Category: apologetics
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A willingness to live with unresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense as some unwisely regard it.” – Oxford Professor Alister McGrath The problem of evil is often deployed by atheists as their decisive “nuclear option” against theism. Evil can precipitate a “crisis…
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+ Evidential Evil, Evil, Existential Evil, Free Will Defense, Logical Problem of Evil, Sovereignty, Theodicy+
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(The following is extracted from a research paper entitled “The Argument From Beauty” submitted on Jun 20, 2022 at Southern Seminary.) We often hear that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Does that mean that beauty is subjective and not objective? Is beauty objective or subjective? The ancient…
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The EndGame For Transgender Insanity In the analysis of any worldview, one of the primary considerations is to follow its understanding of reality to its logical conclusion. In other words, what is the “endgame”? The endgame for nihilism is despair, mental illness and ultimately . . . destruction . .…
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Transgenderism, Nihilism, and Frankenstein Rufo comments on contemporary gender theory that is taught in college, writing: “they wanted to smash the conception of sex and argue against all traditional notions of human nature, including the biological reality of male and female. This has, understandably, caused enormous frustration, as there is…
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Inside the Transgender Empire Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has a well-researched essay here entitled “Inside the Transgender Empire”, that is based upon a lecture he gave at Hillsdale College. Rufo doesn’t pull any punches and calls the transgender movement out…
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James Sire, widely respected apologist, author, and lecturer who served for more than thirty years as senior editor at InterVarsity Press, provides five reasons why nihilism is unlivable: 1st) From meaninglessness nothing at all follows, or rather, anything follows. If the universe is meaningless and a person cannot know and…
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“Nihilism is a denial of any philosophy or worldview—a denial of the possibility of knowledge, a denial that anything is valuable. If it proceeds to the absolute denial of everything, it even denies the reality of existence itself. In other words, nihilism is the negation of everything—knowledge, ethics, beauty, reality.…
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The cosmological constant controls the rate of expansion of the Universe. Too large and the universe would have collapsed back in on itself, rendering life impossible. Too small and stars and galaxies could not have formed, again rendering life impossible. The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics went to physicists Saul…
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While the gospel can be condensed to John 3:16, a good apologist must be able to defend the gospel in all of its glorious fullness. It is extremely difficult to execute theological triage and know when to fall on one’s sword if we hold only an abbreviated form of the…
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Contingent beings are things that exist, but do not have to exist. Examples are my iphone, my car and me. Contingent beings depend upon upon other beings for their existence. In contrast, something is a necessary being if it exists, has always existed and has to exist; it cannot “not…
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Christian Apologetics 