by Jim Stitzel | Apr 4, 2006 | General
Heresy is a far broader definition than the one which I am about to apply. “freethoughtmom”:http://freethoughtmom.blogspot.com/ asked this question in “this discussion”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=317: bq. Who decides which teachings are...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 4, 2006 | General
bq. He could have created us as peers, with all His knowledge and wisdom, so we could relate to Him perfectly. But even such created beings would still be inferior because they would not be gods. “#”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=467 How can the created...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 4, 2006 | General
Why do we tend to focus more on the fact that others often hurt us with their words, however unintentionally, rather than on our own response to those people? How is that we forget that we are _not_ responsible for how others interact with us but rather we hold _full_...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 22, 2006 | Science
According to modern scientists, our universe began with a gigantic explosion, forcing a “traumatic growth spurt before it was a billionth of a billionth of a second old.” ((“Best ever map of the early universe...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 20, 2006 | General
One of my favorite non-fiction authors is the late Christian philosophers Francis Schaeffer. I think the main reason that he sits at the top of my non-fiction reading list is because of the fact that he provides ample ‘proof’ for why Christianity must be...