Read the Bible in 2022, A Resource

In The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World, William A. Dembski writes: “Creation is the highest act of giving. In creation, a creator—whether divine, human or otherwise—gives oneself unreservedly in self-revelation” (98-99). A bit later he adds, “The impulse to create and give oneself in…

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Early in Book 2 of The Confessions, Augustine reflects on the sinfulness of his past life and writes, “I was decomposing before your eyes while in men’s eyes I was pleasing myself and trying to please them” (Bk. 2:1,1 Garry Wills translation). Augustine has in mind here the effect of…

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