Bill Pratt | May 12, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Re-post from Jan 2009 God, people, and things. That is the proper order of importance. If you look at those three, I think that our ability to exhaustively know each one decreases from God to people to things. Our knowledge of an infinite God is very small compared to all that [...]
Bill Pratt | April 21, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Re-post from April 12, 2009 We celebrate Easter because it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus was killed by crucifixion on a Friday and then actually came back to life on the following Sunday. Some may ask, “So what?” Why is it important that Jesus rose from the [...]
Bill Pratt | December 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Bible clearly teaches that God is morally perfect and holy, that he hates sin. Habakkuk 1:13 says that God is too pure to look on evil. Christians often say that God cannot allow any sin in his presence. But, this is not the whole story. There are also several instances [...]
Bill Pratt | December 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Although the author did not record his name within the text itself (a common practice in the ancient world), the first book found in the New Testament (NT) has historically been attributed to the writing of Matthew, a tax collector and one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. Although some NT [...]
Bill Pratt | December 3, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt (re-posted from last year) New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III has written a brief article that discusses the birth narrative as conveyed in Luke 2. Witherington reminds us that the modern version of Jesus’ birth is not exactly faithful to the biblical account. “Like works of art that have been lacquered [...]
Bill Pratt | March 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If Jesus is God, and God is uncaused, immaterial, omniscient, omnipotent, and eternal (and lots of other things), then don’t we have a problem with Jesus being a real man who lived in 1st century Palestine? After all, Jesus grew tired, but God doesn’t get tired; Jesus sometimes didn’t know things, [...]
Bill Pratt | February 23, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common accusations hurled at Christians is arrogance. If Christians believe that only they are right about who God is, that is arrogant. Usually, but not always, I hear this accusation from atheists. They say something like, “If you think that the Christian God is the only true [...]
Bill Pratt | February 16, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt For each of us there is one person who we always forgive every time they do something wrong. There is one person who we always give the benefit of the doubt. There is one person who we always judge with their intentions in mind rather than just their actions. There is [...]
Bill Pratt | February 5, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt As Christians we all agree that we want to follow God’s will for our lives, but there are two general approaches to following God’s will that I’ve seen in evangelicalism. The first approach operates under the premise that God has a specific will for each and every one of our actions [...]
Bill Pratt | January 30, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have previously written a post on why all religions cannot be true, but I wanted to revisit this topic and add another perspective. Religions are commonly composed of three parts: code, cult, and creed. Code is the moral code that a religion teaches. For Christianity, it would include “love your [...]
