Bill Pratt | November 30, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve mentioned Paul Copan’s book Is God a Moral Monster? before, but I ran across this video clip where historical Jesus scholar Mike Licona interviews Copan about alleged genocide in the Old Testament. Copan summarizes some very key arguments from his book during this informative clip.
Bill Pratt | November 28, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of our goals with this blog, from the beginning, was to try to answer honest questions that people have about the Christian faith. Why do I stress the word honest? Because one of the first things you learn when you write a blog about ultimate issues (i.e., God, morality , meaning [...]
Bill Pratt | November 25, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Please spend 10 minutes watching this talk by Alexander Tsiaras where he takes the audience through a visualization of the growth of a human being from conception to birth. It is truly amazing!
Bill Pratt | November 24, 2011
Please remember to thank the one person who makes your life worth living, the Lord Jesus Christ. “I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.” Psalm 69:30
Bill Pratt | November 23, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Thomas, the disciple of Jesus, is famous for the following statement: ”Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.” There have always been people like Thomas who demand that they directly experience [...]
Bill Pratt | November 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Patti, a reader of Tough Questions Answered, asked the other day if Jesus lied to his brothers in John 7:8-10. She claims that an atheist pointed these verses out to her. So, what’s going on here? Must we read these verses in John 7 as Jesus purposely deceiving his brothers? First, [...]
Bill Pratt | November 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Immanuel Kant is a famous philosopher who lived in the eighteenth century. One of Kant’s most lasting contributions to philosophy was in the field of ethics. He believed that moral laws could be derived from reason, and that all immoral behavior was, therefore, unreasonable or irrational. Kant argued for the idea of [...]
Darrell | November 9, 2011
Post Author: Darrell Many of those in the Protestant and Catholic traditions are familiar with the Penal Substitutionary Theory of the Atonement (hereafter referred to as Substitutionary Atonement). However, I have found many to be unfamiliar with the predominant atonement view held by those in the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is commonly called The Recapitulation [...]
Bill Pratt | November 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve been reading the famous eighteenth century philosopher Immanuel Kant lately. Kant’s theory of knowledge only allowed for human knowledge to extend to those things we can directly experience through our senses. Kant argued that we could not have direct experience of our self, the cosmos, or God. Kant’s empiricism ruled out rational knowledge of [...]
Bill Pratt | November 4, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I recently wrote a series of three blog posts discussing the argument to design from analogy. I concluded that this approach to arguing that life is designed is a live option, but that it falls short of the kind of certainty we would like the argument to have. Philosopher of science [...]
