I have another blog which can be found here:
xmasfish.wordpress.com
But it was too personal and in-jokey for what I would like to do on the blogosphere. Which is why I’ve started this one based on my incredibly weird TheologyWeb user name. At the time, I was doing some stupid story for my GCSE English Literature coursework about a foetus in space who solved mysterious with his pet Spermy-Doo (a giant talking sperm), a story which was entitled “Space Foetus”. I had only intended to lurk at the forum to check out some of the gym debates J.P. Holding from had had with various skeptics (*1). Soon I began posting and it turns out everyone over there needs to have a blog associated in some way with Christianity. So heres my official one: Thoughts of the Foetus.
Here I may as well just post my theological views and comment on them briefly. For a guide I’ll just be using my Tweb personal profile (*2)
Faith: Christian- testimony time- basically, I’ve been a Christian for most of my life. I was (and still am, I’m only 17) brought up in a Christian home with Christian parents, although our faith is something that is very rarely discussed. I remember it being brought up once and my parents said they did not want to force us to believe any religion and they want us to make up our own minds. I appreciate that. Nevertheless, they made us go to chuch, the youth groups and the Boys Brigade (partly for social reasons) and it is through these organisations (as well as the Scripture Union in our school which I went to out of my own choice- many of my friends in primary school were and still are Christians) that I began to become afraid of a place called “Hell”. I pretty much converted after these fears, something which is highly criticised today, by Christians and atheists. Nevertheless, I began to understand that I needed a savoir and comprehended Christianity a lot more as I became older. However, a couple of years ago, I started getting some intense doubt. I can vivadly remember singing praise at a church youth weekend, and being terrified that I was swallowing something totally unfounded in reality. Long story short, I eventually discovered apologetic sites such as Christian Answers (*3) and Answers In Genesis (*4). While I now disagree with AiG and even resent their theological stances sometimes, I am eternally grateful for them for opening up the door for me to apologetics. They are possibly the most accessible and interactive apologetics ministry out there for the masses. I think that we need the more scholarly ministries to start heading in that direction- some are now, and it was these sites that I later discovered and dispelled doubt- sites like Tekton (*5) and Reasonable Faith (*6). I am now more secure in my faith and a lot more knowledgable about it, thanks to TWeb and these various sites. I must admit that I do doubt every so often, but I have the Holy Spirit for conviction and reason to fall back on in my spiritually darker times.
Well, that was an overlong testimony.
Ecclesiology/Denomination: Presbyterian- not sure I agree with everything they say, but I go to a Presbyterian Church and I greatly respect their history.
Eschatology: Orthodox Preterist (Partial Preterist)- was a futurist for a while after reading the Left behind series that I discovered in my church library, but Tekton and Dee Dee’s sites quickly remedied that 
. For the record, I see hyperpreterism (i.e. full-preterism, “consistant”-preterism, pantelism, covenatn eschatology, transmillenialism etc.) as a dangerous heresy.
Ontology: Trinitarian- As an orthodox Christian, I pretty much have to be one, don’t I?
Protology: Theistic Evolutionist- I prefer the term “evolutionary creationist”- I’m actually more of an agnostic on this issue: I used to be quite a hardline young earth creationist, but recently I’ve begun to question their approach to Genesis in the theological realm. In short, I don’t think Genesis has to be interpreted as an historical, literal, scientific account. I think that laymen are rational to accept the scientific consensus on a topic, and the consensus is pretty much that Darwinian Evolution is true, so I accept it while acknoweldging that I can not see for sure. I am sympathetic to Intelligent Design Movement philosphically, but agnostic scientifically.
Soteriology: Molinist- only because J.P. Holding and William Lane Craig are I hold to this tentativly, but it makes the most sense to me right now.
Various: Just War Theorist- It seems to be pretty obvious that war can be justified in some extreem cases e.g. World War Two. Doesn’t make me a war-mongering nut- believe me, I prefer peace overwhelmingly.
Anyways, thats about it for now. Expect more from me, once my A-Levels are over!
(*1) These debates can be found here: http://www.tektonics.org/twebarchives.html
(*2) http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/member.php?u=14958
(*3) http://christiananswers.net/
(*4) http://www.answersingenesis.org/
(*5) http://www.tektonics.org/
(*6) http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServer
