Tea Requires Water: An Analogy (via Mike Robinson) A cup of tea is wet, quenches the thirst, spills, and freezes. Water is wet, quenches the thirst, spills, and freezes. However, water doesn’t need tea to be water. The tea needs water to be tea. Drinkable tea presupposes and requires water. And the laws of logic…
One of the things that troubles me in the “homosexuality and the Bible” discussion is the lack of integrity of much of the homosexual scholarship. One example of this comes to the student of the Bible in 1 Cor 6.9. I was recently reading an article where the following was stated; Modern translations of the…
As I was fueling up my van this morning at a local corner store, I noticed a SUV pull into the parking lot with a great deal of bumper stickers. Catching my attention was one sticker in particular, which was in the shape of the Christian “fish” symbol with feet that read, “DARWIN.” As I…
Just a quick thought. When one considers that the Christian faith is the only worldview that can account for the pre-conditions of human experience, one has to wonder how we could be so timid at times in declaring this truth to the world. Often, we simply attempt to befriend the general public, and in doing…
This question is indeed excellent, in that one must look at the historical context and the intent of the original authors to determine what and how these “persecution” passages are to be applied. That is, one must apply a consistent hermeneutic to the ascribed verses that deal with this subject. To begin the evaluation on…
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL The final area of internal critique of the materialistic worldview comes via the problem of evil. Intimately tied to the subject of objective morality, this issue for the Materialist is seemingly insurmountable given their foundational presuppositions. First, the recognition that evil does exist implies that there is an objective standard…
The Uniformity of Nature Another major issue that develops when evaluating materialistic worldview falls into the area of how the adherent to this view justifies the Inductive Principle. First, how can the materialist utilize particular experience to formulate generalized conclusions about nature and reality? Second, how can the unbeliever, who believes that at its…
Moral Absolutes The second realm of law that the materialistic universe cannot justify falls into the area of moral absolutes. Like logical laws/absolutes, moral absolutes are the universal, abstract and invariant standard that undergirds objective ethical claims. They are absolute in the sense that they are universally binding, they are immaterial in nature and…
Transcendentals The understanding of a transcendental is generally put forth in one of three ways in modern thought. First, a transcendental can refer to that which is transcendent, such as the existence of the Christian God, Allah of the Islamic faith or deistic gods outside of the created order. Next, a transcendental may be…
Below is a brief seminary essay which explains the basic doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society) and provides an apologetic against those basic doctrines . I hope you find this educational and edifying and remember to read the footnotes, because when I produced this essay, there was a strict page limit,…
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