Christianity's Dangerous Idea

This is a fantastic new book by alister mcgrath. The first part of the book is a must for every christian that wants a well-detailed and research oriented snapshot into Christianity's hsitory. Fantastic work! The chapter on the rise of pentacostialism is one of the best in the whole book. Defintely check this work out!

the spiritual being

Recently, I have been doing some writing and research for my never-ending book! An idea that I have been researching recently is the idea that Christians today live improperly and show no sign of christlikeness (as the word c”christian” truely means) because we don’t have a correct understand of who we are as people.

The body is composed of three parts: body, soul and spirit (I Thess. 5:23). It is apparent through the New testament that these different parts have different functions. As christians, if we don’t have a proper understanding of each individual part, we will be living the christian life improperly.

I was talking with a friend of my a few days ago and he challenged my belief on this topic (which I always accept!). My theory largly comes from the Bible and the writings of Watchman Nee in his work, “The spiritual Man.” The idea is that humans “spirit” is the only part that can communicate with God. Our body and our sould do not communicate with God, they are just mediums that our Spirit Uses. When we become christians are spirit is awakened and regenerated into the form that God originally intended for it to be. The spirit is our inner man and the soul and body are our outward man. The soul (which is where our mind and personality are comprised) is the bridge between our spirit and our body. Moreover, each part of our spiritual being has specific functions and whne those functions are misused and imporperly used we fail to communicate with God effectively.

So my friend’s argument is that is not found in scripture and that we can communicate with God through the Bible. I have no doubt that that is true however, if I were to pray out of my flesh or out of my soul, Im not going to get a response because my spirit is what talks to God because that is what it is created for. One cannot otherwise explain why our spirit exists within us?! for example, if i pray that my friend is rid of his cancer because i want it to be that way because i hate to see him in pain. this is a selfish fleshly prayer. this isn’t a prayer out of my spirit. Our spirit talks with God’s spirit (1 cor 2) and so those are my ideas. feel free to respond and give me your thoughts.

Xavier

divorce and remarriage

I have been contemplating this topic for a very long time and since my parents recently got seperated and plan on getting divorced (which I never thought would happen). I want to know some ideas and thoughts on this topic. I am open to every idea....however I will put my research and thoughts on here as soon as see enough replies so reply people!

first blog

so....... i finally got a blog here. I had and still have other blogs at other websites but hopefully I can keep up with this one. I would like to put my surveys and excepts from my book as welll in the hopes of getting helpful feedback. so please read and respond!