Rick Beckman

Tag: Christianity

  • Keeping It Simple: Whatever Happened to the Churches?

    Keeping It Simple: Whatever Happened to the Churches?

    The earliest Christians met in beautiful simplicity, filled with love and charity. What happened?

  • The James Webb Space Telescope Images and the Mocking of Christians by Atheists

    The James Webb Space Telescope Images and the Mocking of Christians by Atheists

    The James Webb Space Telescope's first images were certainly awe-inspiring, but some people have taken them as an opportunity to mock those with a different worldview from them. Let's put a stop to that behavior.

  • Missing the Point

    Missing the Point

    Con­tent warn­ing: This post con­tains a pho­to­graph from a West­boro Bap­tist protest which is used as an exam­ple of what not to do. It con­tains lan­guage which is offensive. Over a decade ago, while I yet called myself a Chris­t­ian, I was onto some­thing good: a real­iza­tion that homo­pho­bic protests and oth­er­wise aggres­sive “evan­ge­lism” were […]

  • A Tale of Two Worldviews

    A Tale of Two Worldviews

    Chris­tian­i­ty is fas­ci­nat­ing. The sto­ries of the Bible, the mir­a­cles and teach­ings described through­out? It’s end­less­ly curi­ous, with more nuance than it is often giv­en cred­it for, par­tic­u­lar­ly among my fel­low unbelievers. Far too often, unbe­liev­ers pick up on car­i­ca­tures of Chris­tian­i­ty — shal­low exag­ger­a­tions or dis­tor­tions that can be eas­i­ly mocked in text­book exam­ples […]

  • Bible Verse that Says God Will Never Give Us More Than We Can Handle

    Bible Verse that Says God Will Never Give Us More Than We Can Handle

    In responding to a user's search, I look to the Bible to determine whether God will ever give us more than we can handle.

  • Christianity Needs a Preacher

    I once want­ed to become a preacher. I believed so fer­vent­ly in the Bible that the thought could­n’t escape me that the more I learned about it, the more I should share what I learn with oth­ers. It felt only nat­ur­al. (Or super­nat­ur­al, as it were.) My church gave me a few oppor­tu­ni­ties to preach, and […]

  • There and Back Again

    I was once a fervent Christian til a moral crisis robbed me of my faith; years have passed, but I realize now that in my unbelief, God was always faithful, waiting patiently for me to return.

  • KJV 1611 vs. KJV 1769: The KJV-onlyist’s Looming Dilemma

    KJV 1611 vs. KJV 1769: The KJV-onlyist’s Looming Dilemma

    “The only changes made since the 1611 trans­la­tion of the KJV until now have been changes of spelling or print­ing only.” I’ve heard this often, usu­al­ly from well-mean­ing peo­ple who wish to defend the King James Ver­sion’s pedi­gree as a “per­fect” trans­la­tion of the Bible. That state­ment, how­ev­er, is incor­rect; it is unfit for rep­e­ti­tion by […]

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