Virtuous!

Marilyn, my wife, is virtuous and capable. I trust her. She is precious to me and has greatly enriched my life. "When she speaks, her words are wise, and kindness is the rule when she gives instructions." Proverbs 31:26 (NLT). Thank you Marilyn. I love you!

A Prayer begins . . .

Our Father in heaven, thank you for those you've brought into our lives. Bless Marilyn and all capable women who value speaking wisely, acting with kindness and loving you completely.

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Two selected book quotations begin . . .

Joy Possessed Considerable Intellect

Lyle W. Dorsett, A Love Observed, Joy Davidman's Life & Marriage to C. S. Lewis, Harold Shaw Publishers, 1983, 1991, 1998, pp. 97, 98.       SoAmazing.com

Category: Inspiration
ISBN: 087788479X
Keywords: divinity, Jesus, theology, Christian, Kenneth Porter, God, human, whims, authority, Harold Shaw Publishers, Dorsett, Lyle W. Dorsett

"The divinity of Jesus Christ was at the center of any theology worth labeling 'Christian,' she proclaimed to fellow poet Kenneth Porter. The '$64 question,' to Joy's mind, centered on Jesus. 'Was he God or wasn't he?' she elaborated on the centrality of this question by emphasizing that 'No amount of talk about Jesus' saintly ideas will help if we don't think he's God; for if he was just another human, then he could be mistaken like the rest of us, and his ideas are just his private whims, as ours are.' She went on to point out that we all have to decide on what authority 'we call his ideas saintly.' If it is by God's authority, 'How do we know what God thinks (except through what Jesus told us, and unless Jesus was God he was just guessing).' Disputing those who label Jesus 'a good man,' she argued that such a position 'really means only that we like him because he agrees with us--and the minute he doesn't agree with us we will toss him overboard. . . . ' "

SoAmazing Review: Lyle W. Dorsett digs into the lives of Joy Davidman Lewis and her husband C. S. Lewis with particularity and care. The result provides fascinating insights into both.

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God Put It All Together

Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live?, Tyndale House Publishers,
Inc., 1999, pp. 78, 79.   SoAmazing.com

Category: General
ISBN: 0842318089
Keywords: Christians, God, scientific question, origin of life, ignorance, primitives, rational, supernatural, irrational, natural, science, nature, alchemists, species, birth, offspring, empirical evidence, creation, intelligent agent, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Colson, Charles Colson, Pearcy, Nancy Pearcey

"Many Christians are nervous about invoking God to answer any scientific question, even the origin of life. We're afraid of being accused of resorting to the 'God of the gaps' argument--of using God to cover over our ignorance--only to have a natural explanation turn up later and embarrass us. This fear is understandable, given the fact that Christians have been cast into the same category as primitives who attribute thunder to the raging of their gods. But there are times when it is more rational to accept a supernatural explanation and when it is actually irrational to hold out for a natural explanation.

We know from science itself that there are some things nature cannot do. We know that we will never fulfill the alchemist's dream of chemically transmuting lead into gold. We know that a parent of one species will never give birth to offspring of another species. To persist in seeking natural laws in such cases is as irrational as any primitive myth of the thunder gods. Science reveals consistent patterns that allow us to make negative statements about what natural forces cannot do.

Empirical evidence makes it clear that natural forces do not produce structures with high information content. This is not a statement about our ignorance-a 'gap' in knowledge that will be filled in later by a natural explanation. Rather, it is a statement about what we know--about our consistent experience of the character of natural processes. Today, holding on to the hope that some natural process will be found to explain DNA is supremely irrational. The elusive process that naturalists hope to find would have to be completely unprecedented, different in kind from any we currently know. Surely, this is an argument from ignorance.

When it comes to the origin of life, science is squarely on the side of creation by an intelligent agent. We have nothing to fear from the progress of science."

SoAmazing Review: How Now Shall We Live? starts strong and gets better chapter after chapter. A remarkable book that tackles the truly tough questions facing our world with intelligent insight.

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