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  • A Concise Review of The Greatest Show on Earth

    Hopefully this post can live up to its title and actually be concise and to the point and not sprawling and wordy. Much of today relies on yesterday’s ideas about logic, so if you haven’t read that, go back and read A Few Thoughts on Logic. Now that you’ve done that, we can more forward…

  • A Few Thoughts on Logic

    This basis of this post has been brewing for quite a while, but it didn’t seem like it would make a long enough post to actually do until now. This will have two parts, a brief discussion of the two common types of arguments and how they are misconstrued, followed by a discussion of which…

  • Genesis: Backgrounds (B)

    [This post is part of the Genesis series] Hopefully we won’t need a (C) to unpack the context of Genesis 1. As I remember, point (C) can tend to stir up controversy. The fundamental point from the last post to keep in mind as we go on is that for something to exist in the ancient world,…

  • Genesis: Backgrounds (A)

    [This post is part of the Genesis series] Before we can really meaningfully understand what is going on in Genesis, we need to establish some sort of context. The book itself makes the most sense as the introduction to the rest of the Pentateuch as written by Moses. I realize there are other options for authorship, but…

  • The Enthymeme of Unbelief

    Rather than blogging over the last week, most of my attention was diverted to the comment thread on Idolatry: Pharisees (C). If I wanted to I suppose, I could highlight most of my arguments throughout and use as an example of apologetics, both in the historical sense of apologetics from history and in the philosophical…

  • Thoughts on Genesis

    [This post is part of the Genesis series] Howard Hendricks, who is a much distinguished teacher of Christian Education here at Dallas Seminary has been quoted as saying that “In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering,” Unfortunately, this is painfully true in more areas that just one. However, one area that is…

  • Reflections on Controversy

    Rather than push ahead with other topics, once again it seemed like it might be better to ruminate a bit over the dialogue that I had with Pelagian7 over the weekend. You can read the comment string here if you would like, as it will make sense of the following commentary on it. For starters,…

  • An Application of the Epistemological Argument

    A couple of days ago, we explored the idea of an epistemological argument for the existence of God. In Philosophy of Religion class today, we were examining the contents of the argument for God from the fine tuning of the universe for the existence of life. The basic idea (and this is probably an oversimplification)…

  • An Epistemological Argument

    In Philsophy of Religion class, we are talking through the arguments for the existence of God. So far, we have seen how Paley’s rendering of the teleological argument is quite frankly, a bad argument as far as arguments go. Now this isn’t to deny that we believe the universe is designed by God, but that…

  • The Myth of the Good Heart: Syncretism

    [This post is part of the Idolatry series] Syncretism is the blending of differing philosophies into a heterogeneous whole. In the context of Christianity it is blending Christian and non-Christian beliefs and practices (Michael Horton, Christless Christianity, 167). In the case of Waking the Dead (here on out WTD), we see a core of seemingly traditional ideas…