Someone asked a group of us what we thought the opposite of love is. Hate, Selfishness, Rebellion, Apathy, and Fear all came up as possible answers. Good answers. Even some fairly interesting theology shuffling around in there. I prayed on it a bit and thought it over and after a while I decided perhaps LOVE [...]

Q. What makes you think Christianity is true? A.Now comes the difficult part, as Chesterton said; to put all these things down. It would take a book that others have written(1), so I suggest you read those and I will say only this: When one knows something so completely and believes it so fundamentally, it [...]

Are the existence of God and the presence of evil mutually exclusive? Does the death and suffering we witness in the world around us every day somehow speak against God? In these posts I argue that not only is it possible for God to have a morally sound reason for allowing suffering, but without God evil could not even be said to exist.

Question Short answer: No. Longer answer:  No. At least, probably not. We have an idea that He may have been born sometime in the late Spring or early Summer given the likely time of the census. But we really have no idea. A lawyer in the States using astronomy software probably (at least in my [...]

A Call of Christian Conscience Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

Intelligent Design A lot of people allege that the ID movement is nothing more than the old God-of-the-gaps idea, dressed in new clothing.  But is this the case?  I don’t think so, and I’ll tell you why.  IDers aren’t merely waiting for evolutionists to say “We don’t know” so that they can jump in and [...]

I’m currently reading “The Challenge of Jesus” by N T Wright, and he makes an interesting statement on p21. He says, “The Enlightenment notoriously insisted on splitting apart history and faith, facts and values, religion and politics, nature and supernature, in a way whose consequences are written into the history of the last two hundred [...]

Something here before we start our series needs to be said, and it is a most important point. Some roads in our apologetic walk should not be trod upon. You will quickly find yourself in a mire. The same can be said for scientific claims. As J.P. Moreland points out in the Saddleback conference, about [...]

I was listening to Bill Craig’s address at the Saddleback Apologetics Conference held at Saddleback Church in California yesterday (the whole conference is available here) and he was talking about the Kalam Cosmological Argument. This would have to be one of the first, maybe actually the first, philosophical arguments for God’s existence that I heard [...]

Image via Wikipedia At one Army base, the annual trip to the rifle range had been canceled for the second year in a row, but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One soldier mused, “Does it bother anyone else that the Army doesn’t seem to care how well we can shoot, [...]

Ok, we’ve finally arrived at what will likely be the most contentious issue (outside of the explanation) – the post-mortem appearances of Jesus after He was crucified. We will also examine the radical transformation in the lives of the disciples and others because that lends support to the resurrection hypothesis. Let’s begin with the creed [...]

This is probably my favorite painting of all time. Painted in 1872 by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (Иван Николаевич Крамской) – don’t know if you can see that, it’s cyrillic if you can’t – (1837(1837)-1887(1887)). This painting brings me to the point of tears, my heart aches for the humanity and humility that seeps through Kramskoi’s [...]

But woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean, which even those who have the Tree (for an ark) [cross] can scarcely pass over? Augustine, Confessions Book I [...]

Someone has asked “In your kind response to my question, you mention concern for our souls … almost as if differences in doctrine preclude being saved. I am a member of a conservative Baptist chruch … though I’m not sure for how much longer. We practice ecclesiastical separation … one of the reasons I’m contemplating [...]

A terribly volatile subject:It is most embarrassing, though probably shouldn’t be, to Christians when a politician professes a profound “faith in God” and then proceeds pandering to the opposite, blatantly immoral side, exploiting both to win votes. I say its embarrassing because to those voters (or mere onlookers) lost in the limbo of not knowing [...]

Asking for proof before you believe something, can stop you from receiving what God wants you to accept based on His Word. Thomas watched Jesus die. That’s hard evidence to refute. As a result, Thomas decided to believe only what he could see and verify. When your faith’s been shaken, you’re inclined to cling to [...]

From JSI’m new to Bible study, and can’t offer much, but Catholic dogmas like the Papacy just don’t have Scripture to back them up. The same with the perpetual virginity of Mary, mass, and so on. Indeed Catholics twist select verses to ‘fit’ their views, and to make their lies believable they go so far [...]