Tag: faith
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There is a symbiotic relationship between faith and reason. Both are necessary. For 2000 years, Christian tradition has insisted that Christianity is a rational faith. Faith without reason is fideism which over time can become superstition. On the other hand, reason without faith is rationalism which ultimately descends into nihilism…
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Alisa Childers is a former CCM singer and a Christian apologist. Her web site is here. She gives her story here talking about challenges to her faith and how she solidified her faith, becoming intellectually convinced of the veracity of the Christian worldview.
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I’ve always marveled at how Christ precisely fulfills the Old Testament Jewish feast days. Consider . . . 1) Passover (Leviticus 23:5) – Pointed to the Messiah as our Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7) whose blood would be shed for our sins. Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation…
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Lactantius, writing early in the 4th century after Constantine had assumed power and the persecutions were over, noted in Book 2 of his Divine Institutes that the church was empowered over the demonic. In chapter XVI of Book 2, Lactantius writes concerning demonic entities, “They (the demonic) do indeed injure,…
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Given the state of public education, I suspect many young people have no idea who the Marquis de Sade is. (The word “sadism” derives from his name.) He was the first person in modern times to write openly about abortion and affirm it. As Davidson notes in Pagan America, Sade’s…
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Marcus Tullius Cicero was not a Christian; he lived from 106 BC to 43 BC, long before Christianity emerged. He was a Roman statesman, lawyer, philosopher, and orator who adhered to the religious and philosophical beliefs of ancient, pagan Rome. He is famous for characterizing religion as either “nothing at…
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There is an interesting article here entitled “Engineers For The Gospel.” It’s worth reading in entirety. Engineers tend to make good apologists. They think logically, are practical and deal with certainty. They can self-teach new things. They know what they believe and why they believe it. They know that ideas…
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I did not know that Francis Schaeffer (of L’Abri) had a son until I saw this interview with him conducted by Sean McDowell. This was painful to watch. Frank claims to be an “atheist who believes in God.” Sean is very gracious in the interview. While it’s obvious that Frank…
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But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than…
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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 