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Romans 13:1-7:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.”

The relationship of Christians to the government has been a vital and controversial issue from the start of the Christian age. Even from the beginning of Christ’s ministry, many—in fact, most—of his disciples were under the false impression that he had come to overthrow the oppressive Roman government and establish a physical kingdom. [Read more →]

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If the activity of this website has been any indication, I have been sickeningly busy for the past couple of weeks. I have not ignored the engaging comments on my last entry, but at this point, I plan to address the issues in a new article rather than lately rejoin the discussion.

This said, I would like to give a little taste of upcoming articles on Cogito. [Read more →]

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There are many reasons I am a Creationist. Of course, a lot of my views stem from “faith” that the Bible is God’s true word. But what is faith? Hebrews 11:1 says it is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” This is, of course, a perfect description of Christian faith, a concept consistently ridiculed by the atheistic community. However, in the realm of cosmology, atheistic scientists are operating on the same type of “faith” as those they judge ignorant. [Read more →]

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In the past few years I’ve been all over the Internet. I’ve authored a fair number of blogs, abandoned them, and moved on to start new blogs (often about the same things). My longest running project has been via crucis, a blog about Christianity and scriptural honesty. That blog’s big break was a response I wrote to Jeff Sharlet’s article on abstinence in Rolling Stone. [Read more →]

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