Posts Tagged ‘theology’

Polygamous TRIO applies for marriage license

Posted: July 2, 2015 in Apologetics, General
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A married Montana man has taken his wife and his girlfriend to the Yellowstone County Courthouse and told the clerk: Marry us – if the Supreme Court OK’d “gay” unions, then we should be allowed to join together in holy polygamy.“It’s about marriage equality,” said Nathan Collier, who filed for a marriage application to two […]

Source: Polygamous TRIO applies for marriage license

Mere days after hearing how we are being paranoid about how the Supreme Court opinion on gay marriage would lead to polygamy, this story comes out.

The reason for defending marriage has nothing to do with (more…)

New TV series hunts evidence for Jesus

Posted: February 11, 2015 in Apologetics
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New TV series hunts evidence for Jesus.

I don’t even understand why this is a story.  Every year there are a whole swath of Jesus Seminar hit pieces.  When I’m teaching my intro to apologetics, one of the things we do is take one of the more current one of these and deconstruct it.

Apologetics – Never Having to Say I’m Sorry

Posted: July 23, 2013 in Apologetics
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“but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;”  1 Peter 3:15 (NASB) 

One of the greatest ills in Christendom of the recent era has been an abandonment of apologetics.  What was once a foundational skill – even if you didn’t call it by that name – seems to be relegated to professional theologians and philosophers.  For many of the laity the discipline of apologetics seems to be taken as indicative of having a lack of faith.

Nothing can be further from the truth.  In fact, to not engage in apologetics is patently unbiblical.  The 1 Peter 3:15 passage above is the most well known, but Paul not only encouraged apologetics, as with the Bereans (more…)

Thoughts on the Genesis Debate

Posted: June 2, 2013 in Apologetics, Creation
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Moses: God, please, will you tell me where it all came from?

God: Well Moses, about 14 billion years ago there was this singularity, and…

Moses: Uh, Lord?  What’s a singularity?

God: Ok, take all the mass in the universe and compress it down to a quantum point, then…

Moses: Quantum?

God: Hmm, never mind that.  Let’s try…

Moses: By the way, Lord,

God: Yes, Moses?

Moses: Is “billion” bigger than “a lot?”

Any reader that has a young child will realize that the above conversation is not sarcasm in the least.  I have had more than one conversation with my overly inquisitive and too-smart-for-his-own-good son that is eerily similar to this.  It also comes to the heart, in my opinion, of the recent debate over Genesis I have been following over at The SciFi Christian.  (more…)

Atheism’s Challenge in a 21st Century Cosmology

Posted: January 25, 2013 in Creation
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The last 25 years have been hard for the atheistic worldview, in my opinion. Not on the biological front so much as from the cosmological perspective. Also note that I say the “atheistic worldview” not the atheist personally. For most atheists I’ve known, their position – regardless the claim – is one held by faith rather than reason as much as most Christians. This is sad, since if you actually study history, theology and science, Christianity is a most reasonable position.

The Cosmological finding of the last quarter century certainly lend, at best, a great deal of credence to a theistic worldview and the Judeo-Christian one in particular. At worst there is a marked convergence between some of the cosmological tenants of atheism and Christianity that should provide pause for the atheist. That’s what I want to think about here. (more…)

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