Here is a simple case for the existence of God that I offer as fodder for thought:
1. Something is comprised of anything
2. Nothing is the absence of anything
3. Something is better than nothing
4. Naturalists (and therefore athiests) hold that the initial and terminal states of the universe is nothingness
5. Creationists (and therefore thiests) hold that the universe was created by God
6. God is something
7. Something is better than nothing
Your thoughts?
Numbers 24-25; Proverb 17; Ephesians 5-6
Highlights – Numbers 24:13; Proverb 17:7; 17:28; Ephesians 5:9; 5:15; 5:17
At first when I was reading through Numbers I was not entirely sure what I was supposes to be getting out of this reading. Two chapters of prophecy and smiting – but as I continued reading the rest of the scriptures, a common thread became clear. I have been a fool insomuch as I let my gifting in the area of speeking well define way to much of who I am.
Proverbs 17:28 (NASB) – “Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.”
When I was an undergraduate at The Beach, I had a wonderful opportunity to write extensively about the discourse and rhetoric used by Y2K extremists in and around 1999. The crux of my paper was two fold, first American discourse is rooted in the apocoplypse and second consipiracy theory rhetoric surrounding the Y2K scare was no different and therefore not rooted in fact but in root metaphore. That is, the Y2K scare existed not because there was any real inherent issue, but America needed some sort of “impending doom” to focus on.