Category: apologetics
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Dr. Carrier’s post is here. I was asked to respond to Dr. Carrier’s post on “Why Did Mark Invent An Empty Tomb?” Before I comment on his post, I must take exception to his claim on his “about” page for his “ethical worldview of secular naturalism” (emphasis is mine.) Ethical…
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Effective Apologetics is part science but mostly an art. An apologist must not only be knowledgeable but also an artist in how he wields that knowledge. There is no “magic bullet” argument that works every time. There is no template that says do A, then B and then C .…
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University of North Carolina sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in 2005 published a massive study of the religious beliefs of teenagers. Their conclusion was that most of these teenagers adhered to a variation of Deism called moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD). This form of deism is certainly not limited…
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Christian Apologetics 