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  • Civil Rights Enacted By Whom? More Musings from Black Yellow Dogs written by Ben Kinchlow

    Perhaps one of the most important pieces of legislation to be signed in recent American history is the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Sad, really that it took so long for this nation to recognize at the national level that “created equal” entails all people regardless of their ethnic group. Even sadder is the fact…

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  • Worldview Authority, Indoctrination and the Implications of Deuteronomy 6

    Just a reminder: “A worldview is… ‘Our conception of the world around us, stemming from an authoritative source that we submit to, affecting all areas of activity in our life.’” Contained within this definition are two concepts, one stated and the other implied, that might cause a knee-jerk reaction against it. The first concept is…

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  • Why the Divergence When the Same Standard is Shared?

    “Your assumptions can’t be validated.  Not everyone at the founding of this nation had a biblical worldview, many popular men were at best deists; Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin are just a couple names that illustrate this point.”  That’s what the email said that I had been waiting for.  Those weren’t the exact words of…

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  • Clarifying Faith and Evidence Not Being Equal

    In my last post I spoke on the nature of “faith and evidence.” Faith is an a priori commitment that has a direct effect on how one views various forms of evidence. According to Scripture (cf. Heb 11.1-3) one’s faith is foundational to the way in which the interpretation of facts come. I am not…

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  • Perhaps you have heard some variation of the following argumentive statements: The Bible is not a science book. The Bible is not a history book. The Bible is not an ethics book. The Bible is not a marriage manual. The Bible is not a parental guide. The Bible is not this…or that…its just a spiritual…

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