Bill Pratt | September 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Southern Evangelical Seminary is hosting their annual apologetics conference on Nov. 13 and 14 in Charlotte, NC. The conference will feature speakers such as William Lane Craig, Chuck Colson, Dinesh D’Souza, Greg Koukl, Gary Habermas, Hank Hanegraaff, and Peter Kreeft (click here for the full speaker list). These men are all [...]
Bill Pratt | August 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Last night I watched the DVD, The Case for Faith, featuring Lee Strobel. The video deals with two issues from the book that bears the same name: 1) How can Jesus be the only way? and 2) How can God exist and there be so much evil, pain, and suffering? In [...]
Bill Pratt | August 23, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Any serious student of the Bible knows that the biblical authors employed a large variety of written literary genres. The Bible contains poetry, historical narrative, wisdom literature, personal letters, parables, theological and philosophical arguments, and much more. As an apologist, I have always been drawn to the theological and philosophical argumentation [...]
Bill Pratt | August 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Textual critics are the scholars who study the manuscript evidence for the New Testament and determine which readings among the various manuscripts are likely to be the original (see previous post for background). Although the vast majority of the variants are simple spelling or word order errors made by copyists, there [...]
Bill Pratt | August 5, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Check out the interesting video at Roger Morris’ Faith Interface blog. Well worth 3 minutes of your time.
Bill Pratt | August 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have been having an interesting discussion with a gentleman on the issue of the empty tomb. We’ve touched on some of the evidence, but I decided to present a brief synopsis of William Lane Craig’s arguments for the empty tomb (from Jesus under Fire). Here goes! The historical credibility of [...]
Bill Pratt | August 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Apologetics 315 blog has a very impressive archive of mp3 audio files of all sorts of Christian apologetics material. If you like to hear apologetics instead of just reading it, this is a great place to go. These guys are performing a valuable service for all of us with this [...]
Bill Pratt | July 26, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt See if you can follow this argument, which is one form of the cosmological argument. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause. The first premise should be uncontroversial. If something begins to exist, it needs a cause of its [...]
Bill Pratt | July 19, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Certainly the appearance of design in the natural world makes a strong case for the existence of a super-intelligent being, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Many people look at the world around them and marvel at its functionality and complexity. A common reaction to the functionality and complexity of the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 15, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Only if the skeptic is open to the existence of a God who can intervene in the affairs of the world. I have discussed the historical reliability of the New Testament with many skeptics over the years. The skeptics I typically speak to inevitably dismiss or downplay much of the historical [...]
