God talk

  Today I've been thinking about when Jesus said that our righteousness has to surpass that of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.   These are actually incredible words because If we think about it Jesus had many run ins with the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and they were always trying to trip him up.   Yet Jesus said, your righteousness must surpass that of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.   Nicodemus was also a Pharisee he was a Pharisee that actually believed in Jesus, secretly, that he was the Messiah. Now the question is: How can our righteousness surpass that of the Pharisees and the Sadducees? The Angel of the Forest I met Water Lily   The Pharisees and the Sadducees kept the law absolutely perfectly, and they even made a fence around it so that it would be impossible to break the law when our Lord and saviour grew up in a place where the Temple, the Second Temple, was still around also there was a place in the desert where people worshiped God, because for them the Templ

  Bavinck on the Teleological Argument Objections to the teleological argument Bavinck saw that there were scholars who denied the teleological grounds and purpose of creation: “First of all, materialism asserts that there is no purpose in things, and the teleological interpretation of nature must give way to the mechanical one. Pantheism, moreover, affirms that the presence of order and purpose in the universe gives us absolutely no warrant to posit the existence of a conscious, intelligent cause since, both in the case of the individual human and that of the world as a whole, the unconscious functions with more wisdom and certainty than conscious reflection and deliberate calculation. Finally, Kant raised the objection that this argument at most leads to a world-shaper not to a World creator” (pages 82 to 83) Bavinck Replies to these objections In this section Bavinck answers the objectors firstly through Jewish Christian writings.   After this he will show that the Ancie