Difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.
To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the...
The Saudis may be teaching that Jews are pigs, but in our country, by means of a one-sided biology curriculum, we teach kids that there’s really no difference between any human being and a pig. After...
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact! —RON CARLSON
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant. He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was 30. Then, for three years, he was an itinerant preacher. He n...
Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it’s true for all people, at all times, in all places.
Chapter 7: In The New Testament Documents Jesus Claimed to be God
Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory...
As we look at the evidence in the ensuing chapters, we’ll see that conclusions such as God exists and the Bible is true are certain beyond reasonable doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a...
We humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But
Regardless of what the real truth is concerning religion and morality, our lives are greatly affected by it today and perhaps even in eternity.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ —C. S. LEWIS
Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3
One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.
On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there’s no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn’t matter how you live...
In the Old Testament the Rose of Sharon is just budding, but in the New Testament it is in full bloom. The whole Bible is all about Jesus.
If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?
Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don’t shoot unless they’re absolutely sure they won’t kill an innocent hu...
Christians are not supposed to just have faith. Christians are commanded to know what they believe and why they believe it. They are commanded to give answers to those who ask (1 Pet. 3:15), and to de...