Bill Pratt | June 27, 2009
I just finished a detailed study of the seven miraculous signs Jesus performed in the Gospel of John. If you don’t recall, they are: The Miracle of Turning Water Into Wine The Miracle of Healing the Nobleman’s Son The Miracle of Healing the Man at the Pool of Bethesda The Miracle of Feeding Five Thousand [...]
Bill Pratt | June 24, 2009
Roger Morris, on the Faith Interface blog, analyzes a recent study that finds British teens taking a decidedly negative view of religion. The reason I say it’s no surprise is that I have interacted with many British adults during my career in the semiconductor industry, and the majority are apathetic or hostile toward religion. They [...]
Bill Pratt | June 14, 2009
If you are a person who says this about Christianity, excuse me for being skeptical. God performed miracles through Moses, and yet Pharaoh did not believe. God performed miracles through Elijah, and yet Jezebel did not believe. Jesus performed numerous miracles that confirmed his power over sickness, weather, and even death. Ultimately he rose from [...]
Bill Pratt | June 2, 2009
I read this over on GeoChristian’s Blog. It doesn’t advance the argument for Christianity at all, but I think it does give the reader some insight into the minds of the crop of new atheist writers who have been attacking Christianity for the last few years. Rev. Cwirla, in his review of the Charlotte Allen [...]
Bill Pratt | June 1, 2009
Often I hear non-Christians characterize the Christian God as a bloodthirsty tyrant who killed his own son (Jesus) on the cross. Jesus, they claim, was sacrificed against his will in order to fulfill the bizarre requirements of his sadistic father. “I cannot,” they say, “worship a God that would kill his own son!” The first [...]
Bill Pratt | May 11, 2009
There is no doubt that religious people throughout history have killed people, at least partly because of their religious beliefs. Even Christians have been guilty. But many prominent atheists accuse religion, and especially Christianity, of mass killings and argue that if the world could rid itself of religious belief and turn to atheism, we would create a [...]
Bill Pratt | April 30, 2009
Not very well, unless you believe that fairy tales from evolution’s past count as evidence. This excerpt comes from A. N. Wilson in a recent article he wrote for the New Statesman. The phenomenon of language alone should give us pause. A materialist Darwinian was having dinner with me a few years ago and we [...]
Darrell | March 31, 2009
I attend a Referral Network group every Tuesday morning and this morning a local Chiropractor gave a short presentation on her business. This wonderful lady (who is a great Chiropractor by the way!!) made a few comments which amused me – in a good way. When talking about the human body she kept referring to “it’s design”. In speaking about [...]
Darrell | March 29, 2009
In my conversations with atheists and agnostics some have made the statement ”the only way we can know if something is true or not is through empirical testing”. Many then follow by saying this ”disproves” the knowledge of the existence of God… saying “since we can’t empirically test the existence of God we cannot know for sure He exists”. While this line [...]
Bill Pratt | March 23, 2009
All one needs to do is study Peter Singer, the eminent ethics professor at Princeton University. He is one of the few who have actually taken atheism to some of its uncomfortable conclusions (I think Nietzsche also did this in the 19th century). Check out this post over at GeoChristian to find out what Singer believes. [...]
