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Human Nature

Mental Health Problem or Sin Problem? Wait—Can’t It Be Both?

By Aaron Blumer on Wed, 08/12/26
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Problems in our behavior can be both mental health problems and “sin problems.” Part of the confusion on the topic of mental health among conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists is the assumption that a life problem has to be one or the other.

Is It Mental Health or a Spiritual Problem?

By Filings on Tue, 08/11/26
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“This text teaches the sufficiency of the scripture to answer our spiritual problems. And let’s make sure that we understand that our emotional problems are also spiritual issues.” - P&D

Leisure Doesn’t Make Us Happy

By Filings on Wed, 07/15/26
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“Summertime and the living is easy. Vacations…. Wouldn’t it be great to always have leisure time like this? Not having to work. Devoting oneself to constant entertainment. Wouldn’t that be finally reaching the goal in our pursuit of happiness? No, actually.” - Veith

Junking the Myth of Human/Chimp Similarity—Casey Luskin

By Filings on Thu, 06/25/26
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‘Earlier comparisons overstated similarity due to methodological choices…. Luskin notes that in any case percentage similarity alone cannot prove common ancestry, since similarities could also be explained by ‘common design.’” - Discovery.org

C. S. Lewis, the New Atheists, and the Failure to Disprove God with Alister McGrath

By Filings on Thu, 06/04/26
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Former atheist “McGrath sees how much desire determines what we believe about the universe. He says, ‘The human desire for unaccountability leads to the metaphysical conclusion that there should not be a God.’” - TGC

The Human Heart and Unbelief: A Biblical Perspective

By Richard Bargas on Thu, 05/28/26
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“Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary, and saw what He had done, believed in Him. But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Sanhedrin together, and were saying, ‘What are we doing? For this man is doing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.’” (John 11:45–48, LSB)

Can Christians Believe in Ghosts?

By Filings on Mon, 05/04/26
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“Gavin Ortlund explores whether Christians can believe in ghosts, offering a biblical perspective that challenges pop-culture ideas while taking the supernatural seriously.” - TruthUnites

What Transhumanism’s Hopes Reveal About Our Hearts

By Filings on Fri, 04/24/26
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“The transhumanist vision, then, entails that prior to our death, our patterns will be uploaded to a computer. Then we’ll exist for some time as digital code before our patterns are downloaded into new, better bodies. The parallels to Christian eschatology are striking.” - TGC

True Happiness Is Only Found in the Last Place Many People Look

By Filings on Mon, 04/06/26
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“ ‘While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.’ One reason is because we’re sinners. Another is because the average person wouldn’t imagine that happiness could be found in God.” - Alcorn

Solzhenitsyn: “We Have Ceased to See the Purpose”

By Filings on Wed, 03/18/26
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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” - Imaginative Conservative

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