Matthew E. Taft

James Calkins at http://theologetics.blogspot.com/ posted some questions he’s been thinking about lately, and asked his readers to take a shot with some of them. I started to respond there, and it got too long, so I decided to do some cross-linking. Hopefully he’ll come here to read my response. His questions, summarized, were:

…questions about God, humanity, life, death, afterlife, eternity, the Bible, evil, suffering, etc., etc… Questions like, “Why doesn’t God seem to work in the same ways He did in the past? If He is immutable then why does it appear that He has changed?” and, “If God is eternal then what was He doing (pardon the mixed metaphor) before He created the universe, and if He is unchanging then wouldn’t He have never made a universe since that would constitute a universe-sized change in His pre-creation habits?” and… “I understand the existence of love to be in harmony with a good God who is both unchanging and triune, because there has always been love among the members if the Godhead, but where did His ‘wrath’ originate?”

Learn Taekwondo from a Seven-Year-Old from Matthew Taft on Vimeo.

Just had an interesting situation with my laptop running Vista. Whenever I have this much trouble finding a solution, I like to post ithere in case one day someone else is searching for a solution to the same problem.

Many of us have been involved in conversations where a person resorts to yelling or defensively standing by their position even when they no longer seem to have any good reason to do so. In my opinion, when someone gets to this point, they’ve already lost the argument.

Having a lot of nothing to say about any topic.

Philosophical questions on existence and child rearing, with help from Louis CK

Every wondered why they’re called Decepticons?

It really makes you wonder what people have done to force companies to write warnings like this (in the manual for installing a new battery in my laptop) …

Thoughts inspired by “Our Friend Electricity” by Ron Wolfe. Can these who have been hurt by friends forgive the friends, and still struggle with being able to open up again to someone else? If life moves on, forgiveness is granted, and new friendships are made–what then? A person may find they are unable to open up emotionally to the extent that they had in the past. It seems that many who have forgiven hurtful friendships still struggle to find meaningful friendships in their life where they can be vulnerable.