Tag: God

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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Atheists often speak in scientific terms to support their view of God’s non-existence. They’ll say things like, “I do not see any evidence that God exists, so I reject your hypothesis.”  This idea that God’s existence is a scientific hypothesis that can be tested and either confirmed or rejected is incompatible with the definition of…
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Lost Everyone knows what it’s like to be lost. Like a child separated from its mother, you’re unsure of which way to go. You search for something familiar, something that can help you find your way back…. Something that can help you find your way home. In early 1941 — the high-water mark of 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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Bio Dr. William Lane Craig is the founder and creative voice behind ReasonableFaith.org — one of the web’s most influential Christian apologetics websites. The mission of which is “to provide in the public arena an intelligent, articulate, and uncompromising yet gracious Christian perspective on the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith today”.[1]  This…
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Blessings I sat across from my wife on our sectional sofa. She held our newborn son gently on her chest. His eyes were closed and cheeks smushed in a milk-induced stupor. Tears streamed slowly down her cheeks as she started to speak, “I just don’t know what to do. I’m stressed about the baby. I’m…
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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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Edward Feser’s book, Aquinas: A Beginners Guide, serves as an edifying introduction to the saint’s “Five Ways” theses for defending God’s existence. Feser does a superb job of simplifying Aquinas, a saint whose work is notoriously hard to comprehend. He goes to great pains to ensure that everyone – from the seasoned “Thomist” to the complete…
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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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