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What Atheists Fear Most
"Unabashed atheist" Ron Reagan, Jr.'s recent commercial in behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation raises a common theme amongst atheists: the lack of fear. In his words, Mr. Reagan is a "lifelong atheist" who is "not afraid of burning in hell." Ron Reagan is...
It is Well with My Soul
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash What do we do when life hurts? Sometimes life hurts so much that we question the existence of God. How could the omniscient and omnipotent God allow such hardship to exist? The academic pursuit of an answer to these questions yields...
Did Pixies Create the Universe?
Every now and then, I like to call into an atheist online call-in show named Talk Heathen. I do this because I want to know what my atheist friends think about God, Jesus, the Bible, morality, etc. This past summer, I had the opportunity to visit the Atheist...
Why Learn Apologetics?
Guest Writer: Nathanael Elmshaeuser Exegesis. Hermeneutics. Eschatology. Sounds fun, right? A lot of us have this same idea that apologetics is just another long word that means we’ll have to do even MORE study than we already do. I mean, do we really NEED...
Philosophy 101: You Are Wrong About Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtUJC6dbTw&feature=youtu.be Start at 3:06 You Are Wrong About Everything What if on the first day of your Philosophy 101 class your professor stood up and said, “You are wrong about everything.” According to one professor (see the...
The Empty Tomb and the Testimony of Women
Foundational to the Christian faith is the Bible claim that Jesus’ tomb was found empty on the third day. This fact entails Christ’s resurrection and validates the claims to deity made about him in prophecy and in his own teaching ministry. Notice the following...
ACCORDING TO WHAT SCRIPTURES? PART 1– PROPHECY OF JESUS’ RESURRECTION IN PSALM 16:10
In 1 Corinthians 15:4, the Bible says that Jesus’ resurrection was “according to the Scriptures.” But what Scriptures? Many scholars have neglected or ignored this question. Others claim that the New Testament authors just read Jesus’ resurrection into Old Testament...
Does Poor Design Negate a Cosmic Designer?
Poor design I remember way back when I was a student at Cal State Fullerton taking a Biopsychology class. During the lab portion of the class, the professor, while detailing the brain structures responsible for sensation, got a bit sidetracked talking about how the...
Infinity War—Why the Universe is Not Eternal
To demonstrate that God does not exist and is not the best explanation for the existence of the universe, many skeptics have asserted that the universe could be infinitely old. By infinite, they mean the universe has been around for forever. If it is true that...
Why the Old Testament Doesn’t Mention the Trinity
Discussing the Trinity can prove challenging. Passages supporting Trinitarian monotheism appear in many places in the New Testament (John 1:14; 10:30; 14:9-11; Colossians 2:9; cf. Isaiah 9:6). However, the Trinity does not appear in an explicit form in the Old...