Bill Pratt | January 10, 2009
This according to research published by Michael McCullough and Brian Willoughby. Thanks to Wes Milam for bringing this article to my attention in the NY Times. The researchers found that those who are intrinsically and strongly religious just have more self-control than those who don’t. They are better able to withstand temptation and are less impulsive. The non-religious, [...]
Bill Pratt | January 7, 2009
Last time I checked, scientists thought the earth was about 4.5 billion years old. When I read the following paragraph from a prominent business author, I had trouble with his evolutionary math. Maybe it’s just me, but you see if you can fit 4.5 billion years into his account of evolution. It took several billion [...]
Bill Pratt | January 7, 2009
I can remember having this debate with my friend, Mike, when I was in college. He argued that humans are no different from other animals except for our larger brains. There is nothing we can do that animals can’t do. Animals just do things in a more primitive and basic fashion. This always struck me as [...]
Darrell | January 6, 2009
One of the central doctrines of Mormonism is that every human being is a spirit child of God. They teach that we were each born as a spirit child of Heavenly Father and one of His wives. This teaching is central to the faith as it lays the ground work for further doctrines such as eternal [...]
Bill Pratt | January 5, 2009
The folks at Reclaiming the Mind are offering an online theology program, starting next week. I have not actually taken any of their courses, but I have heard very positive things about the curriculum, so I commend a visit to their website.
Bill Pratt | January 5, 2009
I recently posted on the essential doctrines of Christianity, and I left out a doctrine that probably surprised many traditional Christians: inerrancy. The reason I left this doctrine out is because I was defining an essential doctrine as one that must be true for salvation. A person does not have to believe that the Bible [...]
Bill Pratt | January 4, 2009
I just saw a fascinating documentary on Fox, called Escape from Hamas, about an up-and-coming leader of Hamas becoming disillusioned with the teachings of Hamas and radical Islam. The documentary tells how he, Mosab Hassan, converted to Christianity and is now living in America and hoping to spread the word about the extremism within Hamas and [...]
Bill Pratt | January 2, 2009
Som people believe that if you are an evangelical, then you must believe that God created the earth and the entire universe in a six day period of time, about 6,000 – 10,000 years ago. In addition, you must believe that the entire universe was also created 6,000 – 10,000 years ago. This view is known [...]
