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Continue reading →: Was the Serpent Actually Telling the Truth?I’ve come across this argument from Bible skeptics and critics more times than I can remember: the story of Adam and Eve actually shows the serpent telling the truth and God lying. At first, that sounds like a serious problem. God tells Adam that if he eats from the tree…
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Continue reading →: Does God’s Omniscience Contradict Free Will?Atheists I have encountered often insist God’s omniscience and human free will are contradictory: if God already knows what I will choose, how can I genuinely be free to choose otherwise? But this assumes that God’s knowledge causes or determines my choice. It does not. God’s knowledge of your choice…
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Continue reading →: Between Order and Chaos: Consciousness, AI and CreationBetween Order and Chaos I have been interested in complexity theory and chaos mathematics for a long time. One of the things I find fascinating about complex systems is that they often behave in ways that cannot be understood simply by looking at their individual parts. A brain is made…
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Continue reading →: Was the Trinity invented at Nicaea?One of the common arguments I hear against the Trinity is that it was invented at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. There is a small grain of truth in this, but only if we are careful about what we mean by “invented”. The doctrine of the Trinity did…
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Continue reading →: Relational Faith vs Propositional Faith: Believing or Following?I’ve been thinking about why I tend to talk about Christian faith in such strongly relational terms. I suspect it has something to do with where I locate the centre of faith. For me, faith is ultimately about a person: Jesus. It is about trusting him, giving myself to him,…
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Continue reading →: AI, Human Agency, and the Future of Local CommunityI’ve been thinking about the AI arms race and the fears that come with it. There are the obvious concerns about AI becoming uncontrollable and potentially catastrophic, but there is another concern that I think gets less attention: what happens to human agency when enormous technological and economic power becomes…
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Continue reading →: Why I Reject Both Calvinism and Open TheismI reject both Calvinism and Open Theism because I think both begin with an assumption about God’s relationship with time that I don’t share. I affirm the classical Christian understanding that God is omniscient, eternal and sovereign, and I also believe that human beings make genuinely free choices. I don’t…
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Continue reading →: Does 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 Teach a Pre-Tribulation Rapture or the Second Coming?When Christians talk about the “rapture,” 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 is usually one of the first passages that comes up. Paul says that Christ will descend from heaven, the dead in Christ will rise, and believers who are still alive will be “caught up” to meet the Lord in the air.…
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Continue reading →: THE CONVERGENCE OF FRINGE EXTREMISM – SOVEREIGN PSEUDOLAW AND RELIGIOUS MANDATES IN REGIONAL AUSTRALIABy Andrew Park The study of political radicalisation in modern Australia often suffers from a profound geographical and cultural disconnect. When urban academics and mainstream media outlets attempt to map the rise of anti-government movements, they routinely focus on visible, public-facing entry points. A recent feature in The Chronicle by…
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Continue reading →: Why Do American Evangelicals Keep Tripping Up on the Trinity?This morning I was reading about William Lane Craig’s rejection of the eternal begottenness of the Son. Dwelling on this, I was reminded of another recent controversy within American Evangelicalism: Eternal Functional Subordination. They represent very different conclusions, but both seem to rebalance the relationship between the immanent Trinity—who Father,…
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