Book Review: On Guard

Pages: 286 Pub­lisher: David C. Cook Year: 2010 Author: William Lane Craig What an unex­pected sur­prise. This is a book I really wish I could have read when I first became inter­ested in apolo­get­ics, as Craig has writ­ten an extremely acces­si­ble and easy to under­stand guide to defend­ing and explain­ing the truth­ful­ness of the Chris­t­ian faith, as well as the rea­sons one might have for believing. The first apolo­get­ics... Read More

Judgment, made possible by…

Igno­rance. Well, not exactly. Since writ­ing my pre­vi­ous post on the “Foun­da­tions of Moral­ity” I had a thought. Not a series of thoughts, just one thought. I thought that if we live by the objec­tive moral stan­dard, even in igno­rance, we make judg­ment pos­si­ble.  I would imag­ine it some­thing like a per­son on vaca­tion in a cer­tain coun­try, who breaks the laws of that coun­try. This per­son might appear in court... Read More

Value in apologetics?

Prob­a­bly every­one (or mostly every­one) who’s been inter­ested in apolo­get­ics for any amount of time has heard the fol­low­ing: peo­ple won’t believe in Jesus because of argu­ments, they are use­less! Well, I’ve cer­tainly heard the com­ment, any­way. What is inter­est­ing about it, is that it’s lim­ited in scope. It ignores the fact that there are many ways to do evan­ge­lism, and there are many “steps” in evan­ge­lism.... Read More

The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

…Is a book I would really like to buy. Yet it’s very expen­sive, why? Oh well! I’ll either wait for some­one to send me a copy, or there’s always Christmas.  Read More

Are Allah and YHWH the same God?

I’ve recently been read­ing the writ­ings of Emir Fethi Caner (Pas­sion­ate Con­vic­tion, “Islam and Chris­tian­ity”, 187–204) and this is what he has to say on some of the ‘com­par­isons’ between Chris­tian­ity and Islam and their con­cep­tions of God. Often times Mus­lims or reli­gious plu­ral­ists will draw com­par­isons between words. ‘Allah’ is the Ara­bic word for God, YHWH is the Hebrew word for God, there­fore,... Read More

William Lane Craig: Kalam and contemporary science

Some times I hear peo­ple crit­i­cize William Lane Craig for his lack of knowl­edge when it comes to sci­ence in gen­eral and astro­physics espe­cially. It’s a crit­i­cism I really don’t under­stand, I don’t think it’s valid at all. I came across a series of videos on Youtube where Craig fields ques­tions from pro­fes­sional  philoso­phers and physi­cists and again, I don’t see how peo­ple believe they can ‘get away’... Read More

Exclusively Inclusive

I was brows­ing through An Emer­gent Man­i­festo of Hope in the hope of find­ing some­thing semi-substantial to write on.  Luck­ily I encoun­tered a con­tribut­ing author by the name of (Pas­tor) Samir Sel­manovic. In his arti­cle he writes: When we say that only Christ saves, Christ rep­re­sents some­thing larger than the per­son we Chris­tians have come to know. He is all and in all. And Christ being “the only way” is not... Read More

The Resurrection?

Lately I’ve been watch­ing and read­ing about the debate sur­round­ing the res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus and the his­toric­ity of such an account. This reminded me of a brief dia­logue Tony Jones pre­sented at the begin­ning of The New Chris­tians. The argu­ment was meant to show the defi­ciency of foun­da­tion­al­ism, how­ever, it con­cerns some­thing that is brought up more often than not in pop­u­lar­ized ‘res­ur­rec­tion... Read More

It’s Genetic!

When Chris­tians involve them­selves in dis­cus­sions of homo­sex­u­al­ity, usu­ally a cou­ple things hap­pen: (1) there is a fail­ure to dis­tin­guish between homo­sex­u­al­ity as a dis­po­si­tion and homo­sex­ual acts and (2) peo­ple view it as some sort of argu­ment to assert that, since homo­sex­u­al­ity must have a genetic ori­gin, it’s accept­able and an ortho­dox read­ing of Scrip­ture on the ‘homo­sex­ual... Read More

Relationship between Faith and Reason

I just don’t get it. I don’t under­stand why there are Chris­tians who hold to the idea that as Chris­tians, we’re to aban­don the head for the heart (we don’t place the head above the heart to begin with), knowl­edge for the Spirit (we cer­tainly under­stand that all things are in sub­jec­tion to God, includ­ing knowl­edge) and logic for the spir­i­tual. Bet­ter not tell Paul in Athens. I don’t see what rea­son there is to... Read More

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