Audio Message: Scriptures: Matthew 26:47-56; Mark 12:18-27; Luke 4:16-21 Luke 24:44-48; John 7:38-42; John 10:34-36; John 13:18-19; John 17:9-17 Service Music Opening Selection: “Speak To My…… Read more “God’s Word and Contradictions: Sworn Enemies, Part 1”
Shedding Light on “Shedding Light on the Light of the World”: Refuting Secular Humanism
Of course, Christ had followed a long procession of man-gods in the ancient world, many of whom were said to have performed prodigies and who shared with…… Read more “Shedding Light on “Shedding Light on the Light of the World”: Refuting Secular Humanism”
“Before the rooster crows”: reconciling Jesus’ prediction in Mark 14 and Matthew 26
In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus tells Peter that he will deny him three times “before the cock crows twice.” In Matthew’s Gospel he tells him that it will…… Read more ““Before the rooster crows”: reconciling Jesus’ prediction in Mark 14 and Matthew 26″
Abiathar and Ahimelech: Reconciling 1 Samuel 21:1-6 and Mark 2:26
1 Samuel 21:1-6 and Mark 2:23-27 are said to contradict regarding who was priest at the time David eats the showbread. We reconcile the two names.
Murdering the future: Richard Dawkins and The Great Beethoven Fallacy
The anti-abortionist’s next move in the verbal chess game usually goes something like this. The point is not whether a human embryo can or cannot suffer at…… Read more “Murdering the future: Richard Dawkins and The Great Beethoven Fallacy”
Richard Dawkins: It’s illogical to demand scientific evidence for scientific claims
Many evolutionary transitions are elegantly documented by more or less continuous series of gradually changing intermediate fossils. Some are not, and these are the famous ‘gaps’. Michael…… Read more “Richard Dawkins: It’s illogical to demand scientific evidence for scientific claims”
“Poor Midianites”? Why Dawkins’s evaluation of their slaughter in the Old Testament is half-baked
It’s a common tactic to see skeptics point to the slaughtering of nations while overlooking the nations’ immorality and the divine justice against them.
Does God’s Word contradict? Come find out on Doctrine Sunday, January 7th
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The Illusion of Design: Dawkins’ anti-naturalist argument
Dawkins: “It looks designed, but it’s an illusion. You think it’s designed, but you’re deluded. As if my book, The God Delusion, isn’t a dead giveaway…”
“Who Designed the Designer?”: the mixing categories fallacy
If “who baked the baker,” “who cooked the cook,” or “who wrote the writer” aren’t valid questions, then Dawkins’s question about the Designer is seriously illogical.
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