Reading Time: 5 minutes What grounds the typical Christian’s faith? Christian apologist Greg Koukl makes a frank admission.
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The Holy Spirit’s odd role in evangelism
Reading Time: 2 minutes Why would the Holy Spirit need ordinary Christians as partners to evangelize? Christians are the weak link in this bizarre partnership. But there is a reason to include Christians.
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Wondering Over Signs and Wonders
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a great guest piece from the awesome Suzanne Titkemeyer. She used to be a fellow Patheoser and has guested a piece detailing a recent triggering from a (completely insane) video she saw. She has moved to Costa Rica, and you can check out her YouTube channel about her adventures living there. Over to […]
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The Resurrection Belief Supervening on the Holy Trinity Belief
Reading Time: 4 minutes As most of you already know, I am writing a book on the Resurrection of Jesus, looking critically at the historical and theological claims involved. I wrote this aside section to highlight that without a coherent or working understanding of the Holy Trinity, the belief in a (Trinitarian) resurrection is somewhat even more problematic. Here […]
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Trinity in the Spotlight: The Son of God, Begotten, Not Made.
Reading Time: 10 minutes At the heart of the Nicene Creed are these words: “And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father … .” As this […]
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The Resurrection Debunked: The Empty Tomb
Reading Time: 10 minutes As mentioned in my two previous posts, it is that time of year again where the Resurrection of Jesus requires a thorough going over. Here it continues. There are three aspects to the debunking of the Resurrection: 1) The Gospels are not reliable sources of information; they are poor quality evidence 2) The claims of the Resurrection […]
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Faith and Facts
Reading Time: 2 minutes Memes are dangerous things to think too deeply about because they are, more often than not, clickbaity things designed entirely for particular audiences, either to rile them up or make them feel smug. But they can also promote some thought. Here’s one that I have recently seen: This is a really interesting idea, not least […]
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The Holy Trinity Is Incoherent #2 – Penal Substitution Theory
Reading Time: 5 minutes The other day, I wrote a piece on the general incoherence of the Holy Trinity from a logical and philosophical point of view, taking into account existence properties and the like. Some years back, on this topic when posting my original pieces, I even got to slugging it out with Andy Schueler against some Catholics […]
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Propositional content of the inner witness of God
Reading Time: 3 minutes How many times do we hear Christians claiming that they have had direct experience of God as a self-authenticating inner witness? It is pretty common as a debate closer. William Lane Craig famously uses it, as in here:
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God lied or knowingly deceived
Reading Time: < 1 minute Another little piece from my friend Julian Haydon. This one succinctly documents the issue that God seems to have entirely changed his revelation and theological scenario, if you will, from the OT to the NT. The same can be said for the soul, heaven and hell: GOD LIED OR KNOWINGLY DECEIVED WHICH IS THE SAME […]