INTRODUCTION How would you feel if five minutes before you stood up to debate an opponent they leaned over, whispered in your ear, and said the following? “I hope you don’t mind if I don’t present any evidence for my view in this debate and instead just keep shouting...
REVIEW We’ve presented five arguments for the existence of God and answered atheism’s objections about suffering in the world, God’s origin and his hiddenness. As Christians, we’ve already borne the burden of proof in presenting five arguments for God. In raising...
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED SO FAR: GOD EXISTS In previous blogs we used an approach called “natural theology.” We stated that we would not use scripture as justification for the existence of God. Using natural theology's five arguments for the existence of God we can provide...
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED SO FAR: GOD EXISTS In previous blogs we used an approach called “natural theology.” We stated that we would not use scripture as support or justification for the existence of God. Hopefully, our five arguments based on science and philosophy...
REVIEW Five Reasons To Believe In God In a previous blog, we said that using natural theology’s five arguments for the existence of God we could provide five excellent reasons to believe in God: 1. God is the best explanation for the existence of objective moral...
INTRODUCTIONIn our last blog, we said that one of the most significant obstacles for some people to overcome is the fact that Christianity is a religion of miracles. The idea of miracles and the supernatural are a little hard to swallow for some people. Why is...
THE AFTERMATH OF SPINOZA AND HUMEIn our last two blogs on miracles, we said that Jewish pantheist philosopher Benedict Spinoza of Amsterdam and the Scottish atheist philosopher David Hume each had a profound influence in the fields of philosophy and theology, and...
ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER DAVID HUME "Were a stranger to drop suddenly into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field strewn with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT? Up until the 1960s, critics of theism, like Epicurus and David Hume, said that the following two statements could NOT possibly both be true: 1. God is all-powerful and all-good. 2. Suffering exists. Philosophers call...