President Obama and Worldview Reflection

When President Obama addressed the American media and people this week, the true issue was not gun control, nor the mass killings that have happened in recent years. Instead, what should have struck the majority of listeners is the massive lack of reflection on his own worldview – because that ultimately is the issue at…

THE APOLOGETIC METHODOLOGY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL

INTRODUCTION        Apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, perhaps there is no other character in the Biblical narrative that has helped to shape the course of the Christian faith and human experience more than the apostle Paul. As a theologian, preacher and teacher, the apostle wholly dedicated his life to the proclamation of the good…

THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND MATERIALISM

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 and Materialism

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 and Materialism

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, Logical Absolutes and Materialism

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…