The great evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould told us that we ought to keep science and religion completely separate. He called them Non-Overlapping Magisteria, or NOMA. His proposition is simply that the two represent two separate domains of “teaching authority” or magisteria. He says, The net of science covers the empirical universe: what is it
Champions of Reformation During my days at the University of Ghana, I became the executive secretary of the Adventist student fellowship on campus. The doctrines and details of Adventism were rather new to me—not so much the Sabbath, although I had only recently grasped the biblical foundations of that doctrine. Rather, the greatest new realization
"When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor… Then come and follow me.” (Luke 18:22) Some time ago in a theology class I was told that a certain Peter Waldo had grossly and foolishly misinterpreted Luke 18:22 when around 1160 he up and sold all he had and started a nondescr
God is omniscient; God is omnipotent. God is omnipresent. We grew up with these notions of God burned into our brains. When they explained to us that he knows all, is capable of all, and is everywhere, we thought, how natural; that is just like God. He couldn’t be any other way. We have grown up, and our questions have multiplied fruitfully and fil
