Update on Blog (Theme and Picture)

We have been experimenting with the different blog themes available and the picture on the header. This blog theme with the two columns seems to fit what we are doing here well. The posting column is large enough for reading and the extra column is small enough for links that ought not to distract from the postings.

The picture on the header from left to right,

1. The stoning of Steven

2. The crucifixion of Peter

3. The beheading of Paul

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Apologetics Discussion

Apologetics.com posted a discussion on Presuppositionalism vs Evidential/Classical.

HT: Countercult

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Roe vs Wade – the anniversary of the American Holocaust

In light of the anniversary of Roe vs Wade let us not forget the millions that was butchered. Check out this graphic.

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Did Francis Schaeffer Believe Rushdoony Was Crazy?

Not everyone is aware that Francis Schaeffer has been influenced by Rushdoony.

Francis Schaeffer’s son, Franky, have recently stated in an interview that his father thought Rushdoony was crazy.

Chalcedon Ministries have responded in the link below with how some of the things he stated just does not add up:

http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2008/01/did-francis-schaeffer-believe-rushdoony.php

You might not like Theonomy, but there should be a level of Grace that ought to be practice, and not making things up.

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Unexpected Apologetics in Sex and Gender

This quarter I’m enrolled in a sex and gender class, thinking I would be forcing myself to grow stronger in my studies about the biblical role of men and women.

Instead I find myself studying about evolution, and the support for evolution in the first chapter of the textbook. Listening to lectures covering fossils such as “Java man” and “Lucy”, and watching a full hour or so of a DVD from the History Channel about the 1850’s to present search for the missing link.

I haven’t had a chance to study any of it yet but feel overloaded with more and more things to research and refute. I’ve been writing some paragraphs in my lecture notes on the side and with possible leads for future study. However, I am still trying to catch up to my school work. Hopefully this weekend, I’ll write a bit of what I’ve been thinking about as a post.

This coverage of Evolution has increased my desire to study a biblical view of anthropology and geology but it’ll probably have to wait till after I graduate.

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THE IGNORANCE OF THE AVERAGE AMERICANS

I have to give one warning that there is one f-word cuss word in this video.

I post it up for the purpose to show how ignorant the average Americans can be. 

As Christians, we ought to be informed and not be ignorant of the world around us.

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JAMES WHITE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO PURSUE PHD. in ISLAMIC STUDY

http://www.aomin.org/podcasts/20080110fta.mp3

James White during the “DIVIDING LINE” announced that he will be planning to work on his PHD on Islamic Studies.

He also discusses during the show why he is pursuing this and puts into perspective why it would be important that he is doing this.  To this I agree.

We can all pray for him, as this would be busy for his ministry (as if it’s not already, with all his responses to everybody from Arminians to Liberalism and the Cults.

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Is Barak Obama a Muslim?

Mr Obama’s middle name is Hussein which is a Muslim name. Since his stepfather was an Indonesian Muslim, it is natural for the son to adopt the religion of the father (especially in Islam). Adopting something from your father does not mean you have to believe in it. However, in Islam it is not the case. If at any time in one’s life were to ever be a Muslim – you are a Muslim.

Was Obama ever a Muslim? He says he is a “Christian” but does that mean he has denied and recant from being a Muslim? If he was, he is an apostate of Islam. The consequences of apostasy is severe in Islam. I hope that this issue will get the necessary coverage so that the issue of apostasy in Islam will be exposed.

Daniel Pipes wrote an interesting article regarding Obama’s Islam,

• “Interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends show that Obama was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia” – implying he was an irregularly practicing Muslim.
• “Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers, a few neighbors said” – confirming that he did pray in the mosque.
• “Obama’s 3^rd-grade teacher at the Catholic school, who lived near the family [said that] ‘Rarely, Barry went to the mosque with Lolo'” – confirming that Obama attended mosque services.

A few verses from the Hadith on apostasy in Islam,

• Muslim 623 The Prophet said: “It is not permissible to take the life of a Muslim except in one of the three cases: the married adulterer, a life for a life (if the person is Muslim), and the deserter of Islam.”
• Bukhari 9:89:271 A man embraced Islam and then reverted back to Judaism Mu’adh said: “I will not sit down unless you kill him as it is the verdict of Allah and His Apostle”

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LA TIMES ARTICLE: CHANGING ABORTION PRONOUN

Changing abortion’s pronoun 

Jason Baier talks often to the little boy he calls Jamie. He imagines this boy — his son — with blond hair and green eyes, chubby cheeks, a sweet smile.

But he’ll never know for sure.

His fiancee’s sister told him about the abortion after it was over. Baier remembers that he cried. The next weeks and months go black. He knows he drank far too much. He and his fiancee fought until they broke up. “I hated the world,” he said.

Baier, 36, still longs for the child who might have been, with an intensity that bewilders him: “How can I miss something I never even held?”

These days, he channels the grief into activism in a burgeoning movement of “post-abortive men.” Abortion is usually portrayed as a woman’s issue: her body, her choice, her relief or her regret. This new movement — both political and deeply personal in nature — contends that the pronoun is all wrong.

“We had abortions,” said Mark B. Morrow, a Christian counselor. “I’ve had abortions.”

Morrow spoke to more than 150 antiabortion activists gathered recently in San Francisco for what was billed as the first national conference on men and abortion. Participants — mostly counselors and clergy — heard two days of lectures on topics such as “Medicating the Pain of Lost Fatherhood” and “Forgiveness Therapy With Post-Abortion Men.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-menabort7jan07,0,5749127.story?page=1&coll=la-home-center

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Abortion Debate

 

Is Abortion Morally Justifiable in a Free Society?

Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College vs David Boonin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC-Boulder.

The debate in audio or video.

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Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

Sam Shamoun is to be congratulated for a good work. He was able to stay on the topic and gave a good presentation and rebuttal on his part. I believe the Muslim debater is the first in the U.S to debate on “Is Islam a Religion of Peace?”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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VAN TIL SPEAKS FROM THE GRAVE: Intellectual Compacity

Some words from Dr. Van Til, the fame Christian professor from Westminister Seminary:

“…we should notice that there are thousadns who do not engage in intellectual consideration of the truth to any great extent, no so much because they are necessarily indifferent to such things by nature as because they are necessarily indifferent to such thigs by nature as because they are unsuited to it. With respect to these, it is obvious that it would be useless to present the intellectual argument for Chrisitan theism in any subtle and detailed form. Nor is this necessary. A simple presentation of the truth in positive form, and once more largely by way of testimony, may be all that is required. Chirstianity is not for a few elite intellectualists. Its message is to the simple and to the learned. The argument must therefore be adapted to each one’s mental capacity. And it should not be forgotten that the difference between the larned and the unlearned is, after all, very small when it comes to a consideration of ultimate questions. The learned may have more facts at his disposal and be more skilled in the use of the syllogism, but when it comes to a consideration of the meaning of any one fact or of all facts put together, all this refinement does not bring him very far.” (Van TIl’s Apologetics: Readings and Analysis, pg. 477 through 478)

Thus, the Christian apologist must be equip in his presentation for the simple and the more sophisticated audience. A roubust Apologetics system must ultimately then be focused upon the basic (by that we do not mean ‘simplistic’, but foundational) ultimate commitment in a worldview. By majoring in these, he is equip. He must also be able to explain abstract concepts to even the kids in his church’s sunday school in a way they can understand. Yet, he continues to learn and realize that he must be teachable in order to fulfill the mandate of being “Always be prepared”.

Ultimately, the importance of the gospel must not be missed in apologetics engagement. If there is no objections, or when the hostile heckling of unbelief has been silence, the gospel must be preached, in all its glory. Let no one ever mistaken that Christian apologetics somehow imply that it is a faith for only those who have a grasp in philosophy, etc.

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APOLOGETICS.COM: Who Is Alvin Plantinga?:

For those of you who have heard of Alvin Plantinga but do not really know who he is and want an audio rundown of this contemporary Christian philosopher, over at Apologetics.com they have an MP3 audio show sometime this past summer

http://www.apologetics.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=156

THough it cost $1.99, I think it is worth it.

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Evangelicals and Muslims Together?

Is this another ECT (Evangelicals and Catholics Together)?

Albert Mohler and Patrick Sookhdeo spoke out against such nonsense. Just check out your favorite theologians if they sign it.

HT: Slice of Laodicea

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Compass Direct News: Indian Christian Persecution

I’ve just prayed for our fellow brothers and sisters in India…

A news from the front of CHristian persecution in INdia…

http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead〈=en&length=long&idelement=&backpage=&critere=&countryname=&rowcur=

Compass direct News reported that “Emerging facts indicate that India’s largest spate of anti-Christian violence, which has rendered thousands homeless in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, was preplanned. ”

May the gospel advance in that region of India, and the Lord save many of those who were violent to being a new creation, where they would peacefully advance the gospel!

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