In my post Is Genesis Metaphorical or Historical?, commenter Floss asked the question that forms the title of this post. Here’s my short answer. 1. It is important to interpret literature according to its literary type If I read, for instance, a parable or metaphor as...
I love the whole debate scene, and I have listened to a lot of Christian and non-Christian news podcasts, and narrowed down my favorites to Guide: Favorite Podcasts for Christians. Now, I want to venture out into the land of…
One of the more informative podcasts I listen to regularly is Issues Etc. Recently, they interviewed Joel Heck, who’s written a very inexpensive book entitled In the Beginning, God: Creation from God’s Perspective, which examines the questions surrounding the historicity and interpretation of Genesis. I...
In my last post, I discussed the various defenses of the eternality of hell – this time, I would like to compare the role of punishment in the temporal world (our current temporal time frame) and in eternity (eternal time frame). 1. What does EARTHLY...
This post is part of a series. In Part 1, I generalized that, since the impact of being wrong about God is high, it doesn’t matter how unlikely it is, it is still a high risk. But that oversimplification is not entirely true. If it was, that...
This post is part of a series. Pascal’s famous ‘wager’ is often misunderstood, and maligned by anti-theists as an argument from lack of evidence, or worse, merely a threat of hellfire. But on closer inspection, this theological conundrum elucidated by the great scientist, mathematician, and...
Jay Richards – did physics kill God? (Stephen Hawking) INTRO 1. For the materialist, the fundamental and foundational source is the universe… Carl Sagan said ‘the universe is all there is, was, or will be.’ >> But the cosmos is NOT eternal A. Three strikes...
Wm Craig – 7 evidences for God 1. Why does anything exist? (Cosmological argument) A. Contingency argument 1. Everything that exists has an explanation for its existence, either necessary or contingent a. The universe used to be thought as eternally and self existent. Now we...
