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Problem: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he not prevent evil, suffering and hell?
My thoughts on the solution: 1. Unconditional love is impossible if suffering and evil are impossible. God, like a good father, allows us to learn from our mistakes, rather than dysfunctionally protecting us from them by a) preventing us from making them, … Continue reading
Walk to the Cross (Easter Prep), pt.2: External/Internal Evidence
Back in February I posted part one of a lecture series on the Gospels by Tim McGrew entitled “Who Wrote the Gospels?” Then, mid-March I posted Professor McGrew’s answer to my question, “Did Christians ‘reinterpret’ Old Testament passages to be … Continue reading
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Walk to the Cross (Easter prep): Jesus in the Old Testament
I asked Professor Tim McGrew for evidence that Christians didn’t “reinterpret” Old Testament passages to be prophecies fulfilled in Jesus. As Easter approaches, it’s time to share his reply. Material referred to is Maas (and here), Edersheim, and Miller (“NWNTI, JTM, BPM, … Continue reading
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Different methods in apologetics
http://noblindfaith.com [ updated after re-reading chapter 3 of Douglas Groothuis’ Christian Apologetics ] [ updated again after reading the introduction to Five Views on Apologetics by Stephen B. Cowan, as well as John Frame’s main article on presuppositionalism, and his … Continue reading
It just happened, eh?
Louie Giglio: If the Earth Were a Golf Ball: https://youtu.be/FgqA2iW2zkk This is cool, too: The Scale of the Universe: http://htwins.net/scale2 (h/t Jon Eck)
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Who Wrote the Gospels? by Timothy McGrew
Lecture notes and accompanying chart can be downloaded here. You can click on each blue checkmark to see the evidence.
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WLC makes plain the Ontological Argument
The ontological argument finally clicked for me. Thankyou Dr. Craig! Begin forwarded message: From: William Lane Craig <info@reasonablefaith.org>Subject: Question of the Week – Misunderstanding the Ontological Argument ———– Question: Good Day from Nepal. We badly need apologetics in Nepal so … Continue reading
C.A.S.E. – Christian Apologetics Search Engine
Check out this new Christian apologetics search engine (C.A.S.E.) put together by Mark Deviny of Christian Apologetics Alliance. Over 200 apologetics websites and growing. Here are some questions you can ask in the search engine: Isn’t there truth in every religion? … Continue reading
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Peter Williams on how the Gospels get people, places and plants right
A very lively lecture including statistical analysis of the people, place and plant names used in the Gospels and the undesigned coincidences surrounding the feeding of the 5,000. I like how Dr. Williams points out that the authors of the … Continue reading
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Undesigned Coincidences in the Bible by Tim McGrew
(Last published 9/23/11. Added 4/10/13: Video. Also see Audio Resources by Tim McGrew and Internal Evidence for the Gospels by Tim McGrew on Apologetics315.) A few months back I heard an April 24, 2011 radio interview on this topic, by fellow Christian Apologetics Alliance member Tim … Continue reading
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