I am a student at Trinity College of Florida, working on a degree in Youth Ministry. I love debating politics, literature, theology, and anything else I know anything about.
A few quotes sum me up pretty well:
"Sometimes things don't happen quite the way you
+ more bio informationVery simply put, a Christian cannot lose his/her salvation after they have obtained it. Whenever you hear of someone falling away from the faith, I guarantee you that they never had it to begin with, no matter what appearances say. Scripture is rife with verses that say, to use a cliche, "once saved, always saved". To begin,...
There is much confusion today about the nature of the Trinity and exactly what it is among both the churched and the unchurched. Those in the church have come up with many analogies to try to explain the Trinity (i.e. water being a liquid, solid, and gas) but all these fall short of truly explaining the Trinity. And the conf...
Whether or not everything contained within its pages is correct and in spite of personal opinion, no one can deny that Plato's Republic is one of the most influential books of philosophy in the western world. The Republic presents theories of knowledge, ethics, and governance in a unified picture of the ideal state. The form...
Many people have different ideas of what rest is like, for some people rest is reading a good book, for others it is watching a football game on Sunday afternoons, for others it is sleeping in on Saturday mornings. The author of Hebrews devotes a solid portion of his epistle to the idea of rest and how it relates to believin...
For centuries now people have disputed the authorship of the Bible, nearly from cover to cover, from Old Testament to New Testament, from Moses to Paul. Concerning the authorship of the New Testament, a few of the Pauline Epistles are undisputed; among these are Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1...
Throughout history, mankind has searched for meaning in life and how it can be obtained. Achilleus in Homer's epic poem The Iliad inadvertently comes to understand several core values that he did not set out to discover. Achilleus learns how to have compassion on another human being, he learns that his anger can have undesir...
Phillip Smyer
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