Review: God’s Crime Scene for Kids: Investigate Creation with a Real Detective

Note: I am currently available to have some internet in my trip overseas to teach theology.  The internet is not as strong here especially at night so I’m glad I got to post this.J. Warner Wallace.  God’s Crime Scene for Kids: Investigate Creation with a Real Detective.  Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, September 1^st, 2017. 144 pp.

4 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

This was a kid’s version of the author’s same book titled “God’s Crime Scene” in which the author J. Warner Wallace presents a case for the existence of God using Classical and Evidentialist’s arguments.  When I was reading it I couldn’t put the book down because it was that captivating.  The following is my thoughts on the book.

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Early August 2017 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between August 1st-7th, 2017.

1.) Christianity: The Only Worldview of Truth

2.) No Absolute Truth

3.) Logic and Lily Pads

4.) Do Men Need Evidence For God Or Persuasion Of Guilt?

5.) SAMPLE QUESTIONS FOR APOLOGETICS EXAM

 

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One Witty Ditty For Your Memory of Theology: Dealing with Objections to Christ’s Divinity

If you are a Christian for a significant amount of time you would have no doubt ran into people who called themselves Christians but denied the essential doctrine of Christ being God and also the doctrine of the Trinity.  No doubt they will throw out verses and argument to say that Jesus was not God.  Is there a witty ditty one can have that helps us remember the principle of how to respond to such doctrinal attack on the person and work of Christ?

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Late July 2017 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

This latest round up has a lot more stuff than usual!

Here are the links related to Presuppositional Apologetics gathered between July 22nd-31st, 2017.

1.) Misrepresentation: Do Presuppositionalists conflate the moral depravity in the Bible with human reasoning?

2.) Theism: Plain or Necessary?

3.) A BRIEF SUMMARY OF PRESUPPOSITIONAL APOLOGETICS

4.) Presuppositional Apologetics Lectures: Patrick Hines on Youtube

5.) How Do You Know It Is True?

6.) The Classical Apologists Facepalming Misuse of Scripture

7.) Refuting the Critics #1

8.) Dawkins Blackballed for his Views on Islam

9.) Notes on Evil and Evidence

10.) Reformed Forum’s Upcoming 2017 Conference: The Reformation of Apologetics

11.) Circularity and Presuppositionalism, via Kuhn

12.) Feedback: Is Atheism a Religion?

13.) God Made Man and Woman. PERIOD. Then Back to William Lane Craig and Presuppositionalism

 

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Quick Thoughts on “The Old Testament is just a collection and rehash from older sources”

Someone asked me the following:

How can one respond to the statement:

“The OT is just a collection and rehash from older sources” (for example: Sumerian)

Usually non-believers use this approach to undermine the Genesis narratives, stating that there are civilizations much older than the Hebrew people, thus, the books from the Hebrews have been inspired by previous texts from those folks.

Here’s my reply:

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Mid-July 2017 Presuppositional Apologetics’ Links

Here are links gathered from July 8th-14th, 2017 on Presuppositional Apologetics/Presuppositionalism or subject matters that would be of interests to those who are into Presuppositional apologetics.

1.) Atheistic Evolution’s Foundation is Irrational and Based on Blind Faith

2.) Does Calvinism make God the “author of sin”?

3.) Apologetics Sermon Illustration #41: Bible Contradiction and the Word “Left”

4.) The Dillahunty Dodge

5.) How to Be a Buddhist in Today’s World or Not

6.) Are You Epistemologically Self-Conscious?

7.)Answering a moral relativist

 

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The Mess: Eugene Peterson’s retraction for supporting Same-Sex Marriage?

Eugene Peterson lectures at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Wash., in May 2009. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

Yesterday I posted “The Mess: Eugene Peterson’s affirmation of Homosexuality” in which I examined Eugene Peterson’s comments that affirmed same-sex marriage and gay relationship in light of the Scriptures.  It turns out that Eugene Peterson faced such backlashed that he issued a retraction as Christianity Today (more like Christianity Astray) reported.  But the retraction to me brought more concerns than comfort.

Here’s my take on his recent comments.

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