August 2008

excerpts from my journal #4 – Christian Democracy

August 20, 2008

Christianity’s Dangerous Idea p.99 Democracy was (arguably) first truly applied to public government through the application of Calvin’s ideas of church government to the secular politics by John Knox. [1/19/08]

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excerpts from my journal – #3 Goldilocks and the church

August 19, 2008

As I read and learn more and more about the history of the basic branches of the Protestant church I find that the pattern of too-hard – too-soft – just-right in almost every run down of their distinctives and doctrines. There are issues of the “real presence” in communion, baptism (both child and believer’s), church [...]

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excerpts from my journal – #2 John Calvin’s influence

August 18, 2008

From Christianity’s Dangerous Idea p. 94 Calvin’s greatest contribution to the Protestant church is the ability he demonstrated to be able to be build a solid basis of theology on the Bible… It’s crazy to me that it was any other way at other post-canonical period of time! This just betrays the success of Calvin’s [...]

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excerpts from my journal – #1 question (for God)

August 17, 2008

This question and prayer came after reading a portion of the history of the Protestant Reformation where Luther actually had someone executed for preaching a differing understanding of baptism than himself… Is there an example of anyone in the scriptures who died because of bad doctrine on par with a bad understanding of baptism (or [...]

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Life on Mars

August 16, 2008

So, as Carrie and I were listening to the NPR game show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” they talked about a chemical that was found on Mars’ surface that they are saying would hinder the chances of finding life there. I don’t know what the chemical is and it doesn’t matter when it comes to [...]

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