2010 Veritas Domain Theological Essays in Review

As 2010 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the last year’s worth of blogging. This last year, I’ve attempted to write some essays concerning theological method and the inter-relationship of doctrines and theological disciplines, while adopting the framework and using the tools/insight of Cornelius Van Til’s Presuppositional Apologetics and John [...]

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Can’t preach against homosexuality? Cumbria Police was wrong, payout to Christian street preacher

This happened in England The video is fascinating Praise God that the courts ruled that the preacher’s speech ought to be protected and the cop was wrong For more about this, read HERE One interesting note is that a gay rights activist even came out to speak on behalf of the preacher May law enforcement [...]

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Enns and Ancient Near East Literature: A CASE STUDY IN HIS INTERACTION WITH THE EYPTIAN TALE OF SINUHE

This essay is best read in light of the previous essay on Enns’ theological method HERE Introduction The topic of this paper will be on the role of ANE literature in Enns’ theological method that give rise to his bibliology.  Specifically, it will explore a case study of Enns’ handling of the Tale of Sinuhe [...]

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If Joseph and Mary were on Facebook back in the days of Jesus birth

This is quite good actually For those of you with Facebook, this is actually funny, and good too [HT: Defending Contending]

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Brave Austrian MP exposes Islamic and Turkish Policy

Mark my word: While the U.S. thinks of Islamization in terms of Al Qaeda and Whabi Sunni Islam, the more subtle radicalization is Neo-Ottoman Turkish Islamic Radicalization in Eastern Europe.

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Book Review: Lotus and the Cross, by Ravi Zacharias

The book is an imaginary conversation that Jesus would have with Buddha. This is Ravi Zacharias at his best, and my favorite of his books that I have read. Ravi opens up the book by situating it with a wonderful description of a Buddhist country, and while he never na…mes the country, one soon realize [...]

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Free Drawing: John MacArthur’s New Book “Slave”

For those of you who have missed the December 12th deadline on Grace to You free offer for John MacArthur’s new book titled, “Slave”, here’s your second chance at getting this book through Bryan Lopez’s blog. Go to his webpage for the details!  

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Free! Introduction to Apologetics Lectures (Presuppositional) by Jamin Hubner

This series of Lecture is by Jamin Hubner.  Most of you who know him, know him through his website Realapologetics.org and also as one of the blogger’s in Alpha Omega Ministries.  This series of lectures was for the Jesus Bible Institute at Rapid City, South Dakota. Introduction to Christian Apologetics (Jesus Bible Institute) Hubner – [...]

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Book Recommendation: God and Evil by Gordon Clark

The problem of evil and God is an age old discussion. It seems that among a whole of issues, two in particular need to be addressed as they are foundational for the debate: what is evil, and it’s nature; and the type of God which is espoused that makes evil compatible/incompatible with it. Clark’s work, [...]

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Book Recommendation: Presuppositional Apologetics, Stated and Defended by Greg Bahnsen

This is a book I can give a hearty recommendation for! While Bahnsen’s “Always Ready” has been read widely than perhaps any of his other works, I think this current volume by Bahnsen is much more superior to “Always Ready” and recommended as the first work to read as an introduction to Bahnsen’s work.  The [...]

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Free Ecclesiastes Lessons on PDF by Old Testament Scholar William Barrick

Dr. William B. Barrick, Old Testament professor at The Master’s Seminary, has uploaded the PDF for the book of Ecclesiastes Word has it, that he is currently working on a commentary on this book as well. On another note, I think it would be an enjoyable project for a synthesis on great exegesis be done [...]

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Christmas wish list in Presuppositional Christian Apologetics

For all of you into Presuppositional Apologetics, just getting started or want to learn more about it, here’s my list of need to get books that is (key word that follows) *GIFT FRIENDLY*. Some of them are linked with my review.  I will be complete my review of each book sometime this week. So do [...]

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Book Review: Five Views of Apologetics

What follows is a review from a presuppositionalist’s perspective. This is a good book when it comes to seeing how the leading Christian apologist would go about articulating their respect school of apologetics, and their critiques of the other schools.  The editor Steven Cowan is to be commended in the introduction of giving a brief [...]

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Moral Relativism (Lynching not Wrong)

According to this philosophy professor (Susan Dwyer) she does not know if its wrong to murder the Jews or wrong to lynch black men or genocide is wrong. She even gave a justification for Hitler’s action such as pragmatic, non-moral and political. She seems to need an answer to the fundamental moral question before she [...]

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