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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Gospel or Religion?
If the problem is Sin — and Sin is failure to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength — what is the solution? The last … Continue reading
Cosmic Consequences?
In the post last Thursday I focused on Ch. 10, The Problem of Sin, in Tim Keller’s book The Reason for God. I found this chapter to contain many important insights and felt that it was worth serious consideration, free … Continue reading
Posted in cosmology, Death, Original Sin, The Fall
Tagged Tim Keller
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Keller and THE PROBLEM
We do not live in the Garden of Eden (Utopia, Shangri La, Paradise — you name it). Most of us would agree that it is self evident that something is fundamentally wrong with the world we currently occupy. The 20th … Continue reading
Doubt, The Reformation, and Sola Fide
Lord I believe; help thou my unbelief. I took part in a scholarly discussion recently – not in a Christian context. In the course of this discussion it was suggested that the Reformation insistence on confessed faith, and more importantly … Continue reading
Posted in Doubt, Problems for Faith
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The Heavens Declare
One of the commonly invoked arguments in any discussion of natural theology and the evidence for God is the Anthropic Principle – or put simply, the fact that the universe in which we live is incredibly finely tuned to support … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Theology
Tagged Francis Collins, John C. Polkinghorne, Owen Gingerich
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Echoes of a Voice
Part two of The Reason for God begins with a discussion of the reasons for faith. Chapters 8 and 9 deal with clues for the existence of God. These clues are found within nature and within ourselves. There is no … Continue reading
The Music of Life
Several years ago Denis Noble published an interesting little book The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes. The reductionist approach to biology described on a popular level by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene considers the purpose of … Continue reading
The Historic Christian Faith
Following Tim Keller in The Reason for God we have now presented and discussed seven of the biggest objections raised against the Christian faith. None of these objections are fatal to the historic Christian faith when examined objectively. But this … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Evangelicalism
Tagged Tim Keller
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