Theologia

Theology as it pertains to grimy hands and toes-in-the-mud life.



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  • Only God Can

    Go out and open [blind] eyes. Don’t stop because you can’t do this. Of course you can’t. Only God can open the eyes of the blind (2 Cor. 4:6). But the fact that you can’t make electricity or create light never stops you from flipping light switches. The fact that you can’t create fire in…

  • Don’t Be Like Cain

    Cain didn’t kill Abel simply because Cain was evil. He killed him because the contrast between Abel’s goodness and Cain’s evil made Cain angry. It made him feel guilty. Abel didn’t have to say anything; Abel’s goodness was a constant reminder to Cain that he was evil. And instead of dealing with his own evil…

  • Evil is that which displeases God.

    If evil is that which displeases God, this it is not possible for Him to be evil. He is the standard, the ruler, the inch, the ethical metric system… This is wordplay, but it isn’t just wordplay. If there is an infinite creator God who spoke the universe into existence from nothing, then what standard…