by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 18, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. 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...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 13, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
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...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 6, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
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...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 2, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle explain how and why Scripture must take precedence over (theories about) nature in Christian scientific work….since the Bible has never been wrong about anything, and since it is the very Word of the One who knows everything, we must...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 28, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Arthur T. Pierson describes how the duties of Christian piety, though at first burdensome, in the end bring delight, as wings empower flight. We are reminded once more of...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 23, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Image courtesy Han Braxmeier (released to public domain).Nancy M. Darrall, in her contribution to In Six Days, illustrates how random variation without intelligence-originated new information cannot yield evolution.DNA…is analogous to…paper and...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 12, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Edward F. Hills, in his Believing Bible Study, notes how Christian confidence should be grounded in faith, not faith grounded in Christian confidence.For many years the thinking of conservative Christians has been a house divided against itself, orthodox in some...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 5, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Image courtesy ArmchairBuilder.com (Creative Commons license). Greg L. Bahnsen, in his Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, offers insight on the properly pious Christian approach to apologetics.In Scripture, God requires Christian believers to subject...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 27, 2011 | Annotated Quotations
Norman Geisler and Frank Turek observe an inconsistency in U.S. lawmaking. On the one hand, use of government force to discourage smoking is deemed appropriate because studies find that smokers die, on average, seven years sooner than non-smokers. On the other hand,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 26, 2009 | Annotated Quotations
Image: photo of moss on a rock in Yosemite, California, by Allan Chen, used under a Creative Commons (CC BY-ND 2.0) license. In the 1984 Baker edition of The Biblical Basis For Modern Science, author Henry M. Morris refutes the argument that earth’s being an...