Hypocrites & Communion
A “hypocrite” is someone who pretends to be something he is not. The Greek derivation of the word confirms this idea: one who is on the stage, an actor. A current rough equivalent is “poser”. We frown on hypocrisy because it is a kind of dishonesty. When you...
Predestination
Sometimes it seems that Calvinists confuse Calvinism with fatalism. Fatalism has its roots in Greek mythology. The Greeks had three goddesses, the Fates, who determined human destinies. Clotho spun the thread of fate; Lachesis measured the length of the thread; and...
Purpose for Eternal Torment
Scared Straight Is there a possible purpose served by everlasting torment? Some argue that the threat of everlasting torment drives people to Jesus, but there’s a logical flaw to this argument. It may be that some people who’ve experienced torture, or some people with...
Ruinous Modesty
“Now he could see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears that not only Hitler, not only Heydrich nor the ‘sphinx’ Müller, not just the S.S. or the Party, but the elite of the good old Civil Service were vying and fighting with each other for the honor of taking the lead in these ‘bloody’ matters. ‘At that moment, I sensed a kind of Pontius Pilate feeling, for I felt free of all guilt’. Who was he to judge? Who was he ‘to have his own thoughts in this matter?” Well, he was neither the first nor the last to be ruined by modesty.” – Hannah Arendt (quoting and speaking of Adolf Eichmann)
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