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...
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
J. dBudziszewski points out, The motto ‘Reason Alone!’ is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guaran...
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?
Einstein said that he wanted to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought, the rest are detail...
All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can’t get either credit or blame. Hence if God...
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
When the Roman governor Pilate asked Jesus What is truth? nearly 2,000 years ago, he didn’t wait for Jesus to respond.
One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs.
Many of the central ideas of the major religions cannot be reconciled, which gives the lie to the trendy tenet of pluralism that all religions at their core are the same.
God can intervene in the universe he created despite what David Hume says.
Geisler and Van Gordon have done both Christians and non-Christians a great service by writing Somewhere under the Rainbow: A Christian Look at Same-sex Marriage. They furnish concise yet comprehensiv...
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...
Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God. —JAMES TOUR,
In the Gospels—Jesus is the prophet to his people. In Acts and the Epistles—Jesus is the priest for his people. In the book of Revelation—Jesus is the King over his people.
If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One...
Andy Stanley put it well: My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I’m goin...
Natural selection may be able to explain the survival of a species, but it cannot explain the arrival of a species.
Third, the prohibition against questioning religious beliefs is also an absolute moral position. Why shouldn’t we question religious beliefs? Would it be immoral to do so? And if so, by whose standard...
Romans 9—Is this chapter contrary to God’s desire for all persons to be saved?