that Saint Nicholas (spoiler alert) is a real person after all. Is he the white-bearded man with a red suit, a cap, and a sleigh?: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/saint-nicholas-origins-santa-claus
If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life Exodus 21:22-23
Blessings to you all