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The Biblical Testing Method
Posted on October 21, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
Christianity is unique from every other religion in its ability to rest peripheral and core theology on vast amounts of history and science. It possesses the only set of texts that obligate us to examine everything...
New post on the remarkable intersection of modern science and Christian faith:
The Entire Universe Revolves Around Humanity
Posted on October 7, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
One of the most common arguments Christians run into from atheist or agnostic skeptics is what I would call “the...
New Post:
The Thin Line Between Global Collapse and Faith
Posted on October 3, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
I am pleased to present my first guest post here on Picturing Christ – an article by reader “JT”. His article focuses on one of the most basic questions that inspired me to start...
What Happened to the Holy Spirit?
Posted on September 25, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
It seems that we often hear Christians talking about God the Father or Jesus Christ, the Son of God, but we hear very little about the third person of the Trinity – the Holy Spirit. We almost get the sense...
How Doom & Gloom Disappeared with the Protoevangelium
Posted on September 10, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
Anyone who is familiar with my writing at The Automatic Earth will know that I am no stranger to uber-doom and uber-gloom. The crises we humans face as a species are unprecedented in...
The True Power of Pictures
Posted on September 11, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
Ecclesiastes 3
10I have seen the task, which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied in it.
11He has made every thing beautiful in its time: also he has put eternity in men’s hearts, so that no man...
A Few Thoughts on the Jews and Anti-Semitism
Posted on September 14, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
You would think that it goes without saying we should be respectful to all races of people, yet I have recently noticed a distinct sense of antagonism that many people harbor towards the...
The Devil’s Scapegoat
Posted on September 14, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
Perhaps the most enigmatic and powerful words spoken by Jesus Christ during His lifetime on Earth were the following ones on the Cross, right before His death – “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me” (Mark 15:34)...
Finding a Safe Habitation for the Soul
Posted on September 17, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
That Man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental...
Picturing our Father of Faith
Posted on September 19, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
I’d like to spend some time today talking about what is arguably the most remarkable picture of Christ that we find in all of the Bible (and that’s saying something). This picture also happens to involve an...
How the Bible Would Solve the World’s Problems
Posted on September 21, 2012 by Brother of Sorrow
People in modern cultures like to separate religion and spirituality from other areas of their lives, personal and professional. That is considered the appropriate thing to do, and in some...