Category: apologetics
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I am fortunate to be a member of a large evangelical church with significant resources. We offer a multitude of ministry opportunities, operate a Christian school (grades 1-12), have an impressive recreation center and offer social activities galore. It is also heavily involved in worldwide missions. I’m grateful to be…
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The Nomological Argument for the existence of God is not based on the fact that our universe contains the exact regularities that it does in fact contain. Rather, it is based on the more general claim that the observed parts of nature contain regularities involving a certain level of sophistication,…
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Darren Slade, PhD in theology and church history, writes, “In AD 125, Roman Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138) traveled to Athens for the Eleusinian mysteries. According to Eusebius (ca. AD 265–339), a Christian philosopher named Aristides produced apologetic books for the Emperor. His apologetics compelled Hadrian to counter the arbitrary prosecution…
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Jeremy Pierre has a must-read article online here entitled “The Culture War Hits Close to Home: Loving Wisdom, Spotting Stupidity.” Jeremy is explicit that “Stupidity is not really about the intelligence of someone’s brain but rather the affections of someone’s heart.” He correctly identifies the cultural war: “The war on…
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I remember when the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible was released in 1984 that some proclaimed “heresy.” Why? Let’s compare the KJV (King James Version) vs NIV Bible: 1 John 5:7-9 KJV: 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the…
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“Scientism” asserts that the only things we can know are things that can be tested scientifically. Scientism comes in two forms: Strong scientism is self-refuting because the assertion that “we can only know things that can be tested scientifically”, cannot itself be tested scientifically and therefore we cannot know it.…
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A self-refuting statement contradicts itself, making it logically false. However, Christians sometimes unfortunately mischaracterize an assertion as self-refuting. An example is the statement “There are no moral absolutes” to which a Christian might respond “Are you absolutely sure?” believing he has demonstrated the statement to be self-refuting. In fact, the…
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A worldview represents one’s understanding of reality. This understanding can either correspond to reality or deny reality. False worldviews have an inevitable tendency to either collide (sometimes violently) with other worldviews, or implode. Some of the major conflicts in our culture represent worldviews in collision: i.e., between naturalism and supernaturalism,…
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Christian Apologetics 