“Heaven is for Real”; Fiction About Heaven Labeled Non-Fiction is Not
David Platt talking on why “Heaven is For Real” and other books like it extort our hopes, waste our money, and devalue our scriptures—and thus should be ignored by Christians.
Category Archives: Faith
Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: God and The Problem of Suffering
Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: Does Suffering Prove the God of the Bible Doesn’t Exist?
A captivating debate. It does begin to spin out of control come time for the question/answer session, especially when they get to the topic of moral prerogatives.
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More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
More People Are Reading of Noah in the Bible After the Film’s Release
Say what you want about the faithfulness of the Noah film to the text. The film is getting more people to read the text itself.
A Review of Noah
“The Pursuit of Perfection: grace” by Jesse Robertson
from “The Pursuit of Perfection: Grace” by Jesse Robertson
“Knowledge and obedience, however, begin small and grow if we are truly trusting and loving God. He is on our side. It makes no sense to believe that God loved us so much that he sent his Son to die for us, and that he then constructed a labyrinth of doctrine that could only be negotiated successfully if one made correct assumptions and inferences, or that he left us on our own to finish an obstacle course of temptations.”
-Jesse Robertson
A Shot of Faith To The Head: The Full Review
_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book
Below are all my review of A Shot of Faith to the Head, a good book with a bad title:
Intro
Part 1: Is Belief in God Irrational?
Intermission: The Art of Rational Self-Defense
Part 2: Does Science Prove that God Does Not Exist?
Part 3: Does Evil Prove that God Does Not Exist?
Conclusion
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_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Conclusion
_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Conclusion
As Mitch Stokes reasoned in his book, there are three evidential reasons for why belief in God is rational:
- The universe is rational, and we are rationally able to comprehend and communicate it’s rationality, which reflects a rational being, a perfect form that created the physical world to be rational.
- The universe looks designed, and not only that—it also has no physical (non-supernatural) explanation for why it looks designed, which leads us to accepting a supernatural explanation for the designed universe.
- Humanity comprehends and communicates absolute moral standards, concepts of good and evil that have no physical explanation or, more importantly, physical reason for an ought, which points us to a supernatural being that has instilled a sense of morality.
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_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Part 3: “Evil and Suffering Show There’s No God”
_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Part 3: “Evil and Suffering Show There’s No God”
“Many of the atheists’ grievances are moral ones, founded upon an acute sense of ethical superiority,” says Stokes. Sometimes it’s not about science at all, or at least not primarily. Sometimes it’s about the heart. Atheists have decided that the world is not to their liking, and that it is either God’s fault, or he’s not real to begin with.
[See the last post on whether science proves God doesn’t exist]
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_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Part 2: “Science Has Shown There is No God”
_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Part 2: “Science Has Shown There is No God”
An official statement from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences:
“Science is a way of knowing about the natural world. It is limited to explaining the natural world through natural causes. Science can say nothing about the supernatural. Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral.”
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_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Intermission
_A Shot of Faith To The Head_: Bad Title, Great Book: Intermission—Argumentation and Defense
“Objections”
But wait. Aren’t we ultimately saying, if we follow the line of reasoning from our previous post, that the Christian definition of faith is belief without evidence? Recall that everyone operates on faith of some sort. Also recall that not in every field does absence of evidence prove evidence of absence.
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