Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
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The Denominational Distinctives III: Further High Church Distinctives
This essay is part of a series: The Denominational Distinctives Part ICatholic, Orthodox, & Protestant Part IIThe High Church Distinctives Part IIIFurther High Church Distinctives In Part I, I discussed those questions that distinguished Catholicism and Orthodoxy, on the one hand, from all of Protestantism, on the other. In Part II, I began to discuss…
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The Denominational Distinctives II: The High Church Distinctives
This essay is part of a series: The Denominational Distinctives Part ICatholic, Orthodox, & Protestant Part IIThe High Church Distinctives Part IIIFurther High Church Distinctives This is the second set of questions and answers about the distinctive doctrines of the Christian denominations. My aim in this series is to help me to decide on my…
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Zobot: A Third Kind of Self-Sustaining Being
Philosophy and theology posit two kinds of self-sustaining beings: God, who is eternally self-sustaining, depending on nothing outside himself for his being; and living beings or organisms, consisting of many interoperative systems that function to sustain the whole, and which give rise to rough copies of themselves. Advances in robotics and AI now make feasible…
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The Denominational Distinctives I: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant
This essay is part of a series: The Denominational Distinctives Part ICatholic, Orthodox, & Protestant Part IIThe High Church Distinctives Part IIIFurther High Church Distinctives In a previous post on LarrySanger.org, I listed some “questions that distinguish the denominations.” More precisely, I attempted to list, tentatively, questions that, taken together, are minimally adequate to distinguish…
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Does God expect the impossible of us?
A student asked some advice, so I replied. The question and the answer are both very general, so in case this helps anyone: Why does the Christian conception of God impose divine standards of morality upon humanity, given our inherent fallibility? Furthermore, considering the theological premise that all individuals have sinned, how can one reconcile…
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Brief Notes on the Gospel
Is “believe that Jesus died for your sins” the whole Gospel? What if the Bible says otherwise—and what if we’ve missed the most ancient part?
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A Sketch of My Theological Method
While thinking about a certain book on the history of religious ideas, I considered how my own approach to theology might fit into that enormous history. This led me to the following summary statement, for what it is worth, which I submit for your perusal. I am, roughly speaking, a follower of Thomas Reid’s method…
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The Bible and the Fathers on the Divinity of Jesus Christ
Among those who have responded to my testimony, a few Unitarians have come out of the woodwork, warning me sternly that there is one God. With this, I agree, of course. But they add that Jesus is not God. With this, I disagree. 1. Many Bible passages suggest that Jesus is not merely of God…
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A Response to My New Brothers and Sisters
My conversion story weighs in at 14,000 words, and this follow-up is another 5,000. The outpouring of response has been so great that I felt I owed some further answers to all these lovely well-wishers, who are, after all, now my brothers and sisters in the family of God. Since I posted the essay, less…
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The questions that distinguish the denominations
I want to ask my generous and well-informed Christian readership here for their feedback on a list of questions. The task is fairly straightforward to state, not maybe not easy to execute: Formulate a list of questions that is minimally sufficient to investigate where one “fits” within the broad denominational landscape. There are other differences,…
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/larrysanger- An open reply to Jimmy Wales. He's wrong: Grokipedia won't necessarily be biased; and, obviously, the Trump article is badly biased. First of a series of replies to Jimmy's remarks in this Reason exposé: https://reason.com/video/2026/02/23/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]