The Wandering Heretic

To continue my series on baptism, I am going to expand on our citizenship as part of Jesus. Scripture does make Jesus a symbol for the Land promised by God to His people; or the reverse, to be more accurate. However, the symbol does not stop there. Our citizenship in “Jesusland” is [...]

Alwyn Lau has used QuizFarm to create a Divine Foreknowlege quiz. I took the quiz, expecting to be found a Calvinist of some sort. Instead, I came up as a Molinist. So just like the Eschatology Quiz I took, I have been labeled something I have never heard of before. The [...]

I took the Eschatology Quiz here. The results are below.
You scored as Preterist, You take the historical setting of the Bible very seriously, and believe that passages like Daniel 7 and Mark 13 were speaking about their own day rather than the End of Time, though there will still be a time when Jesus is [...]

In my posts in this series, I have made the rather controversial point that baptism should only be done for entire families and at the time of conversion of the head of that family. Subsequently born children do not need to be baptized, either as infants or adults. To accord with this pattern—the [...]

I recognize that the origin of Labor Day in the United States has more to do with the legitimization of the Labor Unions and not the value of labor in general. However, the two are not unrelated. At the time of the unions, the vast majority of the public was made up of [...]

In my last post discussed the theology of "the progressive Lordship of Christ."  Instead of a theology where Christ becomes Lord over more and more of your life (and therefore the world) I preferred a doctrine of the present and fixed Lordship of Christ.  In that post I noted that Jesus is fully Lord now, [...]

I had a rather interesting discussion with my wife a few months ago.  The topic had to do with my opinion of my father's eulogy.  I noted that I thought it was okay, but then started to lament the direct and almost exclusive association the modern church has made between the Gospel and personal salvation.  [...]

When Taylor Hicks won the American Idol contest this year, they had him unveil his single, "Do I Make You Proud."  Despite being a really marginally interesting song, Taylor's popularity and talent took it to the top of the charts.  Yet it still remains a mediocre tune, so there must be some fundamental urge to [...]

A few posts ago I discussed the current disparity in Christian views about the afterlife. I used an old episode of Kung Fu (The Soul is the Warrior) to illustrate the extreme ends of the opinions held.  I chose two characters in the episode who epitomized the extremes: Caine, who represented the eternal continuance [...]

Sheriff Thoms: I've seen death piled around me until the air couldn't gather.  I'm afraid of it.  Smoked dry waiting for it.  Gone past my luck.  Ed Rankin's gone through it like I have but fear has never touched that man being Indian.  They believing that life runs flat like a table and death [...]