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What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2224, 1st January, 2012
Like a serpent in a garden, John Fensel has posed an old question in new garb: “Do Moral Obligations really follow from God’s Existence?“ In 1504 words, his answer is “No.” Attempting to answer questions including, “What is obligation?” and “What is moral?”, he neglects the big question: “What is God?” The shorter Westminster Catechism replies, [...]
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God/god

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2034, 11th February, 2011
Some time ago I laid down the law with respect to the incorrect and silly system of quotation marks that is pervasive throughout American writing and results in oceans of ink being wasted. The thought police haven’t dragged me away yet, so I decided to up the ante and tackle the capitalization problems that deities [...]
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on that mennonite confession, article 1

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2354, 31st January, 2011
Article one is here. Thoughts on it below the jump. Related Posts:Augsburg Wednesday: Article 1, of GodWhat is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).Thoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”Liberalism as Denial — A Response to John FenselA Practical Program of Disenfranchisement: A 10-Step Plan to Save American Democracy by Dismantling It
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a rabbi taught me today

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1838, 27th May, 2010
that any lie one tells is a lie about God, because if God is the one who has willed the universe into being, any lie about anything in it is a lie about what God has done. Related Posts:What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).Didache Tuesday: chapter 2God/godon that mennonite confession, article 1belief [...]
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seeing vs. meeting with god

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1746, 3rd March, 2010
Read the delightful article by Daniel McClellan here, where he explains for us what grammatical and text-critical analysis of Hebrew and Greek phrases in Exodus can tell us about the way the revisers and translators viewed the relationship between lowly man and Almighty God. Related Posts:N. T. Wright: “Romans and the Theology of Paul”What is [...]
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what’s going on with GOD in genesis 6:5?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2155, 5th February, 2010
Genesis 6:5, KJV: 5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Look through the KJV for the word ‘God.’  You’ll notice that it’s almost always spelled ‘God’ with only one upper-case letter, except in the [...]
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textual corruption and 1 timothy 3:16

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0435, 29th December, 2009
Probably most of you are familiar with John 3:16, and probably a few of you with 2 Timothy 3:16. The first of these 3:16′s demonstrates the gift of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. The second demonstrates the gift of scripture given by God. But there’s another 3:16 I want to discuss today, and it is 1 Timothy [...]
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some thoughts on assumptions

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2303, 18th December, 2009
(An updated version of this concept may be found here) It seems as though everywhere I turn I find people speaking about how we “shouldn’t make assumptions.” And there is a certain validity to this, in that poorly structured assumptions can make a perfectly logical person produce false conclusions. But I think we can all [...]
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