Christian Children's Book Review

http://ccbreview.blogspot.com/# is an excellent site titled the Christian Children's Book Review.  Six Christian mothers/book reviewers give detailed comments on current children's books, telling you what is good and what is questionable about the books they read.  They have a page to explain the criteria they use and actively solicit suggestions for books to be reviewed.

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Christians

At some time during their lives, the following people have publicly identified themselves as Christian.   Inclusion in this list does not indicate approval or disapproval of the person, their religious beliefs, or their actions.  This is a recurring segment in this blog.

Michelle Malalang Malkin: (b. 1970, Pennsylvania) Roman Catholic.  Author, syndicated columnist, television news commentator, blogger.

Mark Steven Fidrych: (b. 1974, Massachusetts – d. 2009) aka: “The Bird.” Professional baseball pitcher.  1976 American League Rookie of the Year.

Alaric II, King of the Visigoths: (d. 507) Alaric was an Arian.  He ruled from 484 to 507.

Don Francisco: (b. 1946, Kentucky)  Christian singer and songwriter.  Son of Baptist theologian and seminary professor, Clyde T. Francisco.

Jose Alberto Pujols Alcantara: (b. 1980, Dominican Republic) Professional baseball player with numerous sports awards.

scripture4all.org

     Scripture4all.org is a wonderful free website based in the Netherlands and loaded with features useful to serious students of the Bible.  The backbone(s) of the site is(are) the interlinear Greek and Hebrew Bibles.  Their format is three stacked lines per verse; line one is the Greek or Hebrew text, line two is the extremely literal translation, and line three is the plain English paraphrase.

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm

http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm

http://www.scripture4all.org/

     Other useful features include an Interlinear Scripture Analyzer used for word studies in Greek or Hebrew.  The word processor quirk with which I have struggled, their insistence on placing Hebrew letters in English letter order, can be overcome here: Hebrew can be displayed in either left to right or right to left letter order.  The site is free but donations are accepted and a statement is made that that new features may require a small fee.      

Morkemann

     In Norway, an insult word, Morkemann ("man of darkness"),is becoming common when referring to Christians, especially those who oppose abortion rights, homosexuality, and same-sex marriage, and who express support for Israel.

     In the United States we haven't quite gotten there yet but it is obvious that we could easily, as a nation, move in that direction.  Christians (those not already infected) must stand peacefully against this.  They'll hate us for it but that just means we're doing God's will.

"Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake." Luke 6:22 

 

Book Comment: Was Jesus God?

     Was Jesus God? is a well intentioned and vastly intellectual book but it also is not an easy, friendly read.  In the introduction, the author asks, " ... why should we suppose that God (if there is a God) is the Christian God?"  After what seems like thousands of pages (but not literally, it is a short book) of dense logical arguments, the author decides that the claims of orthodox Christianity are "very probably true."

     All "proofs" of God ultimately fail as do all disproofs.  If God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit could be logically proven even Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins would believe because they are not stupid people.  This book will not convince or convert anyone because they will be asleep with their faces pressed down on the pages.

Swinburne, Richard, Was Jesus God? (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2008)

King James Bible Online

www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/ is a free non-profit website which allows those who visit the site to search the entire Bible by book, chapter, and verse.  The site also features a dictionary, a concordance, several commentaries, a Bible trivia quiz, and allows readers to leave their own comments so long as they are respectful and not abusive or vulgar.  One rather long comment has been posted by a Muslim obviously motivated by a strong missionary urge to proclaim the truth of Islam.  He "played by the rules" and wished his readers well.  I think it speaks well of the site that the Muslim comment has not been edited or deleted.