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Jonah, Satire and Literal Interpretation

Recently, Revelife featured a post discussing just how literally Christians ought to take all parts of scripture. If Christians take the gospels as literal but the opening verses of Genesis as metaphorical, is that a…
The Poet's Fear

God may reduce you on Judgment Day To tears of shame, reciting by heart The poems you would have written, had Your life been good. - W. H. Auden, About the House Auden is writing to a fellow poet here, an…
Was God Punishing Me, or Just Testing My Faith?

Don't ask me from who, but I have heard Christians say that God doesn't punish people because He is love. I disagree, because we all deserve to be judged and He does not have to be gracious to anyone. If He were to p…
"But He's Not Worth Saving!" Pt. 1

by miss goldenrod In Sunday School growing up, I had always been told that Jonah was afraid to go to Nineveh to minister to the people there. Not true! Jonah didn't think the Ninevites were worth the saving grace of Y…