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by Bob Pratico Submitted July 09, 2022 at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary In my experience many Southern Baptist churches, apparently fearful of an “overreaction”, observe Pentecost Sunday with deafening silence refusing to even acknowledge the momentous significance of that historic day on the liturgical calendar. Some seem to fear the…
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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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By Bob Pratico Ironically, one of the charges against the early church during the multiple persecutions by the Roman Empire was that of “atheism” because the Christians had abandoned the pagan gods. In 112 A.D., Pliny the Younger, then Roman governor of Bithynia, wrote the Emperor Trajan seeking counsel on…
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Meet your son’s physics college professor. He is a postmodern naturalist atheist who excels in deconstructing Christian worldviews. Geroge Barna concludes the following from his extensive research here: “The firm’s studies have also pointed out that a person’s worldview is primarily shaped and is firmly in place by the time…
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“And he (Jesus) answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind” (Luke 10:27) What is Apologetics? In a nutshell, it is a rational defense of the Christian faith against unjust accusations.…
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(Author: Bob Pratico; submitted originally on June 20, 2022 at Southern Seminary) IntroductionThe Swiss theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar warned in a penetrating analysis in 1982 that “Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she…
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(Author: Bob Pratico; Originally submitted Mar 5, 2022 at Southern Seminary) Natural Law theory affirms that God embedded His moral law into creation such that rational creatures intuitively know of its existence and can comprehend good and evil to some degree. The natural law that is implanted in creation derives…
Christian Apologetics 