Principles of Godly Contentment
Throughout the Scriptures, we see numerous examples of men who learned to be content and rest in God’s providence through the most challenging of trials and tribulations.
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The Art of Biblical Integrity for the Christian Intellectual
So many people in our modern evangelical culture assent to a set of propositional truths about God but in their hearts are practical atheists. I believe that Scripture gives us examples of people of this category — people who were doctrinally sound but whose lifestyles did not bear out their professed beliefs.
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Biologist John Mattick on Junk DNA, ENCODE, and Intelligent Design
Mattick himself is no proponent of intelligent design. But his willingness to state upfront that a common argument against ID has been “threatened in the face of growing functional indices of noncoding regions of the genome” deserves commendation.
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On the Dangers of Fideism
Without having intellectual grounding for belief, one is left with nothing to differentiate truth from falsehood.
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The Trinity Defended
In this article, I want to provide a definition of this important doctrine, explaining what exactly the Trinity is, as well as what is isn’t. I shall then examine the Scriptures to see whether they provide adequate substantiation of this concept.
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Christ in the Story of Ruth
In this article, I want to draw attention to yet another old testament parallel to Christ. This one occurs in the book of Ruth.
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Jesus Foreshadowed by Joshua the High Priest
In this article, I want to consider yet another remarkable Old Testament foreshadowing of Christ, this time from the book of Zechariah.
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If God, Why Suffering? Thoughts on Theodicy
Christianity is the only theistic worldview in which God has suffered with His Creation. Christianity is also the only religion in which one cannot say that God has done nothing about the problem of evil. Rather, God has dealt with it in a just fashion. He has extended the offer of salvation to humanity, made possible through Christ’s work on the cross.
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Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt: The Passover as a Foreshadow of Christ
In this article, I want to consider another well-known example of this category of evidence: The Passover, an event which has been celebrated by Jews for thousands of years.
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What’s Wrong with the Zeitgeist Movie?
The Zeitgeist movie has been circulating on the internet since 2007. In the video its director, Peter Joseph, seeks to persuade viewers that the authors of the New Testament essentially plagiarized the concept of the virgin birth, December 25 as Christ’s birth date, the twelve disciples, the miracles, the crucifixion, and the resurrection from astrological sources and pagan mythology.
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