Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 8:00AM | by Otter I took an hour or two today to watch Lee Strobel’s “The Case For Faith.”
The Amazon reviews are typically full-throated exultations of the video’s power.
I found it weirdly lacking in substance.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:20PM | by Otter A little geeky, but a nice theological object lesson about the Western forensic view of atonement and the ancient Orthodox counter-proposal.
Atonement, Heaven, Hell, Orthodoxy, Protestantism in Biblical Interpretation, God, Religion Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3:26PM | by Otter 
How would you identify the genre of a story in which Humankind is placed in the Garden of Delight, and forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good And Evil, and is tempted by a talking serpent to do just that, and is forthwith cast from the garden?
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 11:30AM | by Otter Let's go right for the jugular.
Is God literally incapable of forgiving sin without bloodshed....?
Metaphors are like those little dots and bubbles on your eyes: you know, the ones that you can see unless you actually look at them. When you try to track with them, they run just out of the line of your focus (because they sit on the lens that's moving to try to catch them).
I mean that once a metaphor comes out and says, "Surprise! I'm really a metaphor, and now you don't have to think of me 'literally' any longer," it ceases to exist.
