Evan Minton's Blog, page 13
May 21, 2021
BOOK REVIEW: “Philosophical and Theological Essays On The Trinity” Edited by Thomas McCall and Michael C. Ray
This is an absolutely fantastic work on the philosophical issue of the threeness-oneness problem regarding the doctrine of The Trinity. What I liked the most about this was the back and forth essay debate between the Social Trinitarian model of William Lane Craig’s and J.P Moreland’s, which I myself embrace. There is an essay in chapter 5 which is taken from Craig’s and Moreland’s “Philosophical Foundation For A ...
May 11, 2021
Q&A: Various Methods
Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, may God bless you and the ministry abundantly. As I was watching a Kyle Alander video on his approach to christian apologetics and how it was different from what he called “Cragian” apologetics. This prompted me to think why there was so little variation in apologetics methodology. Of course there is the classical, evidential, presuppositional and reformed epistemology. But when we ex...
April 27, 2021
Q&A: Answers To A Reddit Atheist On The Resurrection Of Jesus.
Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, I hope that you are in good health. As I traverse the internet, I notice that copy paste comments are prevalent. Sadly, this is also found in christian apologetics channels and websites. This is especially prevalent when the article/video is concerning the Resurrection. Two individuals in particular are notorious for this, “Countering Christainity” and “Resurrection Expert”. What I am...
April 23, 2021
Q&A: Having Rock Solid Faith?
Hi Evan,
first of all I want to let you know that I really appreciate people like you who stand-up for our faith and defend it with all your heart and mind.
I am a fellow-Christian who is struggling with doubts if it is (at all possible) to really build a rock solid faith that is largely based on a rational foundation. Don´t get me wrong, I find many arguments for God (also presented on your website) very conv...
April 22, 2021
BOOK REVIEW: “Wholly Smoke! The Myth Of Endless Torment” by Brother Bird
“Wholly Smoke!: The Myth Of Endless Torment” by Brother Bird is an comprehensive, easily accessible defense of conditional immortality a.k.a annihilationism. Bird shows in chapter after chapter how the teaching that the damned are “destroyed” (Psalm 37:38, Psalm 94:23, 2 Peter 3:7, Jude 1:10), “perish” (John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:9), “burned up” (Matthew 3:6 12), are “destroyed in both body and soul” (Matthew 10:28), r...
April 11, 2021
BOOK REVIEW: “Inspiration and Incarnation” by Peter Enns
Peter Enns’ “Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and The Problem Of The Old Testament” is a much needed book. I have noticed that a lot of people tend to think The Bible is in error simply because they have faulty expectations of how, to use Enns’ words “The Bible should behave”. Fundamentalists and Evangelicals, both trained theologians and people in the laity, have formulated theories of inspiration (i.e the proce...
Q&A: The Prior Probability Of Theism
( Hello Mr. Minton, this is an email that I sent you at Mon,Mar 15, 3:54 PM. It has been roughly three weeks since the sending of that email. I am resending this email in the event that you did not see my first email. If you have seen my first email and were just busy or occupied with your ministry please take your time and respond when you are able. Much thanks for your ministry and service. )
April 3, 2021
Revision To The Three Circles Model?
Over the course of 40 comments, I’ve had a stimulating conversation with a Sam Burke in the comment section of the blog post “‘Worship Me Or Burn’ – The Oversimplification Of An Atheist Meme”. The conversation stayed on the topic for a while but eventually we somehow got onto the notion of free will, sin, temptation, and whether free will will exist in Heaven. I appealed at one point in our discussion to Dr. Tim Stratton’...
March 10, 2021
Q&A: Why so sAd Hominem?
I’m unsure if my first emil was sent so I am typing a simplified version of it. I am asking about Ad hominems.I mean this in the more relaxed sense of the word: mockery, insults and threats. This activity is especially found in the internet. This can be found on both sides of the aisle. Such as the “believe or burn” in christians. Or the famous ‘sky daddy” of the atheists (among many insults, which I assume you have endur...
March 5, 2021
Q&A: Things We Can’t Control?
Dear Mr. Minton,
I hope you received this email well. There’s this question that has been on my mind for some time. As the title suggests, it’s about things we (probably) can’t control. I don’t know how to articulate my questions, that’s why I’ve been putting off sending this email. I hope it won’t get too confusing. I have 2 questions basically. Several experiences has led me to question these.
1. Is there really free wil...
