Category Archives: Apologetics
Beat people with your Bible?
“You shouldn’t beat people over the head with the Bible.” Often heard phrase, but is it useful to say (or affirm)? Last week, in a Prayer Partner Letter from Bethlehem College & Seminary, President Tim Tomlinson wrote the following helpful … Continue reading
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Chilean Miners’ “Jesus” T-Shirts…
Did you notice the T-shirts worn by the 33 Chilean miners as they emerged from the ground? I spotted the name JESUS on the sleeve, and wondered about them. This was a logo for “The Jesus Film Project” (of Campus … Continue reading
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Back to College? Beware…
One college student, with Christian convictions will not be allowed to continue her master’s program because of those convictions… “Eastern Michigan University expelled Julea Ward from itsmaster’s program in school counseling,” reports Dr Joseph Horton, “because Ms. Ward refused to … Continue reading
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Hosting a ne’er-do-well?
Author Jim Elliff recently shared an article entitled, Public Debate with Bart Ehrman in Seminaries: A Bad Decision. I agree. I also think his reasons can help us avoid unprofitable engagements with other ne’er-do-wells…. Here are Elliff’s main points. (Read … Continue reading
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Do you take the Bible literally?
“Do you take the Bible literally?” is a question frequently asked about biblical interpretation. How do you answer that? Greg Koukl shares his helpful reply – I answer that I try to take the Bible with the precision the particular … Continue reading
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Promoting truth
We need to uphold absolutes without absolutism, practice rationality without rationalism, make assertions without arrogance and offer a defense without defensiveness. In doing so, we need three priorities: right thinking, right practice, and right attitudes. Even when the first two … Continue reading
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There’s a God-shaped void within you…
…which only God Himself can fill. This famous phrase, reportedly coined by Blaise Pascal (philosopher, scientist & author), referring to “the God-shaped vacuum” in everyone, may actually be (according to Dr Douglas Groothuis), a paraphrase from one of Pascal’s Pensées … Continue reading
Filed under Apologetics, Human nature, Philosophy
Know the Chalk Trick?
A friend over at Vitamin Z blog quotes from another book I will be adding to my reading list shortly… The story is told of an atheist philosophy professor who performed a parlor trick each term to convince his students … Continue reading
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