Bill Pratt | March 7, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt Karl Marx certainly thought so. Even today, the idea of economics being the only important driving force behind all human activities is still fashionable in some circles. Although economics certainly plays a part in many human decisions, I hardly think it is the primary motive for human behavior. I would point [...]
Bill Pratt | February 15, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt G. K. Chesterton, in one of his masterpieces, The Everlasting Man, writes a powerful defense of something which should not need a defender. That man is truly exceptional seems exceptionally obvious to all but the most unexceptional. Here is Chesterton summing up his case in a way that only he can: [...]
Bill Pratt | February 13, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the chief answers that Christianity provides is the answer to the question: “Why is man unique?” The Bible answers this question right at the start in the Book of Genesis. Man is unique because man is the only earthly creature made in the image of the Creator himself. No [...]
Bill Pratt | December 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Because of some public statements Hitler made about Christianity, some have argued that he was a Christian himself, notwithstanding the fact that all of the the atrocities he committed were blatantly contrary to everything Jesus and his apostles ever taught. Nevertheless, these people maintain that he considered himself a Christian. David [...]
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 [...]
Bill Pratt | July 6, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt If there is no benevolent and omnipotent God, then man seems to be the only viable solution to solving man’s problems. We have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps because there is nobody to help us. Nowadays it seems laughable to think, after all we’ve been through in the last [...]
Bill Pratt | June 8, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most striking evidences for the Christian God is the uniqueness of man among all of the animals. God exalts in The Book of Genesis, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of [...]
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 | June 7, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Bible teaches that we are (see Rom. 2). Virtually every adult human being seems to have the same basic sense of right and wrong. We all agree that cowardice is wrong, that love is good, that killing the innocent is wrong. You will be hard pressed to find a culture [...]
Bill Pratt | May 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Christian view of man holds a tension. On the one hand, we are to understand that God created man in his image, meaning he gave us rational minds, a will, moral values, and so forth. Since we are unique among his creation in possessing his image, this surely guarantees our [...]
