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Christian Theism and the Problem of Evil

The Christian tradition stands upon thousands of years of considering the problem of evil. The biblical God, his worshippers claim, is all-powerful. He can do whatever he like and has the exhaustive ability to step in in any situation. The Christian God also has the ability to step in at any moment and rectify any [...]
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Second Long Response to John Fensel

No Constructive Alternative To end my last argument, I made a prediction. I said that John would not give us a constructive account of morality, but would simply engage in negative criticism. Unfortunately, I was right. John has not answered any of the big questions about morality: where it comes from, why it is binding [...]
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Heritage gave me free ice cream.

I am walking down the oval when I pass two girls at a table. Would I like some free ice cream? Yes I would like some free ice cream! What is the reason that you are giving out free ice cream? We’re a church. Which church? Heritage. Do you have a church? Yes, I am [...]
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What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).

Like a serpent in a garden, John Fensel has posed an old question in new garb: “Do Moral Obligations really follow from God’s Existence?“ In 1504 words, his answer is “No.” Attempting to answer questions including, “What is obligation?” and “What is moral?”, he neglects the big question: “What is God?” The shorter Westminster Catechism replies, [...]
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Thoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”

Around 2 a.m. a month ago, in a smoke-filled hookah bar in Orlando, Florida, I found myself engaged in a conversation about religion and politics with a man who spent his career at the intersection between the two (I count his brief stint as a bar-tender as religious/political work in addition to his more overtly [...]
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Life in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on Logical Fallacies

John and I have been publicly corresponding for five months on a wide variety of issues. Recently, he has waded into economics way over his head, asserting paradoxically that (1) it it the government’s duty to provide a highly regulated sort of currency called food stamps to avoid an imaginary crisis of malnutrition in the [...]
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an error in Charles A Crane’s ‘Christianity and Mormonism’

I am currently reading Charles A Crane’s Christianity and Mormonism, in which Charles A Crane makes his case against Mormonism. On the level I think he is right — that the LDS church makes some highly unlikely historical claims, especially with regard to the Book of Mormon. But I must take exception to something he [...]
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On Francis Schaeffer’s ‘the God who is there’

I saw today that I’d not yet read Schaeffer’s God who is there, so I read it. Related Posts:Christian Reconstructionism Series, Part 2: Francis SchaefferTypos of ‘A Christian Theory of Knowledge’ by Cornelius Van TilChristian Reconstructionism Series, Part 1: Cornelius Van TilLife in a World of Heuristic — A Response (#4) to John Fensel on [...]
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On ‘A Christian Theory of Knowledge’, by Cornelius Van Til

I and a secular friend have been going back and forth on the nature of truth in a debate which, oddly enough, started over schooling. Beneath the issues that conservatives and liberals think they’re battling over, there lies a deeper source of contention: the presuppositions or conceptual frameworks through which conservatives and liberals view the [...]
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the religious status of foreigners in isaiah 19

‘You cross land and sea to make one proselyte . . .’, Jesus said to the scribe and Pharisees. You have heard it said that Judaism is an ethnic religion which does not proselytize, while Christianity is a proselytizing religion which does not recognize ethnicity. The truth is more complicated. And you don’t have to [...]
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