A pastor tries to help me

I was guest blogger for the Off The Map eBay Atheist blog April 25-27. I posted this piece of writing as one of my blog entries. If you follow the link you can read how people responded to it. Two days ago I ran into a friend and was telling her how Off-The-Map wants to help Christians be normal. She said with a quizzical look [more]

 
My Story: The Questions Which Didn't Have The Right Answer

This is a ‘work-in-progress’; it is my attempt to share some of the experiences and thought processes which have taken me away from being a committed, Bible-believing Christian. I became a Christian in 1984. I began to have serious doubts around 2001 which eventually led me to withdraw from my involvement in church and Bible studies in 2005. I have wanted to write about this [more]

 
Is the Bible the Word of God?

This was originally written as Question 10 of My Story: The Questions Which Didn’t Have The Right Answer. Since it’s long, I’ll add subheadings to break it up. First, some background to explain how I came to believe the Bible was the Word of God, how I maintained that belief and all it meant to me in a personal as well as an intellectual sense.

 
The Doctrine of Hell

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Purpose: I wrote this to raise the questions: Who did Jesus believe was going to hell and does that match who Christians today say will go to hell? I think it would be fair to say the doctrine of hell is the most [more]

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