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 | 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 [...]
Bill Pratt | January 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt About a month ago, columnist Russ Douthat wrote a brilliant column about pantheism, the religion of Hollywood. Pantheism is the belief that the world is God and God is the world. The pantheist God is not personal, but is Nature itself. Douthat notes that this view of God has been popular [...]
Bill Pratt | January 20, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt By now I’m sure most of you have heard about Brit Hume’s comments regarding Tiger Woods. After listening to what he said, I had a hard time understanding the hysteria. One person told me that Christians ought not be putting down other religions in order to gain converts (Hume mentions that [...]
Bill Pratt | December 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’m sure you’ve seen these bumper stickers, the ones that say “Coexist” with the letters being formed by the symbols of various world religions. My problem is that I don’t know what message this sticker is trying to convey. I’ve come up with the following possibilities: All religions are equally true. [...]
Bill Pratt | December 24, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many people wonder why we don’t see miracles such as the parting of the sea, the raising of the dead, and people walking on water. It seems like miracles were pretty common in the Old and New Testaments, but today nothing like that seems to happen. Why? First of all, I [...]
Bill Pratt | December 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I say “yes.” I believe that God does give every person a chance to be saved. Why do I believe this? All men are given the chance to accept or reject God because God loves all men and desires all men to come to him. According to 2 Pet. 3:9, “The [...]
Bill Pratt | November 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Not according to an article published last year by the Wall Street Journal. The columnist cites research which indicates that people who never worship at a traditional house of worship are more likely to be superstitious. Below is an excerpt: The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of [...]
Bill Pratt | November 2, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Richard John Neuhaus, the editor of First Things magazine who passed away earlier this year, had a special way of finding humor in news reporting about religion. I was reading one such commentary recently that caused me to laugh out loud – and for several minutes. Not wanting to keep this [...]
Bill Pratt | September 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you actually know anything substantive about major world religions, you know the answer to this question is an emphatic “no.” The only people claiming that all religions are the same or that all religions are equally true are those people who know little to nothing about world religions, or who [...]
