I've always loved XKCD. Today he made a text criticism joke! https://xkcd.com/2168/…
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Luke van der Hoeven
> My fear was now of another kind. I felt sure that the creature was what we call “good,” but I wasn’t sure whether I liked “goodness” so much as I had supposed. This is a very terrible experience. As long as what you are afraid of is something…
> It is a proper and excellent thing for infinite glory to shine forth; and for the same reason, it is proper that the shining forth of God’s glory should be complete; that is, that all parts of his glory should shine forth, that every beauty should be proportionably…
This is more of a personal, confessional post. I used to be addicted to cycling. I spent a good 10-12 hours a week on a bike, training, working hard, enjoying the world "behind bars". I would get up at 4:30 in the morning to train, I would…
Keeping It Simple I've tried a dozen times to keep up with my writing while at the same time publishing posts in a way that I have more control over (as in, not Facebook or Medium). But I think at this point in my life, I just need…
Most people believe God is solely a blessing-giver, that he only intends or creates what is good. But the Bible describes God many times as both one who creates or intends blessings and curses. * Gen. 50:15-20 * Deut. 30:11-20 * Job 1:20-22, 2:9-10 * Rom. 5:12-14, 11:32…
> ...when we're arguing for a certain political action course we must not so invest our energy, our heat, our passion into such matters in order to preserve our understanding of what the republic should be that we give the impression that the well-being of the republic is…
> The whole course of history is represented as the development of the plan and purposes of God; and yet human history is little else than the history of sin. No one can read the simple narrative concerning Joseph, as given in the book of Genesis, without seeing that everything…