Bill Pratt | November 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the most recent edition of the Christian Research Journal, Jay W. Richards addressed this topic. The verses that have led some to make the claim that the early church was communist are Acts 4:32-35. But is that the correct interpretation of these verses? If so, is communism the ideal for [...]
Bill Pratt | November 26, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A friend of mine recently forwarded me excerpts of an email sent around by his company’s HR department on Paganism. The email article was entitled “The Pagan in the next cubicle (or office, or lab).” This is a major US company with thousands of employees. Here is what he sent me: [...]
Bill Pratt | November 24, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the opening pages of G. K. Chesterton’s classic The Everlasting Man , he explores the implications of prehistoric cave paintings discovered by modern-day humans. What do these paintings tell us about primitive man? Is he merely an advanced ape (as in the evolutionary account) or is there a real difference [...]
Bill Pratt | November 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Between AD 1258 and 1264, Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa contra Gentiles, a book at least partially aimed at arguing for the truth of Christianity against the falsehood of Islam. Recall that Islam was founded and spread in the seventh century, about 600 years before Thomas wrote. In an interesting section of [...]
Bill Pratt | November 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common arguments you will hear that Darwinian evolution must be true is the “Junk DNA” argument. It goes like this: There are significant stretches of the human genome that appear not to code for any biological function. This is what you would expect if millions of years [...]
Bill Pratt | November 17, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Bible contains numerous proverbial sayings (not just in the Book of Proverbs), and these sayings have some characteristics that must be kept in mind when reading them. These characteristics can also be found in non-biblical proverbial literature. Biblical scholar Walter Kaiser lists a few of these characteristics in his book [...]
Bill Pratt | November 15, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some of the atheists that have commented on the blog have expressed skepticism at the existence of Jesus, claiming that there is very little or even no good evidence for him being a real historical figure. My response has been to point out that Jesus is the most well attested historical [...]
Bill Pratt | November 12, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some Christians seem to think so, based on John 14:26, John 15:26, and John 16:12-13. Here are each of these passages: “But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” [...]
Bill Pratt | November 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt My good friend, Wes, sent me a video link (see below) because he knew it would drive me crazy! (maybe he’s not my friend, after all) The video features a guy named Lamar talking about illegal activities that people give a pass to. The speaker mentions several activities that he thinks [...]
Bill Pratt | November 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I just finished reading a book called Evolution by Donald Prothero, a paleontologist. The book’s main purpose is to chronicle the fossil evidence for the evolution of animal life. Prothero, as an expert in this field, seems to do a reasonable job of this throughout the book, although every tenth sentence [...]
