Doing good cannot be an optional extra for Christians, but must be at the core of our existence.
I get tons and tons and tons of trash talk from atheists who insist that the only way the Bible is “true” is if it is literally, historically and scientifically accurate. This is understandable given our indoctrination into truth grounded in the availability of things like camcorders. The ancients had no such luxury and they knew it.
Because I love Jesus.
That is the only real answer. The End…and The Beginning as well. Alpha and Omega.
Awesome, awesome post by Justin Lee. No quotes. Go to the site and read.
I decided to write about this because it makes Twitter much less of a burden. It’s too imprecise to express real ideas on a micro-blogging service more amenable to smart ass comments than substance, so I do so here.
Jon Meachem in the NY Times breaks it down: Then, significantly, MacCulloch adds, “I live with the puzzle of wondering how something so apparently crazy can be so captivating to millions of other members of my species.” That puzzle confronts anyone who approaches Christianity with a measure of detachment. The faith, MacCulloch notes, is “a …
