Bill Pratt | August 30, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The NOAA has released a new report on global temperatures which indicates that there is a warming trend. Since few people will read the full report, NOAA prepared a synopsis of the findings that is only 10 pages long. I want to do two things in this post. First, I want [...]
Bill Pratt | August 26, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most compelling apologetic arguments for the truth of the resurrection of Jesus is the fact that most of his closest followers were martyred for their beliefs. Since these followers would have had first-hand knowledge of whether he actually did come back from the dead, their willingness to be [...]
Bill Pratt | August 21, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 3 of this series, we started to compare New World slavery to Old Testament (OT) slavery and we found that there were radical differences. Let’s continue with the comparison. The third characteristic of New World slavery has to do with the treatment of slaves. From part 2 of the [...]
Bill Pratt | August 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 2 of this series, we reviewed 5 characteristics of New World slavery. Starting in part 3, we will compare the 5 characteristics of New World slavery with Hebrew slavery in the Law (first five books of the Old Testament). Before we get started, a couple of general comments need [...]
Bill Pratt | August 16, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series of posts, we introduced the idea that there are many different kinds of slavery. When most Americans ponder slavery, though, we are thinking of the southern United States before the Civil War. So what was slavery like in the southern United States? The Christian Thinktank [...]
Bill Pratt | August 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Someone recently asked me about slavery in the Bible, and I decided it was time to take this topic on. In order to stay focused, I want to answer a very specific question: does God support the institution of slavery in the Torah (first five books of the Old Testament)? The [...]
Darrell | August 11, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Beckwith and Koukl’s sixth fatal flaw reads as follows: Relativists can’t hold meaningful moral discussions. To the relativist, morals are formulations that exist only in the minds of human beings, and as a result, objectively true moral standards do not exist. Consequently, there is no way to compare and contrast different moral points [...]
Bill Pratt | August 9, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Philosopher Peter Kreeft gives a brilliant overview of the argument from design in the audio below. The audio is excerpted from one of Kreeft’s podcasts where he lectures on five arguments for the existence of God. I beg you to set aside just 7 minutes to listen to this audio. You [...]
Darrell | August 6, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Beckwith and Koukl’s fourth fatal flaw is as follows: Relativists can’t make charges of unfairness or injustice. As a concept, unfairness hinges upon an external standard of right. By definition, something is considered fair or unfair when it is in line or out of line with an external standard of right. Unfortunately, to the moral [...]
Darrell | August 4, 2010
Post Author: Darrell According to Beckwith and Koukl, the second fatal flaw of Moral Relativism is as follows: Relativists are incapable of complaining about the problem of evil. The problem of evil is commonly used by atheists to argue against the existence of God. The argument is often structured as follows: 1) An all powerful [...]
