Encourage:
-
Recent Posts
-
Past President of The Christian Apologetics Alliance
Apologetics Daily
my goodreads profile
Categories
- Apologetics
- Apologetics Toolbox
- Epistemology
- Ethics & Metaethics
- God Particle
- Groothuis' 'Christian Apologetics'
- Keller's Reason for God
- Ontological Argument
- Predestination
- Richard Dawkins
- Sam Harris
- Stephen Law's evil god argument
- Testimonies
- Tim McGrew
- Undesigned Coincidences
- William Lane Craig
- Youth Apologetics
- Bible Narrative Project
- Carnival
- Examiner.com Articles
- Freelancing Tips and Tricks
- Harmonic Triads
- Inventions
- Memories
- Neighboring
- News
- Poetry and Fiction
- Random
- Reviews and Interviews
- Apologetics
Archives
Meta
Author Archives: Maryann Spikes
Predestination and Free Will
This thread updates the old “determinism and free will” thread. Predestination and Free Will I start off asking a question for the purpose of introducing concepts in its answer: freedom and determinism: compatible or incompatible? Ultimately, though, the question is: … Continue reading
Posted in Divine Essentialism, Predestination
8 Comments
Can God do the meaninglessly impossible? *yawn*
Can God make a rock so heavy He can’t lift it? It’s about logical paradox. When something is a paradox, it loses meaning. God cannot make a rock so heavy He cannot lift it, because that is a meaningless statement. … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
1 Comment
Mystery in the Bible
Supernatural truths are divinely introduced via revelation from God, and so are referred to as ‘mysteries’ – as they are not “self-evident” (natural) truths (Rom 1:20; 2:14-15). Here is a collection of Zondervan NASB Study Bible notes on verses which … Continue reading
Posted in Against Gnosticism
Leave a comment
Glimpse of Eternity
This post gives a glimpse of “Eternity in Their Hearts” by Don Richardson, who is recognized for his anthropological and linguistic work among the Sawi people of Irian Jaya. Edward B. Tyler’s theory that monotheism evolved has been refuted for a long time. … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Apologetics Toolbox
Leave a comment
The motivation to do good is God.
Some who glorify evil imply that the only motivation to do good is lost when God is not in the picture. In a way this is true, because, as Jesus said, “I am the vine and you are the branches … Continue reading
Posted in Divine Essentialism, Golden Rule
Leave a comment
Science Experiment with Faith
I wonder…could you do an experiment… see how easy/hard it is to “walk the walk” of a Christian (not the hypocritical Christian, but your best idea of the Christian who genuinely loves and follows Christ), depending on God to help … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
Leave a comment
Biblical criticism and interpretation.
From Zondervan’s Handbook to the Bible, 1999: ‘The text and the message’, pp. 58-59 Excerpt from ‘Studying the Gospels’, pp. 546-547 The text and the messageCraig Bartholomew Academic study of the Bible (‘biblical criticism’) has been dominated by a number … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
Leave a comment
If you were God, how would you make yourself known?
If I had never heard about God before, and suddenly I started wondering why anything exists, and it occurred to me that perhaps there is a being behind it all… and that perhaps this being interacts with beings like me… … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
2 Comments
Is it a weakness for God to have feelings?
How I know He has feelings is because He saved me. Nobody without feelings saves anybody. He showed us how to live in union with Him (happy) by giving us the law, and He gave us a way to make … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
Leave a comment
Satan is not actually "Lucifer"
You won’t find anywhere in the Bible where it says Lucifer tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. There was a serpent/dragon in Genesis, and Satan is referred to as a serpent/dragon elsewhere in the Bible besides Genesis… like in … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics
4 Comments
Ichthus77 