In less than an hour, I will be lecturing for The Bible & Beer Consortium in Fort Worth, and the event will be Livestreamed. The topic of my lecture is: The Biblical Worldview Against All Others. Here’s how you can join in: 1. create a free Livestream login ID 2. sign in and subscribe to “The Bible & Beer Consortium” channel 3. play the event when it begins, or jump in at any time Since I’m teetotal, I’ve been getting a …
Category: Worldview
Part Nine In the last installment of this series we were looking at a motto which is often misused by the Christian community, and which could mislead young people if not carefully explained. That motto was “All truth is God’s truth.” This time round I want to take a look at another slogan; a slogan which should not be adopted by Bible believers, even though some prominent and respected authorities use it. The phrase I have in mind is this: …
Review of James S. Spiegel, The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief, Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2010, 141 pages James Spiegel’s books are usually worth a gander because he writes about important but often neglected subjects. Witness his books on Hypocrisy and Providence. This book makes a helpful contribution to the usual run of apologetics resources by looking at some intriguing facts surrounding how atheists are made. Some atheists, of course, make the claim that atheism is the …
Part Eight Last time I asked whether the facts speak for themselves. My answer was that they do not, they are freighted with interpretations, whether right or wrong. In Part Seven I called attention to the temptation of attaching ourselves to slogans and ideas from the world. Before proceeding along the lines I started with in the last post, I want first to take two common but deadly slogans which Christians use and look at them, for though they sound …
This (re)post is a “stand-alone.” But I think it is rather important in its own way. I apologize for the formatting. “When the Christian sets forth his outlook he will stress the kind of God to whom he is committed, the nature of the world in relation to God, and the nature of man as God’s creature. The Christian God is totally self-sufficient, and in Him there is an equal ultimacy of unity and diversity (being Triune). Everything outside of …
Here is a very informative link to what the justices of the Supreme Court have said, pro and con, about their 5 to 4 decision to legalize Gay Marriage. http://erlc.com/article/50-key-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-same-sex-marriage-ruling The kind of “reasoning” employed by Justice Kennedy et al could and will be employed by pedophiles, polymorists, and even those who want to marry their dog. This is what godless law looks like. …
Part One God is not, in any of the great theistic traditions, merely some rational agent, external to the order of the physical universe, who imposes some kind of design upon an otherwise inert and mindless material order. He is not some discrete being somewhere out there, floating in the great beyond, who fashions nature in accordance with rational laws upon which he is dependent. Notice that Hart has in mind the general consensus among theistic religions about God, not …
Domain For Truth have posted some Presuppositional Apologetics materials by Dr. Brian Rickett. Worth checking out! https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/presuppositional-apologetics-2014-paschal-lectures-by-brian-rickett/ P.S. There is also a fine essay by SLIMJIM about teaching Systematic Theology. …
Part Seven Facing The Evidence I want to move forward a bit now to the subject of evidence. Probably many of you have heard the old dictum that scientists “follow the evidence wherever it leads.” Often scientists themselves promote this idea, and others catch on and parrot it themselves. It sounds very dignified. Almost pious. And, as philosophers of science like Thomas Kuhn and Michael Polanyi have shown, it is almost totally false. Several years ago, a well known, oft …
Part Six Since the Enlightenment, when unaided human reason was promoted to a place above the authority of the Holy Scriptures, it has been presumed that mankind can, at least in principle, explain himself and his surroundings without recourse to “the God hypothesis.” Although they couldn’t agree among themselves about how to rely on the human mind, they “knew” at least one thing: God – if He or it existed, would have to pass their examinations and fit within their …
