Characters: Sophia: A seeker of truth, raising objections to the concept of federal headship. Theophilus: A theologian, presenting a defense of federal headship and God’s…
KEY POINTS The Moral Argument for God asserts that objective moral values require a transcendent source (God), as these values exist independently of human opinion.…
I love debating important ideas, especially within the context of Christian theology. And few will challenge Christian thinking as well as mature atheists. Of course,…
Q: how should I answer a critic who accuses me of needing a “sky daddy” when I express Christian faith? When someone accuses you of…
A favorite atheist challenge is “what evidence do you have for the existence of God?” Summaries of the existing arguments abound, but most people don’t…
Every metaphysical system with any cogency and appeal has some points of strength, and all have weaknesses. The question is which have more strengths and…
My Dad was a Jew, and I am not deaf to the complaints of my Jewish family and friends who doubt that Jesus was the…
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in…
The Importance of this Question Jesus of Nazareth is reported to have done many miracles in the bible, including casting out demons, healing the sick,…
A while back, I put a long comment on a Buzzfeed article entitled 7 Shocking Bible Verses You Probably Won’t Hear In Church. Since then,…
My skeptic friend at the Facebook group Atheism vs Christianity (no holds barred) is at it again (see my last post), asking me questions. I guess that’s…
Former Christian and now atheist Cara has a blog at Think Atheist, and posted this list of questions (questions originally posted by Thomas Swan) and…
One challenge to the Christian faith is the claim that the uneven distribution of faith around the globe may challenge some of Christian claims about…
You could classify objections to the claims of scriptures in three categories: External – historical or scientific inaccuracies Internal – too many textual variants or…
In The Evil God Challenge, Flipping Arguments, I attempted to outline Stephen Law’s argument against the existence of a good God. In this post, I…
In a recent, highly publicized series of debates in the U.K. between William Lane Craig, Christian philosopher and apologist, and a series of atheists, resulted…
In my post Is Genesis Metaphorical or Historical?, commenter Floss asked the question that forms the title of this post. Here’s my short answer. 1. It…
I love the whole debate scene, and I have listened to a lot of Christian and non-Christian news podcasts, and narrowed down my favorites to…
One of the more informative podcasts I listen to regularly is Issues Etc. Recently, they interviewed Joel Heck, who’s written a very inexpensive book entitled…
In my last post, I discussed the various defenses of the eternality of hell – this time, I would like to compare the role of…
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I generalized that, since the impact of being wrong about God is high, it doesn’t matter how…
This post is part of a series. Pascal’s famous ‘wager’ is often misunderstood, and maligned by anti-theists as an argument from lack of evidence, or…
Jay Richards – did physics kill God? (Stephen Hawking) INTRO For the materialist, the fundamental and foundational source is the universe… Carl Sagan said ‘the…
Wm Craig – 7 evidences for God 1. Why does anything exist? (Cosmological argument) A. Contingency argument 1. Everything that exists has an explanation for…