This will not be a long post. I am simply commenting on how the blue check marks (“important” Twitter users) think.[1] Notice the screenshot below. A few comments: Fridman’s initial comment is an exposition of the truth of Ecclesiastes 3:11; namely, God has set...
Occasionally you may hear an objection to believing in Christianity because it is simply myth. Those who make this objection are largely behind the times (the scholarly consensus moved past the idea that Jesus could be explained by Greek myth almost 100 years...
One of the benefits of being in Detroit is our proximity to Canada (you can get to Canada from our seminary in about 20 minutes). That allows Canadians to attend our seminary more easily (and allows us easier access to Canadian delicacies like poutine!) Today is...
I teach a seminary class entitled Biblical Creationism. One of the textbooks is Refuting Evolution (2nd ed., 2008) by Jonathan Sarfati of Creation Ministries International. This book is the largest-selling creation book of all time. Because of the importance of this...
A few weeks ago I was alerted to a criticism raised about an old blog post of mine—a post in which I argued for a universally shared a priori awareness of linguistic laws that make possible the successful reading of Scripture by all image-bearers. We...
Ben Edwards talks to Mark Snoeberger about the use of evidences in presuppositional apologetics.
The Function of Apologetics
Ben Edwards talks with Mark Snoeberger about different ways to approach Apologetics.
A number of years ago I stumbled on the following chart in Boa and Bowman’s book, Faith Has its Reasons.[1] The representation below has been modified in a few minor ways from its original depiction. And while the chart is not perfect (some belief systems hold to more...
Can One Be Both a Dispensational and Covenantal Apologist - RileyDownload
2014 William R. Rice Lecture Series Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014Speaker: Pastor Peter HubbardTheme: “The Gospel, the Homosexual and the Church” – PDF Lectures:Lecture 1: The Bible: A Framework for Understanding Same-Sex Attraction...
I'm a cynic and a pessimist by nature. Usually, if "everybody is doing it," I don't. I can't tell you whether it's my sin nature, my metacultural bent, or a regenerate distrust of fads and mania in general. And maybe in this case it's my affinity for the Pittsburgh...
Is our world a simulation? That position has been expressed in the past.[1] Some of the more well-known theories come from Descartes and the movie, “The Matrix.” According to Descartes, it is possible that our world experience is the hallucination caused by a...
God and Counterfactuals - PostiffDownload
The doctrine of biblical creation is often viewed as incidental, if not detrimental, to the task of defending the Christian faith.((Dr. Dunham is the Associate Professor of Old Testament at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.)) ((By biblical creation I mean the...
When I taught Old Testament Survey at a Christian University, one of my favorite assignments was having the students read Bel and the Dragon. This is a portion of apocryphal literature[1] which was written to be added to the text of Daniel (as chapter 14). I had the...
2012 William R. Rice Lecture Series Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012Speaker: Dr. Bryant G. WoodTheme: “Archaeology and the Conquest: New Evidence on an Old Problem” Lectures:Lecture 1: Background and Chronology of the Exodus and Conquest...