Posted in Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, Theology on November 30, 2021| 23 Comments »
I have blogged a few book reviews recently and I plan to review a few more books as part of my aim to finish my goal of reading books for the year. I thought I take this time to state three reasons why I as a Christian blog book reviews.
What are the reasons?
Posted in Book Review, christian apologetics, Christian case making, Christian worldview, Christianity, Jim Warner Wallace, Theology, tagged Apologetics, apologetics methodology, Christianity, Cold Case Christianity, Jim Warner Wallace on November 29, 2021| 39 Comments »
J. Warner Wallace. Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, September 21, 2021. 326 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
What does a top tier cold case detective think about the veracity of Christianity? In this book by Jim Warner Wallace he presents to readers his apologetics for the Christian faith but with a unique approach using the methods and analogy of a detective investigating a missing person murder case. An atheist turned Christian Jim Warner Wallace’s background as a police officer, detective, architect and artist is all brought to bear in this book as he presents something that is compelling both intellectually and also hard to put down in terms of human interests. If you have read other books by Jim Warner Wallace before be assured this is not another book that rehashes things he’s previously said and wrote; in fact I was stunned at how incredibly comprehensive and fresh this book was and I was very impressed with his materials from start to finish.
Posted in Christianity, Church, God, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Missions, Reformed, Sunday, Theology, tagged Christianity, Church, God, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Missions, Reformed, Sunday, Theology on November 28, 2021| 28 Comments »
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray that the Church does not get caught into material with the Advent Season.
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Hiram, Jonah, Reformed, Solomon, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Hiram, Reformed, Solomon, Theology on November 27, 2021| 31 Comments »
For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: How many overseers did Solomon have?
Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes shows a Bible contradiction:
“besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were in charge of the project and ruled over the people who were doing the work.” (1 Kings 5:16)
“He appointed seventy thousand of them to carry loads and eighty thousand to quarry stones in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.” (2 Chronicles 2:18)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:
Posted in Book Review, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, James Anderson, John Frame, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged book review, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Greg Bahnsen, James Anderson, John Frame, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on November 26, 2021| 34 Comments »
I’m especially excited to present our annual Christmas Recommended Books on Presuppositional apologetics and Van Til’s apologetics. That is because this is our blog’s twelfth year in which we post our recommendations of books as Christmas gifts on the subject of Presuppositional apologetics or the Christian worldview!
Below are links to the recommendations from previous years, and if you are new to the whole thing with Presuppositional apologetics and want something introductory I highly recommend the first two books we recommend this year along with the listing from 2014 which we highlighted in bold:
This year list’s of recommended books on Presuppositional apologetics is listed below. Each work will have a link to my fuller review and also links to where one can purchase the book.
Here’s this year’s recommendations:
Posted in apologetics methodology, Book Review, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged apologetics methodology, book review, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on November 25, 2021| 30 Comments »
Christopher Poshin David. Engaging Hinduism : Rethinking Christian Apologetics in India. India: Christian World Imprints, January 1, 2020. 167 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
What does a Christian philosophical critique of Hinduism looks like? This book presents not only a critique of Hinduism but a distinctive of this book is that the author presents to us a Presuppositional Apologetics’ refutation of Neo-Hinduism. The fact that there’s few apologetics’ concerning Hinduism makes this a plus to get this book but as someone who subscribe to Van Til’s apologetics’ methodology it was an added delight to see Van Tillian apologetics applied to Hinduism.
Posted in Christianity, Reformed, Thanksgiving, Theology, tagged Christianity, God, Pray, prayer, Reformed, Thanksgiving, Theology on November 25, 2021| 37 Comments »
There’s a lot of discussions of root causes these days in politics, society, etc.
I think the root cause for many ills are spiritual.
Its the lack of thanksgiving to God.
Posted in Book Review, Calvinism, Charles Spurgeon, Christianity, free, free book, God, Gospel, Jesus, Reformed, sin, Theology, tagged Calvinism, Christianity, free, God, Gospel, Jesus, Peace, Reformed, Sin, Theology on November 24, 2021| 14 Comments »
Now for something fun! I’m reviewing something I haven’t done before in terms of reviewing on this blog: a Christian apologetics’ mug!
I love drinking tea and I love mugs that help spark conversations. And one that’s related to Presuppositional Apologetics is such a specific niche!
The above is a picture of the mug I ordered that is on this online Christian shirt shop called “The Powerful Christian.” You can go to the store directory by clicking here. The shop have merchandise related to Presuppositional Apologetics, the Gospel and also Reformed theology. Its run by a brother who I consider a friend.
Posted in Apologetic Links, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Apologetic Links, christian apologetics, Christianity, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology on November 24, 2021| 18 Comments »
Knox Reformed Presbyterian Church on October 1st-2nd sponsored a two day Apologetics conference which had three speakers: Anthony Rogers, Robert Bowman and Eli Ayala. This church is pastored by Jeff Downs. I’ve been blessed by Jeff Downs for decades now with his gathering of apologetics resources and also his own input.
The audio MP3s of the conference is now available online!
Check out the messages below:
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology on November 23, 2021| 53 Comments »
I thought this was kind of funny. Note the name of the troll in the screenshots are censored to protect the guilty.
So I’m on Mewe, a social media platform and I posted one of my answers to a Bible contradiction in one of the Christian groups:
A nonbeliever got upset. He commented and gave a link to a google search for “100 Bible contradictions” (he misspelled it). I clicked on the Link to Google Search. I noticed the second link that was on the first page of the search result and I thought it was interesting! Before I tell you what it was here’s first my response back to the nonbeliever:
Posted in Apologetic Links, Apologetics, christian apologetics, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, Van Til, tagged Apologetic Links, Apologetics, apologetics links, Christianity, Cornelius Van Til, presuppositional apologetics, Reformed, Theology, Van Til on November 22, 2021| 18 Comments »
These are links concerning Presuppositional apologetics gathered from November 15th-21st, 2021.
1.) Cave to the Cross’ Apologetics Hermeneutics & Apologetics – Ep. 150 – Josh & Jeff From Anarchy Bible Study – Part 1
2.) Bible Contradiction? What was Solomon’s payment to Hiram?
Posted in Christianity, Church, God, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Missions, Reformed, Sunday, Theology, tagged Christianity, Church, God, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Missions, Reformed, Sunday, Theology on November 21, 2021| 23 Comments »
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Pray that the Sermon Would not be Watered Down.
Posted in Christianity, Reformed, Theology, tagged Christianity, Reformed, Theology on November 20, 2021| 48 Comments »
Every problem in our time seems to be further fueled by social media. I realize social media can be a great tool. I realize there’s many different opinions. But I’m most concern with falsehoods that spreads that targets individuals with false accusations. This seems particularly heinous than just different perspectives and disagreements about things. A thought came to mind that I couldn’t let go of tonight:
Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, Presuppositional Apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, christian apologetics, Christianity, presuppositional apologetics, presuppositionalism, Reformed, Theology on November 19, 2021| 34 Comments »
Yesterday’s post “What was Solomon’s payment to Hiram?” got me thinking about how ridiculous the Skeptic Annotated Bible’s claim was that there was a Bible contradiction with the two verses the website cited. Two passages with overlapping truths in which one verse happen to mention additional details than the other verse is a far stretch from it being a Bible contradiction.
This isn’t the first time the listing from the Skeptic Annotated Bible pull off a similar mistake. When I surveyed my Collection of Posts Responding to Bible Contradictions) I noticed the skeptic did the same thing with “What did the sign over Jesus’s head say?”
There’s a whole bunch of alleged Bible contradictions the Skeptic Annotated Bible claimed based upon various account stating how many individuals there were for several events; see as examples the following (though not exhaustive): How many women came to the sepulchre?, How many men were possessed with demons at the country of the Gadarenes?, How many were from the tribe of Simeon?
Perhaps the most ridiculous is What is God’s name? Here the skeptics even think that a shortened form of God’s name means its a contradiction with the longer form of God’s name and other titles of God!
It seems the method of interpretation (what is called hermeneutics) that the skeptic uses to say there’s a contradiction is based upon the observation that there are slightly different wordings and additional details in one of the verses and then extrapolating that there then is a Bible contradictions.
Sometimes the best way to refute bad hermeneutics is to apply the same hermeneutics back to its advocate and demonstrate how it is self-refuting. We are not saying we agree with the skeptics that there’s actually a contradiction but the chief focus in this post is show if the skeptics are consistent then they are forced to being reduced to absurdity.
So using the skeptics hermeneutics does that mean the skeptics’ own wordings are also contradicting?
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Posted in Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Hiram, Jonah, Reformed, Solomon, Theology, tagged Bible, Bible contradiction, bible difficulties, bible interpretation, christian apologetics, Christianity, Hiram, Reformed, Solomon, Theology on November 18, 2021| 36 Comments »
For today’s post we will tackle the question the Skeptic Annotated Bible asked: What was Solomon’s payment to Hiram?
Here are the two answers which the skeptic believes shows a Bible contradiction:
“Solomon then gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as food for his household, and twenty kors of pure oil; this is what Solomon would give Hiram year by year.” (1 Kings 5:11)
“Now behold, I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand kors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”” (2 Chronicles 2:10)
(All Scriptural quotation comes from the New American Standard Bible)
Here’s a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:
The Domain for Truth 