Does God believe in Atheists?

Legal Evidence for the Truth of the Faith

The apostle exhorts Christians to “be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet. 3:15). The word translated “answer” here is the Greek apologia, “defense,” and from it comes the name of the theological discipline concerned with defending Christian truth-claims: apologetics. […]

Proving God’s Existence: Beside the Point?

Most textbooks on the philosophy of religion have a section on the existence of God. (For an example, see Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology, 3rd ed., edited by Louis P. Pojman, Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1998.) Usually, some kind of introductory statement is made about how thinkers have debated whether God’s existence can be demonstrated […]

What is Intelligent Design?

Intelligent design begins with a seemingly innocuous question: Can objects, even if nothing is known about how they arose, exhibit features that reliably signal the action of an intelligent cause? To see what’s at stake, consider Mount Rushmore. The evidence for Mount Rushmore’s design is direct-eyewitnesses saw the sculptor Gutzon Borglum spend the better part […]

Where Do We Start?

MR: Our objective in this conversation is to consider apologetics, which is essentially a defense of the faith as a courtroom attorney would present it. Scripture exhorts us to be ready to give an answer for the hope that we have to those who ask. Traditionally there have been three basic positions within mainstream Evangelicalism-especially […]

Without Excuse

You finally have that opportunity to explain the gospel to that co-worker who has been asking a few questions of late. She tells you that one of the things that keeps her from taking religion seriously is that each one claims absolute, final truth. Obviously, they can’t all be right, since they contradict each other […]

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