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hamartiology

What is sin?

December 5, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: hamartiology, original sin, sin

Are you (ever) embarrassed to be human?

December 21, 2016 by Randal

I am. Today, at least, I am. Many things have happened this week which would be sufficient to induce that misanthropic state of mind. But this week the straw that broke this camel’s back came with the story of Grayson Smith, a terminally ill three year old who suffers from more life-threatening medical conditions than most people […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Grayson Smith, hamartiology, humanity, internet, sin

Why Jesus was NOT “tempted” (and why it matters)

October 15, 2013 by Randal

The following is a repost of an article originally published at The Christian Post in 2009. * * * In their trials and temptations many Christians have drawn strength from Hebrews 4:15: “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, hamartiology, impeccability, Jesus Christ, sin

The most sinful man in the room

January 24, 2013 by Randal

Back in the early 1960s many people considered Harrry Blamires, a budding Anglican theologian and literary critic, to be a younger C.S. Lewis. In his incisive book The Christian Mind (1963) Blamires explores the question of how one’s Christian convictions ought to change the way one thinks. Like all great books, The Christian Mind has aged gracefully and its […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: hamartiology, Harry Blamires, sin, The Christian Mind

Do animals sin?

May 14, 2012 by Randal

Theologians and philosophers have long identified two kinds of evil: moral and natural. The latter is rooted in suffering that arises from the processes and events of the natural world including all suffering that arises from the actions of animals. The only sources of moral evil in the world — and with it sin — […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: chimpanzee animal, hamartiology, Jane Goodall, sin, When Elephants Weep

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