Category Archives: Apologetics

Human Machines, Free Will, and Moral Evil

Posted on June 4, 2010 by

There’s a popular view on love and free will that I regularly encounter. It goes something like this: In order for love to be genuine, the agent has to have the ability to choose not to love. Unless there is freedom of … Continue reading →

Posted in Action Theory, Apologetics, Free Will/Determinism/Compatibilism, Problem of Evil, Theology, Trinity | 10 Comments

Abandoning the Christian Faith: Part 1

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

Let me be clear about the title. I am not abandoning the Christian faith, but I want to say a few things about those who do. There is a growing phenomenon of people who were raised in churches, received Christian education, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Apologetics, Ecclesiology, Theology | 6 Comments

The Future Story of American Christianity

Posted on October 18, 2009 by

No doubt you’ve heard stories of people defecting from the Christian faith. Get used to it. You are going to hear many more. Hordes of people who grew up in the American church — many who were quite devout — … Continue reading →

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God the Philosopher

Posted on September 6, 2008 by

Think about this: Under ‘things in the broadest possible sense’ include such radically different items as not only ‘cabbages and kings’, but numbers and duties. possibilities and finger snaps, aesthetic experience and death. To achieve success in philosophy would be, … Continue reading →

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Not So Neutral

Posted on January 26, 2008 by

This post has been sitting incomplete in my writing files for more than a year. I just needed a reason to complete it. Thanks to the discussion on the previous post, “Common Misconceptions of the Christmas Story” I was given new … Continue reading →

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Common Misconceptions of the Christmas Story

Posted on January 9, 2008 by

A good case can be made that this post is a bit untimely (not unlike my family’s Christmas cards which haven’t gone out yet), but I find that there’s a benefit in looking at this subject post-Christmas season. For one, the … Continue reading →

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The Ethics of Old Testament Genocide and Radical Islamic Jihad

Posted on August 20, 2007 by

The Old Testament stories, if presented accurately in their fullness, would not make very good Family Focus Films. These stories contain incidents of rape, brutal murder, cannibalism, and the slaughter of women and infants, to name a few. We tend to gloss over … Continue reading →

Posted in Apologetics, Old Testament Exegesis, Theology, World Religions | 17 Comments

The Noetic Effects of Salvation in Presuppositional Apologetics

Posted on August 8, 2007 by

It has become standard fare in any method of Christian apologetics to give a place to what theologians call the noetic effects of sin. How does sin affect our minds? In what way is one’s ability to reason corrupted by … Continue reading →

Posted in Apologetics, Epistemology, Systematic Theology, Theology | 12 Comments

A Brief Response to the Problem of Evil

Posted on February 12, 2007 by

What follows below is my notes from a lecture I gave this weekend to a group of homeschool students. What’s the problem? “Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not … Continue reading →

Posted in Apologetics, Philosophy | 20 Comments

Plantinga (almost) on Dawkins

Posted on February 6, 2007 by

Perhaps while milling around the blogosphere (though it’s less of a sphere and more of jungle these days) you read Alvin Plantinga’s review of Richard’s Dawkins’ less-than-impressive-even-by-atheist-standards The God Delusion on one of any number of blogs. But try looking for it … Continue reading →

Posted in Apologetics, Philosophy, Theology | 6 Comments

Presuppositional Apologetics and Other Religions

Posted on January 25, 2007 by

It should be no secret to those who have read this blog for a while that John and I favor apologetics of the presuppositional Van Til tradition. I’m not interested in trying to prove presuppositional apologetics to its opponents here … Continue reading →

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