Retired homicide detective and former atheist J. Warner Wallace has a recent post on his blog that begins, I have many unbelieving friends who laugh when I claim the God of the Bible is both all-powerful and all-loving. As they read through the Old Testament, they point to a variety of passages and episodes where…
Dear Closet Atheist, I hope that this finds you well and that you have had time to think about what I have said in my previous response. You wrote, saying, That’s never something you like to hear, is it? So why would it be okay coming from your God? I pointed out that you were…
The longer that I interact with atheists, the more that I find that people who claim to be the arbiters and example of rational thought, simply don’t think hard about the arguments that they bring to the table. Maybe they have used them successfully against other believers in order to shut down the argument, or…
Dear Closet Atheist, I just read your letter and I have to say that I don’t think you realize exactly what it is you are arguing against. And I realize that this may have to do with a measure of rebellion on your part as a young person especially having been raised in a very…
A commonly asserted New Testament contradiction is Matthew 5:44 and Luke 14:26, which respectively read, I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, and If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even…
In any discussion of morality there is an inherent problem: who defines what is moral? To answer the question, one necessarily needs to define certain categories. These categories are filled in by facts and presuppositions that ultimately sum up and undergird any ethical system that provides groundwork moral reasoning. There are essentially two positions that…
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen the above graphic on several atheist posts and I think that it is worth taking time to look at it and respond to it as the clear fallacious argument that it presents. There’s a number of fallacies in it, a clear straw man to begin with that is…
