Tag: natural law
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“Christian ethics is not an arbitrary collection of rules, but the embodiment of God’s moral order in redemption.” —Andrew T. Walker Andrew Walker is a Professor of Ethics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Read here as he demonstrates how scripture provides a symphony of creation, law, and gospel that resolves…
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“Abstract academic debates about relativism sound impressive in seminar rooms. They sound absurd amid the piles of shoes at Auschwitz.” Andrew Walker, professor of Christian ethics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, articulates powerful and much-needed truth here that the Nuremberg trials stand “as a modern vindication of the moral law…
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There is a well-written, insightful article here on the sexual chaos spreading like a cancer throughout our culture. The observation that “she was made for it” is a clear reference to the Natural Law (Romans 2:14-15). The Natural Law is an increasingly important element today of apologetics; defying it is…
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Is it possible that evil actually presents a powerful argument for the very existence of God? Can the existence of evil be used, in the words of Anselm, “to shatter the rigid resistance of unbelievers?” Philosopher Gregory Ganssle acknowledges that evil seems to supply evidence against the existence of God,…
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+ Abductive Argument, Anselm, Athenagoras, christianity, Christus Victor, CS Lewis, Dualism, Evidential Problem of Evil, Evil, Existential Problem of Evil, god, Good, Gustav Aulen, Logical Problem of Evil, Materialism, natural law, Naturalism, Skeptical Theism, Theodicy, worldview+
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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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(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…
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