Continuing in this series of responses to J.H. McKenna’s post, we look at these jewels, The heavenly Father is like an earthy father who continually watches over his toddler children and allows them to handle sharp knives and then blames them and not himself when they cut themselves and each other. So, this is the…
I like to watch debates and talks between Christians and atheists, and Christians and other religions. Probably one that I have found to be interesting is what I believe is a weekly TV program called Ask Cliffe. The program is hosted by pastor and apologist Cliffe Knechtle, who I find to be somewhere between William…
Probably one of the most hotly contested and most controversial positions to look at, either philosophically or theologically, is the issue of human will. Philosophically, the issue comes down to whether one is a purely metaphysical naturalist, which makes the belief that metaphysical naturalism is true necessarily false, or a dualist of some sort. Theologically,…
As we continue in this series of responses to J.H. McKenna’s article, we look at at this “little thing”, Why are Judas and Pilate not counted as saints since they were the direct cause of Jesus’s saving death? Why are there no statues of Judas and Pilate? I’m just spit-balling here but I’m guessing that…
The next set of objections from J.H. McKenna’s article that make up this series of responses deals with issues in the gospels. And what happened to all those people who rose from their graves when Jesus rose from his grave? Did they return to their former occupations and to their their former (and remarried) husbands…
Continuing in this series of responses to the article by J.H. McKenna, the next “little thing that makes an atheist” is this, Many discrepancies between the gospels cannot be reconciled, as for instance their distinct stories of the Jesus’s resurrection. Who all went to the tomb? How many angels were there? What were the angels…
Following up on the success of their hit web-sitcom The Studio, the brothers and sisters over at Apologia Studios, whose motto is to produce Christ-centered, and gospel-focused entertainment and informational content, have launched a riotous new program in the vein of secular late night talk shows like The Tonight Show or Last Week Tonight. The…
Whenever there’s a discussion about morality, it will always come down to one of two points: that morality is either subjective or objective, or absolute. Most likely, given the unreflective nature of the majority of people, some will argue that morality is, ultimately, subjective or relative. The reason that many will make this argument is…
So in this 7th part of this series of responses to J.H. McKenna’s post, we look at the next series that he puts forward. An eternal tormenting punishment without rehabilitation for the offenders is perhaps the most immoral idea anyone ever conjured. And yet Jesus preached hell. It would be better for all of us…
Continuing in this series, we look at a few more of the issues raised by J.H. McKenna. It took only six days for God to make the universe, but God could not save humanity all at once in an instant in one day? Thousands of years preceded Jesus and thousands of years have followed Jesus—and…
Continuing in our series of responses to the arguments/questions presented by J.H. McKenna in his post over at Humanist Plus. This post will deal with two arguments that he gives that are rather similar in the argument that they present. He presents them thusly, If Jesus came to earth in order ‘to suffer’ for our…
Continuing in the series of responses to J.H. McKenna, which begins here, No system of jurisprudence can accept the innocent for the guilty, and so the substitutionary death of Jesus is not a moral idea. It is an idea based on pecuniary justice, of paying off a monetary fine for another person, which is permissible;…
