evidence

  • Christian Apologetics: Starting Point and Analogical Thought

    “The Thoughts of the Righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful” (Prov. 12:5; NASB).1 “Hence the Christian alternative to the hopelessness of autonomous reasoning is revelational epistemology or ‘analogical thinking.’ This requires beginning with God’s Word as the most certain truth available to man and basing all reasoning upon it.” –Greg…

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  • Something

    Something

    “Something is eternal. Something has always been and always will be. Nothing comes from nothing, and since we are looking around at a great deal of something, all around us, in every direction, then something must have always been. The question before us therefore concerns whether that everlasting something is personal or impersonal.” Doug Wilson,…

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  • Evidence & Arrogance: Two Strange Bedfellows

    I’ll probably get myself in trouble for saying this, but it needs to be said. It isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last time either. But much of Christian apologetics is a joke. Not the LOL (laugh out loud) variety, but the kind that is prefaced by an underlying arrogance. “Arrogance, what…

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  • Debate over the use of Evidence in Christian Witnessing: the Cross and Resurrection of Christ

    Not too long ago (sometime back in May) Andy Stanley and Jeff Durbin, two notable pastors with their own perspective ministries, had a dialogue on the Premiere Christian radio program Unbelievable, with Justin Brierley (here). One of the primary focuses of the discussion dealt with apologetic methodologies. At one point during the interchange Stanley challenged…

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  • Knowledge of God not Possible without Revelation

    Suppose God never chose to reveal Himself to His creation. He never spoke to us. He never had His Word(s) written down and preserved for us in a book. Would we know Him? Would it be possible to know Him? God by His very nature is immaterial. He has no physical substance. He is Spirit.…

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