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To See Scripture’s Plain Meaning Requires A PIOUS Eye
Do Christians disagree in their interpretations of Scripture because Scripture is unclear, perhaps because spiritual truths transcend human language and so cannot be perfectly captured in words? Though many today would answer, “yes,” Samuel Hopkins, writing at the end of … Continue reading
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“Stay Hungry” For Better Piety
Though his text should carry a warning for much of its content (page 68’s error of calling unborn children “potential life” is especially grievous, and scripturally-suspect psychobabble abounds), John White does, in this late-seventies text, provide some information of possible … Continue reading
Does This Watch Make Me Look Old?
John D. Morris, Ph.D., concludes a discussion of various methods for determining the age of the earth by noting how those methods that indicate young ages seem reasonably expected to be more reliable than those indicating ages sufficiently old to … Continue reading
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Looking Inward Is Not The Path To Piety
Richard Ganz condemns the growing popularity in Christian circles of such self-exploratory therapies as “healing of memories,” which Pious Eye would note (from his own observation and experience) seem very popular in seminary “spiritual formation” courses. (Politically correct lamenting over, … Continue reading
If It’s Nonsense, It’s (Still) Not Pious
Ronald H. Nash emphasizes the nature of the Christian God as one who can be known and who communicates verbally with persons he has specially created with an ability to understand such communications. Rationality and perspicuity, not irrationality and ineffable … Continue reading
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Pious Prior Commitment And Choosing A Fork
Yesterday’s quote asked if Byzantine-priority or Majority Text theory is “less naturalistic and anthropocentric, and so more pious (and less impious), than the highly naturalistic and anthropocentric methodology of the eclectics.” In today’s quote, the late Theodore P. Letis answers … Continue reading
Forked Path In The Forest of New Testament Manuscripts
Maurice Robinson contrasts the Byzantine-priority (AKA Majority Text) approach to New Testament Textual Criticism, which he favors (and which in turn favors such versions as the King James, 21st Century King James, and New King James), to the dominant eclectic … Continue reading
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How Can A Gospel Presentation Be Wrong When It Feels So Right?
Will Metzger warns against utilizing a watered-down “feel good” gospel to make Christian faith seem more appealing to unbelievers. “God has a wonderful plan for your life!” and “Won’t you give Jesus a chance?” may feel good to say, but … Continue reading
Shrinks A Sign of Shrinking Piety?
Martin and Deidre Bobgan assert that the prudent course for the pious is to choose biblical counseling over either secular psychotherapy or the many biblical-secular/pious-impious hybridizations offered as “Christian” psychotherapy. Do you (like Pious Eye) think they’re right? Or do … Continue reading
The Impropriety, If Not Impiety, of Mysticism
Ayn Rand, atheist philosopher-novelist and widely-known proponent of a godless and (to my eye) Nietzschean version of capitalism, shows in her portrayal of character Peter Keating just what sort of impression frequent appeals to the “mysterious” and “ineffable” can make … Continue reading
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If It’s Nonsense, It’s Not Pious
W. Gary Crampton rejects the impious nonsense of those who think pious Christian faith includes belief that the logically paradoxical is true.Neither the numerologists, nor the poets, nor those who see acrostic codes in Scripture understand Scripture. God’s truth comes … Continue reading
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Pious or Impious? “None of the Above” Is Not An Option
Peter Kreeft, commenting on Pascal’s Wager, notes how inevitable death makes choice between Christian belief and unbelief unavoidable.We are “condemned to freedom” (to use Sartre’s formula). “There is no choice”, says Pascal; that is, we cannot choose whether or not … Continue reading
Justice? Yes. “Social Justice”? No.
Hayek, Friedrich A. “’Social’ or Distributive Justice.” Chapter 9 in Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pages … Continue reading →