Archive for April, 2009

If We Have to Use Mathematical Analogies…

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

We have no choice but to use mathematical analogies in even our most subtle thoughts about moral and spiritual issues since mathematics, by definition, is the proper way in this universe to describe paths. We move over paths even in the events of our innermost lives, we develop over paths. Our current moral talk and [...]

Confronting Tradition Respectfully

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

There are those who passively accept what they’re taught and they are those who rebel as if instinctively, denying traditional beliefs and outlooks by denying conclusions without remembering that human thought is a process. It remains a process even when dealing with truths revealed by God — which are far fewer in number than many [...]

Taking the Fresh Fruits and Giving God the Leftovers

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

The point I’d like to make is a general one, but I’m mostly targeting my fellow-Christians who have the greater responsibility if they truly have the belief they claim in God as the all-powerful Creator of this world. First, a poem by Emily Dickinson: Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see, But microscopes [...]