Reading Time: 5 minutes Two-thirds of the way through a book entitled The Reason for God, Tim Keller confesses he doesn’t intend to provide you with evidence that God exists. Why not? He says it’s because you already know that God exists…all of you, atheists included. He’s just trying to make you see that you already do. Then as if […]
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Four (bad) reasons for God
Reading Time: 8 minutes When I first picked up Tim Keller‘s The Reason for God, I did not expect that out of fourteen chapters he would devote only one of them to offering arguments for the existence of God. I’m not sure what I expected, but after all the hype from my Christian friends and their pleading with me to read […]
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Changing gods midstream
Reading Time: 7 minutes “You can’t ride two horses with one a**, sugarbean.” —Earl Smooter, Sweet Home Alabama Halfway through his book The Reason for God, Tim Keller pauses for an intermission in which he pivots from his previous discussion of “the seven biggest objections…people in our culture have about the Christian faith” to lay the groundwork for part two […]
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For the Bible tells me? No.
Reading Time: 8 minutes I don’t have any concrete numbers on this, but I believe most Christians who are into apologetics as a serious hobby are inerrantists. By that I mean they belong to one of those subsets of the Christian faith who believe the Bible is right—not just about some things—but about everything. Tim Keller falls into that […]
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The evolution of Hell in The Reason for God
Reading Time: 9 minutes Growing up in an evangelical church I was taught that no matter what it is you want or need, God himself is the answer. You need comfort or security? God is where you get it. You want guidance or companionship? God is there for you. You need discipline? Affection? Wisdom? God, God, God. It reminds […]
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The problem of evil in The Reason for God
Reading Time: 12 minutes Christian theology has wrestled since its inception with the problem of evil. Generally speaking, they believe that God is a being who is completely good, who is everywhere present all the time, who has all power, and who knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will. In other words he is omniscient, […]
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Franklin Graham: Impeachment Support = Biblical Jews BETRAYING JESUS
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Man alive, it really says something about the absolute state of Christianity that I wasn’t sure yesterday that this story would end up being the chosen option for today’s post. But here we are, and it is strange territory to be sure to find ourselves in: Franklin Graham, son of the evangelical hero […]
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Lionized Christian theologian C.S. Lewis was ‘pseudo intellectual’
Reading Time: 3 minutes No matter how profound he seemed, the late Christian apologist C.S. Lewis was just a guy who believed in God simply because he did.
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C.S. Lewis and the Art of Holy Deception
Reading Time: 11 minutes It only recently occurred to me that I am now older than C.S. Lewis was when he first delivered the Broadcast Talks for BBC Radio upon which his later book Mere Christianity was based. Like him, I have been a teacher for decades; but unlike him, I have also spent decades parenting several children and […]
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C.S. Lewis and the Argument from Wishing
Reading Time: 10 minutes Yesterday I posted the first of what I plan to become a series of chapter reviews of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I know I’m late to this game—others have already dissected this work many times over—but I’ve never written out my own thoughts for those who would want to know them. It’s long overdue. […]