Category Archives: Religion

Just a point to ponder. A rather curious verse appears in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (7:25). Paul says: What follows is not from God. It is my own opinion. Now if the Bible is indeed INERRANT then Paul … Continue reading →

Personally, I’ve always thought that it was likely that there was life elsewhere. If God created the universe and life in specific, it would seem strange to me to make such a BIG universe to be populated only in one … Continue reading →

The ancient Hebrew, confronted with the fact that Sodom was destroyed (earthquake and fire), wondered “what did those people do to be punished like that?” As Beduins, they would consider being inhospitable to a stranger a very bad thing. And … Continue reading →

Let me try to draw an analogy between scriptural interpretation and mathematics (since that is where my training lies). The mathematics that we are most familiar with (that of the Real Numbers) relies on 13 postulates of the Complete Ordered … Continue reading →

I think that St. Paul understood that following laws for their own sake is anathema for the Christian, and so he mentions over and over again that much of the external lawkeeping is only valuable so as not to harm … Continue reading →