Tag: death
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Lucas Stamps authored an excellent editorial here entitled “Immortality without God.” As I pointed out in my book Memento Mori, Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well, some naively believe that life can be indefinitely prolonged with new technology. Stamps correctly points out that unending life in…
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Steven Wedgeworth calls out the churches in Canada here with their participation in the country’s culture of death. “The only way that a church can find itself having “conversations” over whether to consecrate medical suicide is if it has already exchanged the testimony of God for contemporary cultural trends.”
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(My book is finished and I’m now working on finding a publisher.) Memento Mori: Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well Synopsis For nineteen centuries the death was public and sex was private. The culture flipped it in the middle of the 20th century and death became…
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There is an interesting account in the gospel of Luke 49-56: While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more.” But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.” And when…
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In 1979, Air New Zealand was conducting commerical sight-seeing flights to the Antarctic. In November, the final flight of the season, flight 901 crashed in Antarctica in what is known as the “Mount Erebus disaster”, killing everyone onboard (257 people). There is a video here detailing what happened, including actual…
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(From my coming book) For nineteen centuries, Christian apologists were not reluctant to use death in their arguments for the faith. It is instructive to briefly survey the historical apologetic writings of the church. The certitude of death makes it a powerful apologetic that speaks to everyone. The historical church…
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In Romans 1, Paul warns of the consequences of rejecting truth. In Col 2:8, he warns of being taken captive by deceit. In 2 Thess 2:13-19 he warns of deception because people refuse to love the truth. In our world with instant global communication technology, deceit spreads easily and rapidly.…
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Christian Apologetics 