Is Belief in God Bad or Irrelevant?

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Is Belief in God Bad or Irrelevant?

December 16, 2008 in Blog with 1 Comment

I just started reading the book; ‘Is Belief in God Good, Bad or Irrelevant?: A Professor And a Punk Rocker Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity‘ that Kyle told me about.

First off, I am a major fan of Bad Religion. I have every album they ever made and then some. Greg Graffin, the lead singer, is really intelligent and writes some very thought provoking lyrics. He has a Ph. D. in zoology with a focus on evolution and naturalism.

The book is basically a transcript of emails between Graffin and a Professor at John Brown University (Christian school), Preston Jones.

The reason I bring this up relates to how I ‘work out me salvation‘.

I like to take my beliefs and throw them into the roughest seas and see if they float. I have such confidence in my beliefs that I find joy in standing them up next to any paradigm you can come up with and watching them shine.

How do you ‘work out your salvation‘?

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The Bookshelf

August 18, 2008 in Blog with 4 Comments

I love reading. I didn’t used to until the summer after my first year of Bible college. College required a lot of reading and I was the photographic memory guy in high school that never read or did homework but still got a B on every test. College was a little tougher and I had to at least skim the books to do well on the test.

The high level of thinking and just plain better books than the junk they throw at you in high school sparked a more refined interest in reading for me.

I have been doing the goodreads.com thing for a while, I am going to try and keep up with it a little more. when ever I need an idea about a book, I cruise Mike’s bookshelf and fill up my ‘to read’ list.

Currently I am reading Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. Yes, it’s a girly book. My wife wanted me to read it…so I am. Although I can’t read it in public because the version I have has a cover that looks like the books with Fabio on the cover in the checkout stand.