The fact of evil in the world is perhaps the primary reason that people start down the road of concluding that there is no God. But God is implied in the very act of making the distinction between good and evil. Positing a Law Giver Ravi Zacharias said this: When you say there’s too much […]
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A Severe God?
Some atheists reject the claims of Christianity because the God they read about in the Bible seems harsh. Implicit in such a step, however, is that the Bible must be the word of God. Otherwise, the logical thing to do would be to reject the Bible as being authoritative about God; not to reject God. […]
Read more...The Problem of Good
“The Problem of Evil” Possibly the greatest impediment to theistic belief is the presence of evil in the world. For atheists, it is “the problem of evil,” by which they mean that the existence of evil refutes the existence of God. When they say “evil,” they don’t just mean immoral bad things, but all bad […]
Read more...If There is No God
Atheists’ Affirmative Beliefs Your friend has rejected religion. There is not a God, he believes. There is not a Creator of the universe. There is not a Sustainer of it. There is not a God present among us in some way. There is not a God component to our conscious self-awareness. There is not a transcendent […]
Read more...Review: God is Not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens
The late Christopher Hitchens worked the last years of his life as a professional atheist, going from debate to debate to catechize devotees of his brand of fiery, witty godlessness. Hitchens’ belief about the God he denied There’s a curious element to Hitchens’ debate appearances and to his writings on the subject of atheism as […]
Read more...Review (Part Six): The Experience of God – Being Consciousness Bliss, by David Bentley Hart
Having explained how we approach the natural only over the interval of the supernatural, Hart turns to the incoherency of materialism. Absolute truth The human longing for truth involves a loyalty to an ultimate ideal, and that ultimate ideal beckons to us from beyond the totality of beings. We would not care at all about […]
Read more...Review: Living the Secular Life, by Phil Zuckerman
This book is intended as a guidebook to living without religion. It does that by using anecdotal illustrations for secularist beliefs, and sprinkling in various institutional helps for how one might live as an avowed atheist. Along the way, it unintentionally reveals the utter bankruptcy of the secularist point of view. Zuckerman writes for materialists […]
Read more...The Trapped Woman
These are reflections on a sermon of the same name, by Jason Harris, pastor of Central Presbyterian Church, New York City, February 15, 2015. We understand the text at John 7:53 through 8:11 to be about how we should not judge others. This is the story of the woman caught in adultery. The church leaders […]
Read more...Review: The Rage Against God, by Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens is the brother of the late Christopher Hitchens. Christopher was famous in the latter years of his life as, essentially, a professional atheist. Peter Hitchens’s book begins as an attempt to round out his arguments in the one debate on the subject he had with Christopher (available on youtube) because he, Peter, felt […]
Read more...Review: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is certainly incendiary, and it’s not just because he makes free use of acerbic anti-Christian language. It’s also because he would advocate prior restraint on free speech (chapter 1); considers religious teaching to children to be child abuse (chapter 9); and lays violence at the feet of religion while excusing the bridle-high materialist […]
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