Hi readers,

It's been a pretty long time since my last post. That discussion I had with the atheist was long enough, I suppose, to act as several posts.

Since that time, my theology has undergone a significant overhaul, but while I might change a few points, and the direction of the discussion I posted before, I think that I would do it mostly the same if I had another shot.

Following that, the atheist and I had a discussion over email about morality. I have to admit, I think I lost the morality debate (which is a weird thing for a Christian to do in a morality debate with an atheist), and I simply exited the discussion. I did in part because my pride was hurt, but also because things were stressful at home. Around that same time, I was 3 to 5 months married, and I totaled my car and got a dog. I recognized where I had gone wrong, but I had already gone back on myself more than once as my worldview was being overturned by the things I was hearing at Apologia. I couldn't bring myself to go back on my argument again. I entered that discussion with a failed worldview, and at the time when I exited I was undergoing very rapid change in the way I saw the world.

I've been longing to get back into blogging. I missed this a lot, and I have a lot to share. I want to take back a few things I've said that would have caused my argument to reduce to Open Theism, and redirect my overall train of reasoning a bit, given new info. I'll try to find exactly the points I made, and demonstrate why they are wrong wherever I change rails. I want to revisit the morality debate, summarize it for you guys, give some info about my old opinion and the things I've thought about since then. (Maybe, if I build up the gumption, I'll even get back in touch with that guy.) I'd also like to comment on the series of posts I did before with a few new bits of info that I realized they lacked. I want to restate the issue of presuppositions and foundations, and give some examples that have come up in argument with atheists since my last post.

I also hope to put out some generalized (not too specific) info about the way God has been working in my marriage. Marriage is a beautiful thing (and doesn't exactly make sense in atheism, I think).

As I've done in the past, I want to remind everyone that I'm still a Trinitarian, saved-by-grace/faith-alone Christian. I don't want to live my life without a foundation under my feet, and I must be able to live in a way consistent with my foundation. I don't want to eat, drink, or breathe if I cannot justify the act in the ultimate. I'm doing my best to be continually examining the world around me, and I have not yet seen any flaw in the Christian foundation, nor have I seen any other Rock without fissure. Rebuilding a worldview is unsettling, humbling, and exciting, and I hope that I never stop doing so; humbly sanctifying my opinions and beliefs under the Lordship of the one and only God, until I die.

"Let God be true though every man a liar."