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1.	November 04, 2006 - Your Mom
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2.	February 28, 2006 - Penal Substitutionary Atonement and the Nature of Forgiveness
	Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. (Colossians 3:13) In the book of Colossians, Paul instructs the believers that they should "forgive" each other "as the Lord" has forgiven them... [more]
3.	May 17, 2006 - The Problem with Atonement Metaphors
	As I was making my arduous drive home the other day, I was listening to our local feed of Air1, the "positive alternative." Often, Air1 has various Christian speakers, leaders, and artists record short, 30-second lessons in Christian theology and biblical interpretation. More often tha... [more]
4.	February 26, 2006 - 42 Theses Contra Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory
	1. PSA theory asserts that sin incurs a "penalty." 2. This penalty is based upon God's decision concerning sin. 3. God's decision in this matter is free and in accordance with God's will, as there is no force which compels God to choose or act in one way or the other... [more]
5.	March 16, 2006 - Death, Darwin and Penal Substitution
	For all of its philosophical machinations, Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory (PSA) can be reduced to a very simple syllogism. A. The "penalty" of sin is death. B. Humanity has sinned. C. Therefore, humanity deserves to and must die. D. Christ has paid the &quo... [more]
6.	June 17, 2007 - Justice So-Called, Reconciliation and the Execution of a Dictator
	My thinking has been engaged recently by a series of posts made by mofast entitled "The Myth of the Redemptive Bauer." As fellow blog-o-addicts might be aware, there was previously a series of posts (the o... [more]
7.	June 17, 2007 - Good Friday?
	The words, "Good Friday" seem like somewhat of a misnomer. What is good, after all, about the brutal execution of Jesus of Nazareth? In a world in which violence dominates all media and suffuses the understanding which we have of our world, how can there be anything "good" ... [more]
8.	June 17, 2007 - The Limitation of Limited Atonement
	Recently, the theological blog-o-sphere has been in an uproar over comments made by Liberty University's Jerry Falwell wherein he suggested that Limited Atonement theory (held by many within the Reformed camp) is a heterodox theological perspective. I will not attempt to defend Falw... [more]
9.	April 26, 2007 - Penal Substitutionary Atonement Theory, Sans Atonement
	Several weeks ago, I posted some reflections on the meaning of Good Friday. In this post, I suggested that the "goodness" of Christ's death (which is commemorated on this day) is not located within the violence of the cross, but rather in the ultimate victory which Christ acheived... [more]
10.	June 17, 2007 - Some Brief Thoughts on Limited Atonement
	A few weeks ago, I posted a discussion concerning the limitations of Penal Substitutionary Atonement theology, arguing that this theological perspective ultimately fails to attain to a philosophically meaningful conception of atonement i... [more]
11.	June 28, 2007 - Towards a Pauline Atonement Theology
	As anyone who knows me or reads my blog regularly will realize, I am quite fond of atonement theology. Besides the numerous posts that I have made concerning it, I have also done a significant amount of study--both personal and academic--in relation to this matter of Christian theology. As the part... [more]
12.	September 10, 2007 - Peacocke Monday - The Start of Something New
	Over the next few weeks (hopefully not too many of them!), I will be making my way through Arthur Peacocke's Theology for a Scientific Age: Being and Becoming -- Natural, Diving and Human. During this time, I hope to leave some brief thoughts on Peacocke's conclusions, commen... [more]
13.	September 12, 2007 - Peacocke Wednesday - Interconnected
	In the first chapter, "What is There," Peacocke examines the shift in metaphorical language about the nature of reality that has been necessitated by advances in understanding of the physical universe, most particularly the insights gleaned from quantum mechanics. While humans tend ... [more]
14.	October 02, 2007 - Peacocke Tuesday - Randomness and Causality
	Over the last week, I have rolled through several chapters of Peacocke's book, "Theology for a Scientific Age," and I will not spend time going over the finer details of each discussion. I simply wish to note one of the issues that stood out most to me. In a sort of c... [more]
15.	October 15, 2007 - Making All Things New
	And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." In an age in which global warming, climate change and concerns about the viability of our planet's environment are seemingly on the forefront of everyone's mind, it is often difficult to find pea... [more]
16.	December 28, 2007 - Two Levels of Creation...?
	Over the last several weeks, loyal readers of this blog (if any remain...) will note that the focus of the majority of my posts have centered around web application coding techniques. While part of the reason for this is that I have been improving exponentially in my coding abilities over the... [more]
17.	February 04, 2008 - A Call for Discussion
	Regular readers of this blog will note that I have devoted a number of posts to providing an apologetic for the compatibility of the theory of evolution, big bang cosmology and Christian theology. In pursuing these ideas, my intention has not been to suggest that these naturalistic theor... [more]
18.	May 15, 2008 - My Life in Six Words...
	Despite rumors to the contrary , my "theological blog" is not dead, at least not quite. In fact, I've got a post regarding the doctrine of atonement in I Peter that will be coming quite soon (I hope!), so watch for that. ... [more]
19.	August 11, 2008 - The Diminution of God's Glory...Possible?
	Wow. I haven't posted here since the middle of May. Well, I've been busy...and whatnot. For the last several months, I've been extremely busy with my company, Singularity Concepts. I've launched several websites and currently have some "... [more]
20.	October 05, 2009 - St. John of the Cross: The Danger of Experiential Worship
	I'm currently reading through St. John of the Cross' "The Dark Night of the Soul." In this short book, the 16th century mystic expounds upon his "Songs" which deal with the "dark night of the soul," the period of purgation through which all followers of Christ ... [more]

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Welcome to my blog. I am often asked what "Exist/Dissolve" means. Well, that is certainly a good question, and I am currently in the process of discovering the answer myself. Prima facie, it strikes me as encapsulating the existensial crisis that is our lives as finite, contingent beings. For a brief moment, we exist, and the next we dissolve into the nothingness of non-existence. From a theological perspective, it is, for me, a sort of ad hoc apologetic for resurrection - i.e., if to exist/dissolve is the human dilemma, there is nothing inherent to the person that guarantees existence, either now or "after" death. Therefore, resurrection is at the same time both the height of absurdity (for it is a notion entirely alien to the paradigm of existence to which we are naturally enculturated) and the only hope for the human to persevere beyond the pale of death.