Sublime

The doctrine was of small account: the practices were the important part; these were obligatory, and bound man ( ligare, religio).

And to the extent that the law of cause and effect is subject to indeterminism—quantum or otherwise—we can take no credit for what happens. There

the Genesis 1 blueprint persists. God has not given up on his creation and he does not let us rip up his blueprint. Whatever the perceptions and desires that we experience internally, an objective order exists that our biology attests to.

Now for a wild fact—only about 5 percent of DNA constitutes genes. The remaining 95 percent? The dizzyingly complex on/off switches, the means by which various environmental influences regulate unique networks of genes, with multiple types of switches on a single gene and multiple genes being regulated by the same type of switch.

As a result of sociobiological pressures there has evolved among Homo sapiens a sort of “herd morality,” which functions well in the perpetuation of our species. But on the atheistic view there doesn’t seem to be anything about Homo sapiens that makes this morality objectively true. If we were to rewind the film of human evolution back to the

general and universal. At the most general and most universal level you are usually identifying basic characteristics of God (God is love; God is holy and just; God is a God who saves and delivers, etc.). Right below this are usually general statements about the implications of these truths for God’s people in general. Then these general truths

The more we understand the human mind in causal terms, the harder it becomes to draw a distinction between cases like 4 and 5.

Verse 15 is an enormously difficult verse to translate but is probably best understood as combating the heresy and its anti-marriage stance (4:3). A literal translation would yield, “But she will be saved by childbirth, if they remain in faith and love and holiness with propriety.”