Last week, I got through Matthew 5:20. Today, I am going to wrap up Chapter 5 and see how far I get in under 1500 words.
Matthew 5:21-48
I have decided that I don’t need Richard Dawkins to be an atheist. The Bible itself, when examined without an emotional lens, makes no sense. And is a little [...]

Whoops, meant to post this yesterday, but got carried away reading my old journal instead. So Bible study tonight instead, and on Wednesdays from here on out!
ETA: I wrote this while on some cold medicine. I just went back through and edited it a bit, because, wow, it definitely sounds like I was [...]

To outsiders looking in, conservative Christianity seems to demean women, yet women often say that they don’t feel that way at all–that being submissive has helped their marriage and they feel empowered and protected. To the outside world, they proclaim how wonderful it is to submit. But the reality is more secretive than that; that [...]

It is interesting to see how incredibly easy it is to misapply verses in the Bible, getting major doctrinal statements out of them. Sometimes, you don’t even have to know much to realize how faulty the logic is.  There are two major verses in the Bible that many evangelical churches illogically apply the same way [...]

It is inevitable. Whenever someone begins to struggle with their faith, they are told to have more faith. They are told that to do this, they must pray and read their Bible more as if that will magically answer the questions they will have. A children’s song proclaiming “If you read your Bible and pray [...]

Semi-close to the end of my religious experiences, one of the final straws hit me one day: I realized how much we really do pick and choose. I realized how much we justified away with the flimsiest of excuses and reasons. The truth is, nobody takes the Bible literally. They only take certain parts literally. [...]

I have said in previous posts that a person can justify or condemn absolutely anything using the Bible. I thought of a good example in which Hitler can be justified and the American Revolution can be condemned using the exact same verse contextually.
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no [...]

I read a Bible story the other day, and I had never heard it before. It was pretty short and went like this:
“There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for [...]