First and foremost I want to thank you for stopping by and welcome you to Bridge to
Babylon. If you are reading this now, you are reading the first blog post I have ever
written. I must say, I am feeling both a little nervous and more than a little awkward by
even starting this... I mean really, does the world need another blog? Probably not, but
here we are.
In case you do not know me, my name is Chad. I received my Masters of Divinity from
Reformed Theological Seminary in May 2012. Currently I teach Commercial Aviation at
a local Community College but am hoping to branch out to teach religion, philosophy,
and ancient history eventually. I grew up a very active member of a Southern Baptist
Church but swapped over to the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) at some point in
my college carrier. My theological persuasions are, for the most part, in line with the
Westminster Confession of Faith and I will reference it many times in future posts. If
you are unfamiliar with this document you can read it and other confessions of faith
For a while now I have considered writing a blog, but have never felt up to it. I
reluctantly decided to start writing this when several of my friends on Facebook began
to ask me questions and asked me to start writing a blog so that I could answer their
questions more in-depth. I decided that if people were asking me to do it, then there
must be a need for it. So once again, here we are.
If you are a friend of mine on Facebook you have probably noticed that some of my
status updates have been designed to be attention getting with the intention of fostering
discussion or giving a different perspective on a controversial topic. This, however is
not the intention of this blog. The point of me writing here is to be helpful in
understanding the topics that I will address. I am not saying that what follows will never
be controversial or that you will agree with everything that I write. But I will not be
controversial for the sake of controversy. It is my sincere hope that something found
within these e-pages will help you in your theological journey and bring about discussion
and/or further understanding of a topic. I also hope that this will be of help to me as
well.
Primarily, I will be discussing theological or doctrinal topics here. Since my primary
interests lie in the area of Old Testament studies and Ancient Near Eastern history, I
hope to deal with issues surrounding these topics as well. I will also post occasional
book reviews when I read a book that I feel would be helpful to review. I may also post
links to other articles or blogs that I find helpful. That said, I am hoping that much of my
content will be reader generated. So if there is a question or topic you want me to
address or even a book that you would like me to review, I do take requests.
Hopefully I will update this every two weeks with a new topic. Topics that I have in the
works now are "why the name Bridge to Babylon?", "are all sins really equal?", and a
three part review of the book The Shack.
Again, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you continue to read.
