- Written by: John Rae
- Category: Blog
The other day, I was following an online chat about the rising tide of ‘cancel culture’. One participant quipped, “You know, trying to live your life under a rock somewhere is not as safe as it used to be!”. In the same vein, back in 1969, the rock and roll poet, Mick Jagger wrote:
- Written by: John Rae
- Category: Blog
One of the images of God in Scripture is that He is a loving, wooing, bridegroom and we are His bride. He pursues us as the bridegroom who is totally smitten by His bride, but He does not overwhelm us, He woos us. “He (God) is wooing you from the jaws of distress to a spacious place free from restriction…” Job 36:16. In the same vein, Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them”, John 6:44.
- Written by: John Rae
- Category: Blog
In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel published his “incompleteness theorem” which states that any logical system must ultimately be reliant on something outside of that closed system. Internally the system can show that the relationship between a set of statements is logically flawless, but the real-world truth of that logical conclusion is outside the realm of just demonstrating internal consistency. In other words, formal systems cannot “think outside of the box”.