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John Chau, missionary to the Sentinelese: martyr or madness?

You've probably seen it in the news lately: John Chau, the American guy who tried to evangelise the secluded Sentinelese tribe off the coast of India. Much of the debate in secular media has centered around the grief of his friends and family; how he could have brought outside disease to the tribespeople and potentially killed them all (despite this not being their first contact with outsiders, with no known ill effect), or that he ventured there completely in ignorance with no preparation or wisdom — something which the missionary agency, All Nations, has recently debunked. But the question I want to look at is this: was Chau's mission total madness or is...

Should Christians get tattoos, and is it Biblical?

...l of this debate stems from one seemingly clear verse in Leviticus: Leviticus 19:28 (WEB)You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh. In the manner of how Hebrew works, the clause “for the dead” is applying to both phrases. The cuttings and the marks are not to be “for the dead”. Those Hebrew phrases which seem to repeat a similar thought are generally connected and are saying the same thing in two different ways to emphasise the point (just look at the Psalms for many examples of this). Not to mention that the word “tattoo” didn’t exist until the 17th century, prior to that it was trans...

Does Jesus mean Hail Zeus?

...self in a debate about this Jesus/Zeus nonsense.     Further Reading Greek “Ge”: http://biblehub.com/greek/1093.htm Latin “Sus”: http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=1015706 Pegasus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus#Etymology http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pegasus http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/Pegasus.html http://www.behindthename.com/name/pegasus Dionysus: http://www.behindthename.com/name/dionysos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysus#Etymology http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dionysus.html Ephesus: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ἔφεσος#Ancient_Greek http://www.ety...

The Real St. Nicholas: A Man of Virtue, Not Violence

...uring the debate. However, contemporary records do not corroborate this tale. Even Nicholas’s attendance at the council is uncertain, as his name is absent from the earliest participant lists. The story likely arose as a dramatic embellishment to highlight his zeal for orthodoxy. Over time, it has been embraced as a symbol of righteous indignation. Roger Pearse, of the Tertullian Project, summarises this legend succinctly: To summarise again: there is no ancient evidence whatever that St Nicholas punched or slapped Arius at the First Council of Nicaea. The story is not found in any text before the late 14th century, and even that one mentions only “a cert...

Women should be silent?

...marriage debate is also based on a creation-order logic that God 'made them male and female' (Gen 1:27; Mk 10:6), therefore man/man, woman/woman can't marry - and the church is fighting its hardest to make that apply to all people, secular or otherwise - despite Paul saying judging those outside the church is not our business (1 Cor 5:12). So why in the instance of women being silent, should this same creation-order command from Paul be only situational and the other not? Leaving aside the silence issue for a moment, those women out there who do keep to this non-authority, staying quiet thing - do you follow the preceding verse as strictly?  ...also that...

When Church History and Science Collide

...is up for debate of course; and whether the sign in the sky was pointing to the Schism being a good or bad thing is an issue for another day. But it’s an interesting connection, nonetheless. Let me know what you think in the comments below!   Sources/references: Great Schism | National Geographic Society The Crab Nebula | NASA SN 1054 — Wikipedia Supernova of 1054 and its Remnant, the Crab Nebula — NASA/ADS (harvard.edu) If only they knew what they were looking at! ?? #astronomy #astronomytok #physicstok #spacetok (tiktok.com)...