Bill Pratt | March 31, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many Christians, as they read the book of Joshua, are uncomfortable with the accounts of conquest that are recorded there. The conquest of Jericho is the first in Canaan for the Israelites. The biblical writer describes the battle of Jericho this way in Josh. 6:20-21: When the trumpets sounded, the army [...]
Bill Pratt | March 24, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you’re reading a Bible passage, when should you start thinking about how it applies to your life? Many of us think that this is the first thing we should do after reading a passage, but I want to discourage that way of thinking. Before thinking about how a passage applies [...]
Bill Pratt | March 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many of the people I know who reject God or who have crafted a God that makes no demands on them have a fundamental problem with authority. They don’t want anybody telling them what to do. For a person who wants complete autonomy, who chafes at the thought of anyone having [...]
Bill Pratt | March 14, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In most cases, fossils cannot give us ancestry, according to paleontologist Donald Prothero. This statement, coming from Prothero, shocked me when I first read it, because it seems like fossil news headlines always make claims about ancestry, but here is Prothero, a staunch supporter of evolution, disagreeing. Let me explain, lest [...]
Bill Pratt | March 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Philosophers who study how we know things (epistemologists) have long debated whether we have innate or intuitive knowledge. This kind of knowledge is often referred to as a priori knowledge. It is knowledge that one has prior to or independently of sense experience. It cannot be proven by experience. The debate [...]
