The church doctrine of the Trinity says God is one essence existing as three co-equal and co-eternal Persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit. But the New Testament (NT) repeatedly describes Jesus as subordinate to God to Father, which seems to conflict with them being equal. Some scholars label this a paradox. Raymond E. Brown acknowledges that “even in the New Testament works that speak of Jesus as God, there are also passages that seem to militate against such a u … [Read more...]
Si Woo Kim Wins the 2017 Players Championship
May 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
South Korean Si Woo Kim won the Player's championship today at 21 years of age, the youngest to ever win it. Even though he missed ten greens today, he got it up-and-down all ten times to finish with a ten under par total 274 to win by three strokes over two second place finishers: Englishman Ian Poulter and South African Louis Oosterhuizen. Where were all the Americans? Kyle Stanley, of Gig Harbor, Washington, got back in the limelight since his winning the Phoenix Open in 2012 by tying … [Read more...]
500 Years Since Martin Luther Hatched His Protestant Plot with 95 Theses
May 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
This year will be the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. This Fall, it will be a major celebration in Europe and much of the western world. A guy named Martin Luther started this protest movement against the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Roman Empire that forever split the church. Yet Luther was a priest in this church.Martin Luther has been one of the world's most significant figures. He was born in 1483 in Eisleben, Saxony, in what is now Germany. Martin came from a … [Read more...]
Palestinians Must Find Another Two-State Solution
May 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
For several decades, Palestinians have been advocating a two-state solution to their conflict with the State of Israel. It is that a Palestinian state be established in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But that is two territories separated by about twenty miles. Thus, to accomplish that solution, those two pieces real estate would have to be connected with a corridor enabling Palestinians to easily travel from one region of their state to the other. Many Palestinian authorities and other have … [Read more...]
Third Round of The Players Championship–2017
May 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The Players Championship is held every year at the Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It is owned by the PGA Tour and the home of the PGA Tour headquarters. The Players, as they now often call it, has pretty much always been recognized as the unofficial fifth major championship in professional golf. Since all of the best professional golfers in the world compete in The Players, this tournament probably always has a slightly stronger field than any of the four majors. … [Read more...]
Is Jesus God in the Gospel of John?
May 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Nearly all Christians have believed Jesus is God. Scholars call them “traditionalists.” And most scholars claim that the foremost New Testament (NT) book that identifies Jesus as God is the Gospel of John. It contains the two most formidable NT texts that have been interpreted as declaring that Jesus is God. They are John 1.1 and 20.28.Even liberal and historical-critical NT scholars, such as those of the Jesus Seminar, assert that the Gospel of John presents Jesus as God. Since the synoptic … [Read more...]
Did President Trump Commit Bribery?
May 12, 2017 by Leave a Comment
NBC News broadcaster Lester Holt interviewed President Trump Wednesday, and it was televised. Trump said of his firing of FBI Director James Comey, "And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.’ It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.” Sounds like a line out of a Mafia mobster flick.Trump has been calling that investigation a "witchhunt" and a "hoax." S … [Read more...]
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