Bill Pratt | April 29, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Another chapter from Joseph Owens’ book An Elementary Christian Metaphysics urged me to write. This chapter has Owens explaining why he believes humans have an immaterial soul. He first points out that “actions and reactions in the material universe take place under the conditions of singularity.” He explains that an “individual [...]
Bill Pratt | April 27, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt This post is a few months belated, but better late than never. Every year, Access Research Network does a phenomenal job collecting science news that bears on the intelligent design and evolution debate. For 2010, they have again assembled a great list. If you are at all interested in this debate, [...]
Bill Pratt | April 25, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have followed the intelligent design (ID) movement for several years now and there is an error that I’ve seen opponents of ID make over and over. The error is confusing the idea of common descent with the idea of random mutation and natural selection. Common descent refers to the idea [...]
Bill Pratt | April 21, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Re-post from April 12, 2009 We celebrate Easter because it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus was killed by crucifixion on a Friday and then actually came back to life on the following Sunday. Some may ask, “So what?” Why is it important that Jesus rose from the [...]
Bill Pratt | April 14, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt OK, I admit we’re in deep waters with this question, but I’ve been studying epistemology, the investigation of human knowledge, for the last few months and I have run across a short section in a book I’m reading that struck me as particularly profound. Before I discuss that section, I want [...]
Bill Pratt | April 11, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1, there are additional lines of evidence showing that Jesus’s disciples thought he was God. Again, this material is excerpted from theologian Norman Geisler’s book, Systematic Theology, Volume 2. Picking up where we left off, the third line of evidence is that the disciples attributed the powers of [...]
Bill Pratt | April 4, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple of years ago, I wrote seven posts on the subject of whether Jesus claimed to be God. At the end of those posts, I promised to follow up with an additional series of posts discussing whether Jesus’s disciples thought he was God. Better late than never, I suppose. Here [...]
