Dignoscentia

Just watched a great video today, which compares evolution and creation cogently and truthfully. I invite all of you to watch it as well, because it helps dispel many of the falsehoods floating around nowadays. Please, take some time and get the truth on evolution and creation.

This wonderful article, written by Gary Swanson, shows how superhero stories like Hercules or Superman borrow from the real life story of Jesus in order to appeal to our need for salvation and for God. After you read the article, I know you too will realize, as some thinkers have said, that “the universal human [...]

There are three things that I notice right away when reading this psalm:

The most obvious is the pain one feels when a “friend” betrays you,
David wasn’t as brave as people have come to believe, and
A day is described as such: “evening, morning, noon.”

I don’t want to beat the first point to death. If we all [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve stumbled upon something the likes of The Da Vinci Code. The historical and religious inaccuracies portrayed in it, as well as the bad writing, make me cringe. Thankfully, there are people in the know who have taken the time to put together resources that will show us the truth. [...]

This psalm can be interpreted both historically, in the context of David’s experience with Doeg the Edomite - the “wicked” person referred to in this psalm - and prophetically, as the two experiences to be had by those who “would not place [their] reliance on God,” and those who “put [their] trust in God’s faithful [...]

This psalm introduces two themes, one of which is already well known to most people. It is this: “… when he dies, he will take nothing with him, his wealth will not go down with him.” (verse 17) The second, stated in both verses 12 and 20, is this: “In prosperity people lose their good [...]

At first sight, this psalm sings the praises of Mount Zion and the old, powerful Jerusalem, in particular of God’s protection and blessing upon the city. And I don’t think it’s a mistake to interpret it that way.
Yet there is another way in which one could look at this psalm. Like in Psalm 46, there [...]