My wife and I got married in December and having resisted the urge to get a home phone so far. We been living off cell phones which in seemed like a better idea because we were both stuck in contracts and we didn’t want to be for three phones for two people.This has been our thinking for the last five months but now two things have shaken our once impeccable reason.
- My cell phone contract is going to expire in a month.
- We’ve now had one too many giant cell phone bills do to a “few” extra minutes.
So we’ve reluctantly decided to get a phone line. We looked into Vonage and our local cable (cogeco) and phone companies (bell) VoIP services but we either couldn’t get a local phone number (Vonage) or the companies were charging too much to make it worth while.So last week I ordered a phone line from Bell and a cable internet from Cogeco. They haven’t called me back yet to confirm installation but I’m sure it will be any day now…[UPDATE]The latest news is I saw an add from Cogeco for VoIP that is significantly less then the price I saw when I was researching so I’m going to make a call today about that.[MORE UPDATES]The better price is only if you are subscribing to digital cable TV too. Bell here I come. Vonage come to my area![YET ANOTHER UPDATE]After a tip from my friend Aaron, I cancelled my Bell phone service before it ever arrived and signed up with Primus.ca. It’s going to be about $20 a month and it has all the call features! Sounds good to me.Once I receive the stuff and have it all set up I’ll post again and let you know how it works.
“I’m willing to die for it” versus “The Bible is Inerrant”: How Best to Speak About the Authority of Scriptures in our Times
David Fitch writes an interesting article on the inerrancy of scripture in our postmodern context. I’ll give you a quote or two to whet your appetite:
…inerrancy is an accommodation to another source of authority that inherently subordinates Scripture to its authority. This other source of authority is the modernist cultural norms of modern science and derivatives thereof. In so doing, the inerrancy strategy places the authority of Scripture beneath (under) the authority of modern science. In this way, inerrancy diminishes the authority of Scripture.
So, in essence, David is saying that the inerrancy debate of the past one hundred years places science in a position of authority over scripture and therefor scripture becomes subject to the authority of science.
He goes on to say that,
The inerrancy approach teaches us to see the Bible as a set of propositions to be analyzed for their correspondence one to one to an external reality… But the fact is, the Bible is an alive and real Story, a Story that is true, that is not a dead scientific textbook of facts. We must either redefine “inerrancy” or do something to remove Scripture from the deadness of modernist rationalities that “inerrancy” is a part of. Emphasis Mine
What do you think? Does the inerrancy of scripture debate actually diminish scriptures authority?
From The Great Giveaway.
Over the last day, I’ve updated some elements of the site to try and make it a bit more usable and hopefully, better looking.
- I’ve shrunk the sidebar by styling my flickr photo’s into a 2×2 grid and I’ve shrunk and styled my Del.icio.us links by using a smaller font and creating a CSS table.
- I’ve also moved the flickr, del.icio.us, and technoriti information off the sub-pages.
- Finally, I added a related posts sidebar item to the permalink pages. This is not so important right now, but will be helpful as the post volume grows.
The plan is to use this as a site to help me get feedback on my sermon preperation, topics and ideas. I hope to provide links that I have found helpful to my study, links to a few blogs that challenge me, the odd book review and who knows what else.
