God Centered Dad

Canada has been incubating a culture of death for decades. One of the greatest failures of our current civilization is the failure to protect the lives of the most innocent and vulnerable members of our society; those being the unborn children in the mother's womb. While this article is not about abortion, I will share some quick facts about abortion in Canada. There is currently no law restricting abortion in any way in Canada, making Canada one of only two countries in the world with absolutely no restrictions on a mother killing her unborn child. I believe that the only other country with no rules at all about this is Communist China, which spent decades under a one child law. This is shameful. This lack of laws surrounding abortion means that it is available for any reason at any stage of development, right up to partial birth abortions. Stats about abortion are slow to be compiled, and we have just ended another year of child butchery, so the latest numbers I could find are f...

   Today I am going to attempt to explain my understanding of what happens to us when we die. I will not claim that what follows is Biblical doctrine, because there are verses that appear to be contrary to what I believe while there are also verses that seems to support what I believe. While this can be said of virtually any topic, a lot of times that has to do with whether or not one is reading the Word in context or not, and also whether one is trying to read their beliefs into Scripture instead of getting their beliefs from Scripture. This is somewhat different in that I think that God has left this topic intentionally vague for us. I can't presume to understand why He would do so, but I do know that there are some things that we just don't need to know yet. That doesn't mean that we can't develop a theory on these things. The main point of the following is to recognize that we need to use Scripture to interpret Scripture. If your understanding of a verse is contrary...