Apologists Must Deal With Worldviews From time to time one encounters an amateur atheist who is conversant enough with his literature to provide a worthwhile mental workout while not descending into ad hominen asides. Just such a person is “Gary.” Gary, as with not a few self-dubbed atheists, is a former Roman Catholic – bruised knuckles and all. Gary has spouted forth a small avalanche of paper which, by putting aside the rant and concentrating on the main issues, provides …
Category: Apologetics
1. The Fallibility of the Gods In the previous article we noted that the creator gods of the ancient pagan world were very “un-God-like.” None of them had the attributes of the Bible’s God; consequently none of them could do what the Bible’s God could do – viz. create out of nothing and govern as transcendent Lord of what He has made (cf. Psa.33:6, 9-11). The pagan gods were engaged in daily routines and activities much like humans. …
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions, by David Berlinski, New York: Crown Forum, 2008. For those who have not read anything by David Berlinski, I should say right off the bat that he is one of the wittiest yet incisive writers on contemporary science I know. This provocative book is a well aimed critique of those atheist scientists and their followers whose egos have prompted them to step over into philosophical questions about ultimate issues without much forethought …
The Banner of Truth magazine, published in the U.K. has just reprinted Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s Review of Cornelius Van Til’s Christianity and Barthianism. For those readers who are maybe put-off by Van Til’s book, this review will at least give you an idea of its contents. May I just add that my own opinion of this important book is that: 1. it is very informed and needs to be heeded by evangelicals today, and, 2. the fact that so many …
[T]he probability of finding a functional protein by chance alone is a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion times smaller than the odds of finding a single specified particle among all the particles in the universe. – Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell, 212. …
Introduction There are a number of creation myths and many flood accounts in the ancient world, but only four are primeval accounts; others seeming to stem from them. The four are listed by Egyptologist Kenneth A. Kitchen as the Sumerian King List, the Atrahasis Epic, the Eridu Genesis, and the Biblical Genesis. The first three, the Sumerian King list, the Atrahasis Epic, and the Eridu Genesis account predate Moses by approximately 300 to 500 years. But most …
This is a repost from 2007. It’s short but addresses an issue close to my heart. Too often theology is done for itself not as a search for Truth. Theology, if it is anything, is the search for and categorization of truth. As committed Christians we assert that biblical truth sets the standard of what is the truth – it is our ultimate authority. We must always allow God to say what He has to say and be scrupulous in …
I thought you might enjoy reading down this list. I hope it gives a boost to your faith. It is all very well to speak about Bible History, but can the claim be substantiated? Does the Old Testament stand up under scrutiny? This list represents a broad sampling of its impressive credentials in this area. It is among the rubble and ruins of the ancients (where Scripture would soon fall foul if it erred), that it is so very impressive. …
As I am busying myself recording and editing about 60 lectures on “Eschatology” and on “The Canon” I thought I would re-post this article about one of my bete noirs – Natural Theology. I have kept the old comments up too. Any discussion of the doctrine of Divine revelation or of apologetic method has to incorporate the matter of natural theology. Is natural theology a legitimate exercise when its foundational tenets are viewed in the light of Scripture? In the …
3. The Structure of Reality. It cannot be both ways. Reality is either what the Bible says it is, or it is not. If it is not, then Christianity is not only mistaken on one or two particulars, it is totally false. Christianity has a certain view of the world as the creation of the Triune God. All the scientific laws discovered by men were discovered because, consciously or not, men thought God’s thoughts after Him. As Bahnsen explained, “The …
