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Mr. Miles’ Bible Class Lesson 3
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Mr. Miles’ Bible Class Lesson 2
I used to teach Bible classes to middle & high school students in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) school system. Now, I’m a secular humanist and an atheist. In this series, I review the major ideas I used to teach, in contrast with how I would teach them now.
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Here, I taught 6th-8th grades at Fresno Adventist Academy during the 2010-2011 school year.
Christian Atonement Claims That Forgiveness Requires Punishment
Why require punishment in order to give forgiveness?
Continue Reading Christian Atonement Claims That Forgiveness Requires PunishmentDeluded Does Not Equal Dummy
[The following is my answer to an accusation that I was calling Adventists “a bunch of dummies” in my essay found here.]
“Delusion” doesn’t mean “dummy.”
Continue Reading Deluded Does Not Equal DummyFB#4: The Great Divide?
This is the fourth of four points I made in a Facebook discussion in June and July of 2013. The people whose names are occasionally mentioned were the other participants in the discussion. It appears here for future reference since I deleted my Facebook account in April of 2018.
Continue Reading FB#4: The Great Divide?FB#3: All Scripture Is Inspired By God; Therefore I Reject God
This is the third of four points I made in a Facebook discussion in June and July of 2013. The people whose names are occasionally mentioned were the other participants in the discussion. It appears here for future reference since I deleted my Facebook account in April of 2018.
Continue Reading FB#3: All Scripture Is Inspired By God; Therefore I Reject GodFB#2: Rape Allowed By God Because Might Makes Right
This is the second of four points I made in a Facebook discussion in June and July of 2013. The people whose names are occasionally mentioned were the other participants in the discussion. It appears here for future reference since I deleted my Facebook account in April of 2018.
Continue Reading FB#2: Rape Allowed By God Because Might Makes RightFB#1: God Arbitrarily Exercises His Power To Protect
This is the first of four points I made in a Facebook discussion in June and July of 2013. The people whose names are occasionally mentioned were the other participants in the discussion. It appears here for future reference since I deleted my Facebook account in April of 2018.
Continue Reading FB#1: God Arbitrarily Exercises His Power To ProtectApologies for Jesus
The following is a contribution I made to a discussion in the comments section of spectrummagazine.org
Apologists for Jesus abound today. It’s fashionable now to re-imagine the Jesus of the Bible into a more familiar kind of progressive, humanistic, socially responsible guy. Not that he wasn’t already a kinder, gentler deity than the disciplinarian OT Almighty, but now he needs to be somehow more like us. And by us, I mean us LIBERALS.
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