Last week I had a Gospel Disproof on the topic of “salvation by faith,” and a believer by the name of Eric has been kind enough to offer me a Christian response to the points I’ve raised. Since one of the points he raises repeatedly is that I haven’t said enough about certain topics, I …
Monthly Archive: January 2012
Jan 22 2012
Eyewitness
Here’s an lightly-edited excerpt from this week’s installment of my chapter-by-chapter analysis of William Lane Craig’s book, On Guard: In a study published in 2003 [PDF], psychology researchers Gary Wells and Elizabeth Loftus gave an example of how eyewitness testimony can evolve over time. A young woman was sexually assaulted and her friend was murdered. …
Jan 20 2012
Gospel Disproof #32: Salvation by faith
In Gospel Disproof #28 we looked at conditional salvation and how bizarre it was to suppose that a loving and self-sufficient Father would create a situation where His beloved children would go to Hell forever unless they met certain rarely-obtained conditions. As a parenting scenario, it just doesn’t work, but by an odd coincidence it …
Jan 19 2012
Gospel Disproof #31: Burning coals
Ask the average layman who Jesus was, and if they’re a more secular/liberal sort of person you’ll probably hear that he was a “great moral teacher.” Ironically, however, the one uniquely Christian moral principle he taught was this: But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate …
Jan 18 2012
“By their fruits you shall know them”
Not original with me, but too good not to share. I’m putting it below the fold due to the sheer size of the image.
Jan 18 2012
Exercise
Freedom is like a muscle: if you don’t exercise it, you lose it. We can’t just sit back and expect the First Amendment to protect us. If all that stands between the wealthy and their profits is a “goddamn piece of paper,” they will find a way around it. They’ll even buy whatever legislative influence …
Jan 17 2012
A significant loophole
I got into an interesting discussion with Jayman777 over at Evangelical Realism on the topic of whether the New Testament documents can be considered independent accounts of first century events. After I pointed out that the NT documents are derived from a common source (church tradition), Jayman replied: [C]laiming that NT authors are not independent …
Jan 16 2012
On the effectiveness of prayer
From time to time various people attempt to study the effect of prayer under real-world conditions, and it occurs to me that we have ideal conditions for undertaking such a study right now. The Cranston West High School has recently concluded a 48-year experiment in which students were exposed to a specific “School Prayer” on …
Jan 15 2012
Counting criteria
History buffs and/or masochists may be interested in this week’s look at Chapter 8 of William Lane Craig’s On Guard, over at Evangelical Realism. Enjoy.
Jan 14 2012
Now there’s a surprise
You’ll never guess how Christians are reacting to the successful lawsuit against the School Prayer mural formerly hanging in Cranston High School West. The uncle of the 16-year-old Cranston West student and victorious plaintiff at the forefront of the school prayer mural case said his niece is the victim of cyberbullying and police and school …
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