Regarding Chick-Fil-A, the elephant in the room is, “Are they discriminating against Rockford, IL?” We can’t even buy a sandwich here. . . Barnabas Piper thinks Chick-Fil-A Wednesday is a bold mistake. He concludes an article for World Magazine with…
C.S. Lewis: “Christianity is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up”
C.S. Lewis said that one of the reasons that he believes Christianity is that it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. In Mere Christianity, he wrote: Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not…
D.A. Carson: How Can God Be Loving Yet Send People to Hell?
The Great Debate: Does God Exist?
Justin Holcomb of the Resurgence summarizes the great apologetics debate between Greg Bahnsen and Gordon Stein. It became known as the Great Debate. In 1985 the University of California at Irvine hosted a public debate between philosopher Greg Bahnsen and…
Christopher Hitchens Has Died, Doug Wilson Reflects
The well known atheist Christopher Hitchens died Thursday night. Doug Wilson, who debated Hitchens numerous times reflects in a Christianity Today article: Editor’s Note: Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. A statement from Vanity Fair said that…
Christians need not be intellectually troubled that they can’t exhaustively explain why God allows evil
A theodicy is “a defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil.” A theodicy speaks to the question, “If God is good and all-powerful, how do we explain the existence of evil.” So how do…
D.A. Carson on the intolerance of tolerance
G.K. Chesterton famously said that, “Tolerance is the virtue of people who don’t believe anything.” Here Carson explains how the connotation of “tolerance” has changed over time. HT: Z
What is a properly basic belief?
Kick off the new year with some deep thinking. HT: Justin Taylor
When was the last time you seriously considered where you will spend eternity?
Pastor Jeremy Carr of Oxford Bible Fellowship responds to those who find it difficult to believe that Hell is eternal. Jeremy Carr: It seems that the biggest hang-up people have with the concept of hell is that it is eternal.…
Frame on God’s sovereignty in election and our responsibility as moral agents
Both these things are true: God is sovereign and is in control of all things. Human choices in no way diminish the sovereignty of God. Human beings are responsible moral agents. God is in no way morally responsible for sin.…