Tag: Christianity

The ubiquity of human suffering seems to directly contradict the Christian belief in an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving God.  Trying to find a “reason” for our pain is an affront to our human conscience. We appear left with only 2 options: A) God is not truly loving or B) God is not all-powerful. And of course, if…
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Millennials Haven’t Developed “Personal Faith” American Millennials are leaving the Christian faith in droves. According to a new Pew Research poll, 40% now identify as “no religion”. And, believe it or not, this is actually MUCH better than the decline seen in most European countries. But why? Why have so many of us abandoned the…
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“Eisegesis vs exegesis” is the most important conversation that no one in the Church is having. Peruse a Christian message board. You will quickly find that there are seemingly endless differences in the interpretation of scriptures. How can we determine the theological importance of the Bible if we can’t settle on what it actually means?…
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John Lennox is a “must-see” for anyone struggling to justify their faith. His training as a professor of mathematics makes him uniquely qualified to tangle with some of the most brilliant minds atheism can bring to bear. The strategies used in his debates with Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens should serve as models for the…
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Recap This week, another Christian, whose opinion I hold with the utmost respect, raised a question regarding my line of logic concerning the emergence of life on Earth. He pointed out that a lot of the Christian argument against the spontaneous, undirected, rise of life mistakenly follows this line of thought: 1: X is a…
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The Apostle Paul in Context If asked to justify their faith, some Christians point to Anselm’s ontological argument, others to objective morality, but most serious Christians always come back to a singular event – the Apostle Paul and his Damascus Road conversion. In his book, Paul: A Biography, author N.T. Wright shows that this was much…
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Recap Based on some of the feedback from last week’s, “No Religion”: America’s Fastest Growing Religion – Part 1”, I think I need to be more clear about my reasons for writing this post. 40% of American Millennials identify as “No Religion”[1]. 89% of these Millennials believe that life evolved undirected[2]. In other words, they…
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design is a scholastic attempt at defending intelligent design as a theory worthy of inclusion within the halls of academia. The foundation of Dr. Stephen C Meyer’s argument lies with the information contained within the DNA molecule. Dr. Meyer argues that, like a computer program,…
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For 3 straight years, life expectancy rates across the US have declined – not because of worse medical care or a Coronavirus-like plague. No, they have dropped because of a dramatic increase suicide, opioid overdoses, and alcohol-related diseases. These are often referred to as “deaths of despair”. Google “US Life Expectancy drop”. You’ll find articles…
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