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The story of Job is fascinating. Job suffers the loss of family, possessions, and health and is reduced to sackcloth and ash. His friends see his great pain and initially just sit with him quietly. However, in true human fashion they get uncomfortable with the silence and can’t help but open their big mouths and offer explanations for…..
When we talk about the “moral high ground,” we are talking about a ground on which none of us is completely competent to walk since we are all prone to Fall. In fact, clinging to the illusion that we can walk a perfect moral tightrope gets us into a lot of trouble when onlookers see us tumble into the crowd. It is the politician who repeatedly denies the illicit affair, or the sports star who goes to great legal lengths to preserve…..
While atheist-theologian would seem to be a career oxymoron, it is a profession encountered on a surprisingly regular basis amongst the outspoken critics of Christianity. It seems our atheist friends find it necessary to dabble in the “dark art” of theology in order to prove that God doesn’t exist. They believe that by practicing divine psychoanalysis they can help us…..
While Christianity has many critics their complaints are rarely if ever directed at Jesus. They blame the Christian machine and those who call themselves followers of Christ, but feel compelled to claim Jesus as their own. While they may deny that Jesus is the only way they seem convinced that He needs to have at least a little skin in…..
I have spent the last several weeks discussing how a materialist view of the universe fails to explain the world we experience everyday of our lives. While materialism may be important to the atheist scientist, it is white noise to the majority of people who are obsessed with spiritual fulfillment. The daily angst of our fellow man is not generated…..
I am disappointed by the lack of scientific rigor that is applied to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, a theory that basically states that random mutations (mistakes in genetic replication) are the fuel that drives the evolutionary machine. While proponents claim that it is the natural selection of those mutations that actually makes us winners in this cosmic game of dice, it…..
I have grown weary of the debates between atheists and Christians because the question for the vast majority of people is not, “Does God exist?” but rather, “Who is the God we should worship?” I see lecture halls packed with believers and unbelievers alike all awaiting a scholarly Fourth of July Fireworks show. Audiences captivated by the pyrotechnic display…..
Isn’t it interesting that the only time we’re able to sit still for our life portraits is when we’re dead? Instead of carefully painting them ourselves we end up handing the brush and palette to a pastor, family member, or friend. We spend a lifetime carefully writing the story of our lives and then abruptly ask others to create a…..
The gods of Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all gone under the historical postmortem knife. We have extensive pathology reports documenting their demise. The cause of death – religious natural selection. Interestingly, while these deities decomposed, the one true living God began to take over the world.
Atheists know that religion must be explained so they offer the usual…..
Christians are engaged in a cultural worldview battle. Our two most prominent adversaries are the philosophical forces of modernism and postmodernism. Modernism, assembles its atheistic forces and engages the Bible and its adherents in conventional warfare. These skirmishes are often conducted in college auditoriums where the generals of each side spar in a war of words. Postmodernism, on the…..
