A New Direction

After a sabbatical for finals and a bit of vacation, I find myself returning to my blog. Every so often, I find myself promising a different direction to my blog, but never getting it onto paper. For a long time, I've wanted to advance this blog beyond canned Christian issues and hot topic outrage posts.

What I mean by this is not posting safe, obvious responses to hot news stories and attaching Scripture just to make sure it sounds Christian. Instead, I wish, to delve deeper into issues and demonstrate Scripture. For example, showing that life begins at conception by science confirms the Bible, but can stand on it's own if someone is really adverse to the Bible. In other words, I take "secular" arguments and show that God got it right. Compare this to "proving " Scripture. It can get kinda circular to a non-Christian. Thus it's preaching to the choir and largely useless as an outreach tool. I also find the former method better for convincing people.

To sum up, rather than post rhetoric, I wish to analyze the human condition and connect it to Scripture. After all, we're all human. If someone wants to reject my end pieces that demonstrate the Bible, they can. Look at Frankenstein for a great example. The doctor plays God and pays for it. His condition was one of proving himself at any cost. We can all relate to trying for too much; pride and greed, two big Biblical principles. Take his creation, who only wanted a mate and to be left alone. The doctor wasn't ready to afford his creation human status, despite that others did so. The creation's condition is one we all know: belonging, a need for love, socializing. Not exactly a Christian novel, but I can connect it to God's Word and show these things. In English and Philosophy classes, some of these things are "universal truths."

If it convinces you of God, great. If not, the rest of my point exists on its own to show whatever my aim is. Someone might say God doesn't exist, but they still have to get around life beginning at conception, per my earlier example. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.