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Q&A: Are The Nephilim Still Around?

HI!I’m a student from eastern europe ;First of all i would like to thank you for your work
now, the questions at hand: 1)Do the nephilim seed still exists today?
2)if so, are they aware of it? are they still an abomination fighting against the Kingdom, or can they get saved by Jesus like the rest of humans? How should a present day Christian react to such facts?
PS: if you already answered this questions ,i’m sorry f...

BOOK REVIEW “Baby Dinosaurs On The Ark?” by Janet Kellogg Ray

“Baby Dinosaurs On The Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science And The Trouble Of Making It All Fit” is a good book on science and faith (although more so on the former than the latter). The book’s chapters on the scientific evidence for an old Earth and for common ancestry is extremely accessible to anyone wanting to know what the evidence for an old Earth and common ancestry is, but who don’t want a lot of technical s...

Q&A: Alex O’Conner’s Claim That The Kalam Is Circular

Hello Evan,

I have been following your blog for awhile and thought you could help me with a certain objection from youruber(although this is a blog post) from Alex O’Connor (AKA CosmicSkeptic), here is the link if you wish to see the post https://cosmicskeptic.com/2020/04/04/the-sly-circularity-of-the-kalam-cosmological-argument/

You see, he made a blog post arguing that the Kalam is circular. I will only post a fe...

BOOK REVIEW: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2: Scientific Evidence For The Beginning Of The Universe”

“The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2: Scientific Evidence For The Beginning Of The Universe” is just as good as the first volume in this series. Both of these books are collections of a variety of essays from both theists and atheists, proponents of The Kalam Cosmological Argument and detractors.  Most of the praise I gave to the first volume in this series would go to the second volume as well. I like the ba...

Q&A: Is The Archetypal View Of Adam’s Formation Heretical?

Message Body:
I read in your article that you believe that Adam being made of dust was a reference to his being mortal, in this case “Why There’s No Conflict Between Evolution and a Historical Adam”, I have a doubt about that, first of all, wouldn’t that violate the Ecumenical councils? In here:

“That whosoever says that Adam, the first man, was created mortal, so that whether he had sinned or not, he would have died...

Why The Divisibility Of Time Is Irrelevant To The Kalam Cosmological Argument

Introduction 

In his essay “Finitism and the Beginning of the Universe”, Stephen Puryear [2014] says that defenders of The Kalam Cosmological Argument (of which William Lane Craig is perhaps the most prominent), have argued that the past must be finite in duration because otherwise the present could have never arrived. This is so because it impossible to “traverse the infinite”. To get to today, the universe would h...

BOOK REVIEW: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past.”

“The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past.” by Paul Copan (Editor), and William Lane Craig (Editor) is the first of a two part work defending the second premise of The Kalam Cosmological Argument. The first volume deals with philosophical arguments regarding the nature of infinity. The second volumes involves the scientific evidence (i.e Big Bang cosmology, the...

Heartbreak At Hilbert’s Hotel?

This article was formed as a result of me typing out my thoughts. Sometimes typing them out helps me organize my thinking. And sometimes I like to publish these if I think it’ll help get others thinking as well. In the first section, I think about an article written by Landon Hedrick in the book “The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past (Bloomsbury Studies in P...

Q&A: A Weaker Interpretation Of Hume

Peace of Christ, Mr.Minton. I hope you are well and ready to exHume the arguments of our good friend David. As you know, one of Mr.Hume;s arguments against miracles is that firm and unalterable experience shows that the laws of nature cannot be broken. However, this is question-begging.

 Miracles do not happen-(because)-> firm and unalterable experience shows that the laws of nature cannot be broken-(because)->Mira...

BOOK REVIEW: “Jesus The Eternal Son” by Michael F. Bird

A thorough refutation of Adoptionist Christology. Bird makes his case from the ground up, arguing from the presuppositions of non-Christian scholars like Ehrman that the New Testament isn’t inspired. Bird DOES believe The New Testament is inspired, but most New Testament scholars who push adoptionism today do not. Ergo, not many references are made to books like the go...