http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com Committed to orthodoxy with no fear of deviating from blind tradition. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:50:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Orthodox Deviation has returned to its original home at Blogger. There I'm less likely to have my blog stripped away for a month or have handy features stolen. Just click right hya. Oooh nice, Refromed Blogs still has the "edit link" feature! http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2008/01/15/gone-back-home/ Hammer is doing a series of posts entitled "How To Defeat Conditional Immortality" over at his blog, The Forsaken Gift. They make for an interesting read and, if his advise is heeded, would help reduce the amount of time the two camps spend merely arguing at each other. Check them ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/10/11/how-to-defeat-conditional-immortality/ A Christian blogger, who goes by the screen name Aspiring Theologian, has a pretty good post entitled Possible Biblical Allegory in HALO. His post is a good introduction to the topic. I may post more on the topic later. http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/10/02/biblical-themes-in-halo/ Spike TV has a TV show called Ultimate Fighter. On the show, two UFC  champions coach a team of amateur fighters. A fighter-in-training from each team is chosen to fight in the octagon and the winner is one step closer to being a pro fighter in the UFC. As well, ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/27/still-a-god-of-war/ Are we left here on our own? Can you feel when your last breath is gone? Night is weighing heavy now Be quiet and wait for a voice that will say Come awake From sleep, arise You were dead You’ve come alive Wake up wake up Open your eyes Climb from your grave Into the light Bring ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/26/come-awake/ The extent of corruption of the human heart shines ever so clearly in this song. "Let's glorify ourselves and pretend that we are glorifying God." http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/22/why-i-prefer-psalms/ Gamer 1: Dude, I am so stoked about the release of Halo 3. That game is definitely going to bring the fullness of multiplayer Halo fun factor. Gamer 2: Yeah, it's going to be cool and all, but don't you think you are betraying Halo by looking so forward to Halo ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/22/halo-3-anticipation/ When God created the creatures on the sixth day, he told the earth to bring for the living creatures. In order for a creature to be living, it must have the breath of life (spirit). So God commanded the earth to bring forth living creatures with breath of life included ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/18/spirits-of-man-and-beast/ Haiku is meant to tell about a seemingly ordinary moment (having to do with nature) in a way that makes it special. Humans are existential creatures. Sometimes, as we go about our daily routines, we see something special in an ordinary moment that we have failed to experience the last 100 times ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/18/the-importance-of-haiku/ Here is a refreshing word on the topic of terrorism from an Edward Fudge GracEmail entitled "Beyond Terror." So many evangelicals seem to be drawn into the notion that we are actually at "war" with terror, our biggest enemy, and that America is somehow impervious to evil. I like Fudge's ... http://orthodoxdeviation.reformedblogs.com/2007/09/11/edward-fudge-on-terror/