Bill Pratt | July 29, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Bart Ehrman and Mike Licona locked horns once again over the resurrection of Jesus on the Unbelievable? podcast last April. The two scholars discussed various elements of the New Testament that historians could use to reconstruct the life of Jesus for much of the radio show. In the final segment of [...]
Bill Pratt | July 27, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the last chapter of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, he introduces the metaphor of Middle World. The idea of Middle World is that the human sensory organs have only evolved in order to help humans survive in a world of medium-sized objects moving at relatively slow speeds (compared to the [...]
Darrell | July 25, 2011
Post Author: Darrell Over the past few years, I have heard several Christians I know utter statements such as, “I need to find out what job God wills for me to have.” or “I’m praying to find out who God wills for me to marry.” These statements are from people who believe that God has [...]
Darrell | July 22, 2011
Post Author: Darrell One of the foundational teachings of Mormonism is that shortly after the death of the Apostles, the bulk of mankind rejected the teachings of Christ and the Apostles, and the world fell away from the plain and precious truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As a result, the Church and the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The question of the origin of human rationality plagues the atheistic naturalist worldview – the worldview that says that all that exists ultimately is matter governed by the laws of physics. If every event that has ever occurred and ever will occur is determined by physical laws, then how are humans [...]
Bill Pratt | July 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent post, we discussed the fact that whenever a person makes something or someone their highest love in place of God, divisiveness occurs. Tim Keller, in stark fashion, also shows us what the other negative effects of placing our faith in these God substitutes can be. Here is an [...]
Bill Pratt | July 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I find that many non-believers are hopelessly confused about salvation by God’s grace. This confusion was amply illustrated the other day on an Unbelievable? podcast when the atheist debater challenged the Christian debater with the following: “Isn’t it true that the Christian God would have allowed Hitler into heaven if he [...]
Bill Pratt | July 13, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have just completed reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, which has provided me much material for the blog in recent days. In one powerful section of the book, Keller carefully draws out the distinction between one definition of “religion” and the Christian gospel. Today I pick up the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 11, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have just completed reading The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, which has provided me much material for the blog in recent days. In one powerful section of the book, Keller carefully draws out the distinction between one definition of “religion” and the Christian gospel. First, Keller clarifies what he [...]
Bill Pratt | July 8, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple of years ago, I asked one of my good atheist friends what he thought the biggest problem facing mankind was. His answer: our propensity to form exclusionary groups. He explained that everywhere he looked, people were grouping themselves and casting everyone not in their group as “the enemy.” He [...]
