tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6444342078407593602012-01-23T17:34:09.500-05:00"faith seeking understanding"Rob Lundberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06997949869830111539noreply@blogger.comBlogger4181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-644434207840759360.post-37513903007363878672012-01-23T17:34:00.000-05:002012-01-23T17:34:09.523-05:00

By Alex Murashko | Christian Post Reporter Christians should understand that being able to give reasons for their faith is not merely an option – it's biblically mandated, says apologetics author and speaker Lee Strobel. To help Christians better explain and defend their faith, Strobel and ministry associate Mark Mittelberg have launched The Institute at Cherry Hills, an apologetics and

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Not too long ago I was conversing with a fellow believer about the role of apologetics in the church.  During that conversation, I shared a burden that has been with me since I was gloriously converted from skepticism some 31 years ago.   It is how God has wired me.   In fact right after my salvation experience, I wanted to KNOW why the Christian is true, because I found as a skeptic then, that

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On this the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded of these word from one of my favorite apologists, Francis Schaeffer, "State officials must know that we are serious about stopping abortion,...First, we must make definite that we are in no way talking about any kind of theocracy. Let me say that with great emphasis. Witherspoon, Jefferson, the American Founders had no idea of a

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Over the last few years people and even academic (secular) scholars have tried to show that the early church had corrupted the early Christian texts in order to portray Jesus as one of another kind of "messiah" or a phony Messiah at worst.  If we think of this for just a little bit, there are a few problems with this objection attempting to make the gospels a fable. Problem #1:  Why didn't the

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"Ministry in the third millennium must of necessity be an apologetic ministry. . . The minister who is not ready to exercise an apologetic  ministry in this generation is going to be roadkill in terms of ministry in post-secular, post-modern America"  ~ R. Albert Mohler, October 14, 1999 in a message at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY

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by Rob Lundberg One of the things that I like to do in conversations with fellow believers is to encourage them and see how much they know about why they believe what they do?  You might be thinking, what in the world are you doing that for?  My response is quite simple.  What is wrong with discussing the key facets about one’s faith.  Things like why one is a believer in Jesus Christ, why one

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“His body was for Him not a limitation, but an instrument, so that He was both in it and in all things, and outside all things, resting in the Father above. At one and the same time- this is the wonder - as man He was an human life, and as Word He was sustaining the life of the universe, and as Son He was in constant union with the Father” - Athanasius Merry Christmas to you and yours from

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"Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all

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In Memoriam, my courageous brother Christopher, 1949-2011 By Peter Hitchens 16 December 2011 (7:40 PM) How odd it is to hear of your own brother’s death on an early morning radio bulletin. How odd it is for a private loss to be a public event. I wouldn’t normally dream of writing about such a thing here, and I doubt if many people would expect me to. It is made even odder by the fact that

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Back in April of this year, I posted a blog on Christopher Hitchens' defiance of God and the afterlife in the face of death.  We have just received the news from some in our apologetics community that Christopher has passed.  Even though Christopher was an ardent defender of the "new atheism" we are saddened by his passing, and can only hope that his physician treating him for his esophageal

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by Rev. George Pitcher from Mail Online Blog, George Pitcher's Blog December 14, 2011 [Editor's Note:  If Richard thinks that he is going to succeed in eradicating Christianity, he either has not read history, or he is ignoring history.  I don't think we have to worry about "Richey" snubbing out Christianity.  I mean after all, Nero, Trajan, and even Voltaire tried to kill Christians (Nero,

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by Kaustuv Basu [Editor's Note:  When Muslim students interrupt a class and challenge in a disrespectful manner, it is time to reconsider the benefits of the American university.  Professor Derengowski got no support from the school. Can you blame him for resigning?  I sure can't! -- RL] Paul Derengowski had been teaching his world religions class as an adjunct at Tarrant County College in Fort

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“His body was for Him not a limitation, but an instrument, so that He was both in it and in all things, and outside all things, resting in the Father above. At one and the same time- this is the wonder - as man He was an human life, and as Word He was sustaining the life of the universe, and as Son He was in constant union with the Father”  Athanasius of Alexandria, "On the Incarnation"

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The Bible is back in, at least in Military hospitals.  The new "hate-theists" I am sure will not be too pleased.  So what!  Freedom in religon, freedom of religion is the Constitutional way.  Let freedom ring! - RL  Associated Press - 12/9/2011 7:40:00 AM BETHESDA, MD (AP) - The Walter Reed military hospital says it has rescinded a ban on Bibles or other religious materials being used or given

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It looks like the "American Communist's Liberties Union" (my name for the ACLU) has put its humanistic/communistic/atheistic talons into the Sumner County, Tennessee schools.  News watchdog  OneNews Now.Com reports the following: "The American Civil Liberties Union and the Sumner County, Tenn., Board of Education have agreed on policies to be followed in the aftermath of a suit claiming educators

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[Editor's Note:  Denyse O'Leary has hit the ball out of the park on this one.  During a few conversations with some folks, this article is one that needs attention for it very well could be a foreshadowing of what our culture will look like or is beginning to look like -- RL] by Denyse O'Leary Recently, a Canadian high school teacher broke the silence about where cultural relativism really

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“The justification of the wicked, of which Paul speaks, Rom. 4:5, ought not to be referred to an infusion or increase of habitual righteousness, but belongs to the remission of sins, as it is explained by the Apostle from David. Nay, it would not be a justification of the wicked, if it were used in any other sense than for a judicial absolution at the throne of grace. I confess that God in

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Our calling is to enjoy God as well as glorify Him.  Real fulfillment relates to the purpose for which we were made, to be in reference to God, to be in personal relationship with Him, to be fulfilled by Him, and thus to have an affirmation of life. Christianity should never give any onlooker the right to conclude that Christianity believes in the negation of life. Christianity is able to

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[Editor's Note:  A few blogs are posting this story and it comes from the Detroit News.  As you know, Michigan is becoming very sympathetic to the "Islamizing" of pocket cities like Detroit and Dearborn (in particular).  This folks is what we need to be concerned about, when a shariaic law is used to discriminate against an American citizen trying to do his job.  This needs to stop and stop NOW!]

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"So you turn on your television screen and before you know it, you're looking at a seduction yourself.  And instead of weeping at it, you're watching in intrigue as the story unfolds.  You watch illegitimacies transpire before your eye and mine, and because Hollywood has convinced us that it is entertainment we become entertained, rather than sitting there with a crushed and a broken heart and

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An "impersonal God"-- well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads -- better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap -- best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps, approaching an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband -- that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when

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Whenever Mormon missionaries come knocking at your door, one of the first things you will hear, after they introduce themselves as Elder "So and So" and Elder "Such and Such", is that they will tell you that they are from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a "Mormons" or "LDS").   Or you may be watching the political debates and hear all kinds of ad hoc rhetoric about politics

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Understanding why one believes the Christian faith knows no language barriers, no educational barriers and no gender barriers.   One of the ministries on the cutting edge for women being involved in the task of Christian apologetics is the International Society of Women in Apologetics (ISWA). ISWA is about encouraging women to be defenders of the faith and be about equipping their children and

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‘The immortality of the soul is a matter of such importance to us; it affects us so deeply that we must have lost our wits completely not to care what it is all about.  All our actions and our thoughts must follow such different courses depending on whether there are eternal rewards to hope for or not, that it is impossible to take a single step with sense and judgement unless it is determined by

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"Evangelicals have been living on the periphery of responsible intellectual existence.  The average Christian does not realized that there is an intellectual war going on in the universities and in the professional journals and scholarly societies.  Christianity is being attacked from all sides as irrational and outmoded, and millions of students, our future generation of leaders, have absorbed

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"The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life coming flowing in."                  ~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)

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Here is where that alleged massive improbability of theism is relevant. If theism is false, then (apart from certain weird suggestions we can safely ignore) evolution is unguided. But it is extremely likely, Dawkins thinks, that theism is false. Hence it is extremely likely that evolution is unguided—in which case to establish it as true, he seems to think, all that is needed is to refute those

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"Argument will always have a place in Christian apologetics. But it urgently needs to be supplemented by and appeal to imagery.  'Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts it is a way of illuminating the facts' (A.N. Whitehead). Arguments are precise; images are suggestive.  We need to mediate on those remarkable words of some Greeks who came to Philip: 'Sir we wish to see Jesus' (John 12:

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by Karla Dial Youth pastors and parents alike are well aware that when their kids graduate from high school and go off to college, their faith comes under assault — in and out of the classroom. But a three-year longitudinal study recently released by Fuller Theological Seminary shows that when it comes to keeping their Christian faith on campus, some factors are more critical than

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"To say you do not believe in God is very different from saying you lack belief about God. Anyone who has a point of view has belief. And atheists have a point of view. This makes them believers of a very particular stripe: They believe God does not exist." - Greg Koukl

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by Rob Lundberg Introduction One of the most popular objections for the existence of God coming from skeptics is the problem of evil.   The objection sounds something like this:  “How can there be a ‘God’ when there is all this evil in the world?  Where was God when 9/11 happened, the tsunamis wiped a whole coastline of Japan, and when tornadoes devastate a community?  On this tenth

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by Carl Trueman It seems a bit of a brouhaha is developing over the exclusion of (or, perhaps better, lack of invitation to) evangelical Protestants to participate in the religious ceremonies at the National Cathedral this weekend to commemorate 9/11.  The prayer vigil will, according to Fox News, include the dean of the Cathedral, the Bishop of Washington, a rabbi, a Buddhist nun and

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by Mike LiconaI have a confession: I failed as a parent to prepare my children to defend their Christian faith. My failure is especially embarrassing because I'm a Christian apologist.Since apologetics is a rational defense of the Christian faith, I travel around North America and sometimes outside it sharing the remarkable historical, scientific and philosophical evidence supporting the truth

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Here is more from the Christian Post about Cisco and now Bank of America committing the appeal to authority under the umbrella of intolerance toward Frank Turek and another Evangelical Bible believing Christian.  We need to pray for these fine men and others who are feeling the brunt of secular bigotry and intolerance toward those who hold to an absolute moral standard. The Christian Post U.S.|

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Having almost half my life involved in Student (Youth) Ministry on a local church scale and having a passion for the task of Christian apologetics, I thought this was a very important article put out by Christianity Today this week.  I am convinced that the problem with America is not America but the church.  With 75% to 88% of our kids walking away from the faith their first or second year after

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Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any

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"It is not just a provocative rumor that God has acted in history, but a fact worthy of our intellectual conviction.  The miracles of Christianity are not an embarrassment tot he Christian world view.  Rather they are a testimony to the compassion of God for human beings benighted by sin and circumstance." -- Gary Habermas in The Case for Faith, "Objection #2: Since Miracles Contradict Science

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"But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order.  Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guild and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians, by the populace.  Christus (Latin for referring to

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"I have two chief concerns (concerning "contemplative/listening" prayer). First, many Christians actually feel spiritually sub-standard and defeated because for them the heavens have been silent. This can be debilitating, and it’s profoundly unfair to them if their only shortcoming is entertaining a false expectation of what a relationship with God entails. The second danger is more troubling to

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There we have it in a nut shell. If all we have are sense-perceptions and images derived from sense, then we can never be aware of anything but a particular triangle, one that is either isosceles, scalene, or equilateral, one that has a certain size or area, one the lines of which are either black or some other color, and so on. What is here said of triangles can be said of everything else. We

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"The Bible teaches creation of different kinds, which are broader than modern 'species'.  There is much useful research on the created kinds, including hybridization studies.  Biblical creationists have long taught variation and even speciation from these kinds.  From the Ark account, they have long deduced that comparatively few Ark vertebrate kinds gave rise to a wide variety of species.

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Have you ever wondered if sharia law is coming to the United States?  In 2009, a Christian ministry was persecuted for asking questions at a booth which encouraged people to ask questions (being faulty accused by Arab Muslims proselytizing Muslims).  The last year 2010, four of the folks that went with Acts 17 Apologetics were put in jail overnight for being faulty accused of stirring up trouble

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"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on

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One of the favorite objections that come from the atheist is that they will not believe anything that is beyond the realm of science.  Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and others have asserted this kind of objection in one tone or another. William Lane Craig has debated the atheist Peter Atkins, where Atkins also made a similar assertion.  Well I have gone and put together a little

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"Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence

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Congratulations to Greg West for his first podcast.The Poached Egg Podcast: Lee Strobel on Apologetics and Evangelismby Greg WestHello Everyone! I’m very happy to present our very first podcast and thrilled about having Lee Strobel as my very first guest. I find this to be especially fitting since I give him most of the credit for getting me started in apologetics with his book, The Case for

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"The tree in the field is to be treated with respect. It is not to be romanticized as the old lady romanticizes her cat (that is, she reads human reactions into it). . . . But while we should not romanticize the tree, we must realize that God made it and it deserves respect because he made it as a tree. Christians who do not believe in the complete evolutionary scale have reason to respect nature

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As an elder in our church and as an apologist, I am reminded that there is a difference between the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and what I call "the Apologetic Mandate" (1 Peter 3:15-17).  This difference is found from conversations with folks on both sides of the scale have some confusion between evangelism and apologetics.  One group thinks that apologetics is irrelevant and that you

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"As Jesus hung upon the cross of Calvary, it was literally the sin of the world that was hanging there at that moment of history. The people who physically saw that crucifixion, whether or not they were Christ's followers, saw that it was not the justice but the injustice of man that was being carried out that day. In the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Christ, man's sin was more than visible:

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Have you ever realized that you have a  worldview?  It may be a Christian worldview, an atheistic worldview, or one that believes in many gods or that all is god.  You might be thinking, whoa wait a minute, what on earth is a worldview? There are a variety of definitions that are presented by different authors.  One of the more popular writers on the subject of worldviews is James Sire, who

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"The Platonist exhorted men to imitate GOD; the Stoic, to follow reason; the Christian, to the love of Christ. The later Stoics had often united their notions of excellence in an ideal sage, and Epictetus had even urged his disciples to set before them some man of surpassing excellence, and to imagine him continually near them; but the utmost the Stoic ideal could become was a model for

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As soon as Frank Turek's wrongful termination broke out, folks have been posting their addresses and responses to Cisco's bigotry.  The following posting is the more recent update from Max Andrews' Sententia blog regarding this example of hypocrisy and intolerance.  As we think about this, remember that those who cry for tolerance in the secular city are usually first to be intolerant to those

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First, it was our nation's renegade judges in the various judicial pockets of this country becoming the courts of last resort to move forward the legislating everything from abortion rights, hate crimes, free speech for Christians, and propositions nullifying that which is morally constitutional.  Last night the NY lawmakers sent the bill to legalize gay marriage in the Empire State of New York,

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"Occam's razor states that one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything, however, the simple theory must be able to account for or explain what needs explaining. It's not enough to have a simpler theory if you can't account for anything. Though we shouldn't add entities beyond what's needed, we also should not subtract entities beyond

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 by Mikel Del Rosario Maybe you’ve encountered well-meaning Christians who look down on the practice of providing evidence for the truth of Christianity. I used to get that a lot. How should you respond? Just Point to JesusWhat’s his example look like? Turns out, Jesus provided evidence—reasons to believe—in many different ways. For example, Luke said Jesus “gave many convincing proofs” of

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The world does not object to your being a Christian for a time, if she can but tempt you to cease your pilgrimage and settle down to buy and sell with her in Vanity Fair. The flesh will seek to ensnare you, and to prevent your pressing on to glory. “It is weary work being a pilgrim; come, give it up. Am I always to be mortified? Am I never to be indulged? Give me at least a furlough from this

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"Islam is willing to destroy for the sake of its ideology.  I want to suggest that the choice we face is really not between religion and secular atheism, as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and others have positioned it.  Secularism simply does not have the sustaining or moral power to stop Islam.  Even now, Europe is demonstrating that its secular worldview -- one that Harris

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It looks like things are heating up across the pond in Great Britain.  Here is a speech from a radical Muslim declaring that sharia is going to be imposed upon the cultures that Muslims are densely populating.  The culture war has turned from Christianity v secularism to secularism versus Islam.  Look for tomorrow's Sunday morning quote where I have Ravi Zacharias addressing this issue. It

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The refutation of falsehood and the establishment of truth both have piety for their object: not, indeed, that they are absolutely one and the same, but the one is necessary, as I have said, to all who believe, and to those who are concerned about the truth and their own salvation, but the other proves to be more useful on some occasions, and to some persons, and in dealing with some. (The

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Not long ago, Stephen Hawking made a statement that "a belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a 'fairy story' for people afraid of death".  Here is a man, who's body is plagued by ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease, a motor neurone disease) since the age of 21, and is being kept alive along with his brilliant mind by a machine which enables him to communicate through a voice synthesizer and types

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Over the past couple of weeks I have spent some time responding to folks who [were] concerned about Harold Camping's prophetic declaration of the "end of world" and the coming judgment which was to begin on May 21, 2011. Well, May 21, 2011 has come and gone.  The Church is still here. However the ramifications for this false prophecy is giving Christianity a "black eye", that Christianity's

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We … are not permitted to cherish any doctrine after our own will, nor to choose that which another person has introduced from their own private fancy. In the Lord's apostles we possess our authority. Even they did not choose to introduce anything from themselves, but faithfully delivered to the nations the discipline which they had received from Christ. If, therefore, even an angel from heaven

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An "impersonal God"-- well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads -- better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap -- best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps, approaching an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband -- that is quite another matter. There comes a moment when

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It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God's view. There is only one true liberty -- the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right. Don't get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you -- with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in

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Many times a Christian will be asked, how do you know that the Bible is true?  The response is often rooted in circular logic, sounding like, "I know the Bible is true, because the Bible says it is true?"  But that is nothing more than the committing the circular reasoning fallacy.  So how do you we know that the Bible is God's Word written to us?  How did the Bible come about to what we know

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I wonder if someone was reading the Qur'an, the Vedas or Upanishads what would happen.  I'll bet you nothing would happen.  Whip out a Bible and start reading on a public sidewalk which is a public forum and watch what happens here.  The DMV guard comes out, and makes a scene.  The brothers knowing that they are not doing anything wrong continue to read. The police come and put the "bracelets" on

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The following letter by Christopher Hitchens is posted on Roger Morris' Faith Interface blog. It is a letter that is addressed to this year’s American Atheists Convention. Hitchens, currently fighting a battle with esophageal cancer, was prevented from attending the April 2011 convention for health reasons. In his stead, he sent the following letter of encouragement to attendees at the

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“Having been crucified, He rose again the third day; (then) having ascended into the heavens, He sat ast the right hand of the Father; sent instead of Himself the power of the Holy Ghost to lead such as believe; will come with glory to take the saints to the enjoyment of everlasting life and of the heavenly promises, and to condemn the wicked to everlasting fire, after the resurrection of both

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What prompts this posting is a situation that happened this morning.  I was just finishing up doing some initial paperwork to get my day organized when I was greeted by a lady who came into the service department to have a state inspection done.  This customer was one that I had visited with in the past, and had learned that she was a member of a non-Christian cult, known as the Watchtower Bible

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"I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that Faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. For a moment, you see, it has seemed to rest on oneself: as a result, when you go away from that debate, it seems no stronger than that weak pillar. That is why we apologists

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Over the last fifteen decades or so, three major positions have emerged in terms of the relationship between evolutionary science and the Christian faith. The first position is an open embrace of evolutionary theory. This is the path chosen by theological liberals, who abdicate the biblical doctrine of creation and simply begin with the affirmation of evolution as a brute fact. In some cases,

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Last evening I had the chance to take in the online debate between William Lane Craig and Sam Harris, which took place at Notre Dame University.  The debate topic was "Is Good from God?"  A summation of the topic would be "are the foundations of moral values natural or supernatural"? There are some apologists who have been quick on getting out their summations and thoughts of the debate. 

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"Education, the great mumbo-jumbo and fraud of the age, purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility. For the most part it only serves to enlarge stupidity, inflate conceit, enhance credulity and put those subjected to it at the mercy of brain-washers with printing presses, radio and TV at their disposal."

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"This could very well prove to be the most important and strategic challenge that faces the Christian community at this moment in history. I believe that if we fail to understand the importance, challenge, and opportunity confronting the church, there will be deep regrets…Christians, especially Christian leaders, have two choices. We can ignore the trends by burying our heads in the sand and

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"At the momentous chapter in the ongoing story of the Christian Church and the modern world, one of America's greatest spiritual movements is in danger of losing its way or missing its moment.  To be nominal Christian is a contradiction in terms.  Therefore, to be an evangelical Christian at the close of the second millenium is a high privilege and a solemn responsibility" -- Os Guinness

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"Evangelism and apologetics are twin pillars upon which the outreach of the church is built. The two may be and must be distinguished, but they ought never be separated. They form a two-pronged attack against the fortress of hell and a double-front of defense against the onslaught of paganism….In the early church the work of the apologist was two-fold. Firstly, the apologists had the task of

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This week's Sunday morning quote actually comes from agnostic by the name of Robert Jastrow. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same. . .     "This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians.  They have always believed the word of the Bible.  But we scientists did not expect to find

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"Sadly enough, there is a kind of an anti-intellectualism among many Christians: spirituality is falsely pitted against intellectual comprehension as though they stood in a dichotomy. Such anti-intellectualism cuts away at the very heart of the Christian message. Of course, there is a false intellectualism which does destroy the work of the Holy Spirit. But it does not arise when men wrestle

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"Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of

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We know that one school of psychology already regards religion as a neurosis. When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to the government, what is to hinder the government from proceeding to 'cure' It? Such 'cure' will, of course, be compulsory; but under the humanitarian theory it will not be called by the shocking name of Persecution. No one will blame us for being Christians, no

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My family and I live in a interesting setting when it comes to our housing.  Back in 2003, we literally landed in a townhouse community where the neighborhood has ever reflected a transitionary nature.  How does it change?  Families in renting or leasing scenarios either change residences due to not being able to pay the rent, been evicted because of negligence or not following housing authority

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Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong. Just as what we may call holiness without love is not God's kind of holiness, so also what we may call love without holiness, is not God's kind of love...A false spirit of accommodation

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This year I am going to try and keep up to speed on our podcast postings in front of our readers.  Let me invite you to share with your friends and family our podcast, blog and ministry as a whole.  We would love to come to your church or group to present a talk on issues that are confronting the Christian church today. Here is a sample of January's podcasts Real Issue Podcast Episode #21 The

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It seems to me that Islam's sharia is gaining more of a foothold in a Europe, through the imposition of sharia law infiltrating the civil governments of various European states.  Austria is now on the board and has been invaded.  The following is the first paragraph of the article. The “hate speech” trial of the Austrian housewife and anti-Islam activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff resumed at a

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"I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known...not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus." ~ Pinchas Lapide, Orthodox Jewish scholar,

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A game is on, at the other end of this infinite distance, and heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager? According to reason you cannot leave either; according to reason you cannot leave either undone... Yes, but wager you must; there is no option, you have embarked on it. So which will you have. Come. Since you must choose, let us see what concerns you least. You have two things to lose:

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The spiritually mature Christian is a wise person. And a wise person person has the savvy and skill necessary to lead an exemplary life and to address the issues of the day in a responsible, attractive way that brings honour to God. Wisdom is the fruit of a life of study and a developed mind. Wisdom is the application of knowledge gained from studying both God’s written Word and His revealed

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"If we are going to join the battle in a way that has any hope of effectiveness -- with Christians truly being salt and the light in our culture and our society -- then we must do battle on the entire front.  We must not finally even battle on the front for freedom, and specifically not only our freedom.  It must be on the basis of Truth.  Not just religious truths, but the Truth of what the

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"It is not unusual these days for married couples to celebrate a wedding anniversary by renewing their vows.  After my experience in Japan and a half a century of subsequent involvement in evangelical missions worldwide I suggest that evangelical apologists and missionaries 'renew their vows.'  In the early centuries of the Christian era, Irenaeus, Justing Martyr, Tertullian, Augustine, and many

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"I couldn't put it down.  I read through the rest of the Gospels, and realized this wasn't a handbook for the American Nazi Party; it was an interaction between Jesus and the Jewish community.  I got the book of Acts and -- this was incredible! -- they were trying to figure out how the Jews could bring the story of Jesus to the Gentiles.  Talk about a role reversal!...God, I've got to come to the

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"Apologists most frequently use rational and evidential argumentation to demonstrate and reinforce the truths of Scripture.  I personally have an inclination toward this kind of discourse. Arguments presented in this way were very influential on me and my coming to love God with all my mind.  However, not everyone, indeed probably not most people, are moved toward religious truth in this way.  

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Let no one wonder if we have understood Jesus to be announced in the Gospel under a plurality of names of good things. If we look at the things by the names of which the Son of God is called, we shall understand how many good things Jesus is, whom those preach whose feet are beautiful. One good thing is life; but Jesus is the life. Another good thing is the light of the world, when it is true

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This is the final installment in this series on the First Principles.  This final one is equally important to everything up to this point.  Before moving to defining the First Principle of Law.  If we have bad laws, then it is a product of bad politics.  If we have bad politics then it is safe to conclude that there are bad ethics involved.  And then finally if we have bad ethics, these must stem

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"What is genuinely appalling is not suffering as much as human wickedness.  But can there be any such thing as horrifying wickedness if naturalism were true?  I don't see how.  There can be such a thing only if there is a way rational creatures are supposed to live, obliged to live, and the force of normativity is such that appalling and horrifying nature of genuine wickedness is its inverse.  

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WHAT IS THE FOREMOST LAW OF BIOLOGY? The word “biology” literally means the science or study of life. When we study biology, it doesn’t take long to encounter the word species. The choice of this term, as opposed to some other, is based on the law of specificity. It is the reciprocal function of the second law of thermodynamics. This law is analogous to turning back the hand of time and getting

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"Apologetics may be dismissed by some as being "old paradigm" or somehow counterproductive.  As for youth ministry, apologetics is often assumed not to be relevant to the lives of teens or too complicated.  I disagree.  I think we set the intellectual bar way too low.  Youth ministry should promote (among other things) critical thinking skills and the embrace of a biblical view in all areas of

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WHAT IS THE FOREMOST LAW OF SCIENCE? The second law of thermodynamics. This law states that the amount of usable energy in a closed isolated system runs down. (A closed isolated system is a finite system that has no interference from the outside). Biblical References: This law is clearly seen throughout the Bible. As we move away from the source of all energy and life, God, we experience

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Here is the first segment off of YouTube showing the debate between Bill Dembski and Christopher Hitchens.  If you click on the title or click on the Eye on Apologetics blog site to see the entire debate in one setting.  The debate was held at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano TX.  Those in the audience were a good portion of the Prestonwood Christian Academy.  It was a practice session for the

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Agency is the Achilles' heel of scientific materialism.  If materialists eliminate agency, they undermine the rationality of science.  But agency also fails to reduce to materialistic categories.  So, if we want to preserve the rationality of science and follow the evidence wherever it leads, we must conclude that agency is an irreducible causal category.  And that is precisely the claim of

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