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BOOK REVIEW (Sort Of): NIV Live A Bible Experience.

The title of this blog post says “Book Review (Sort Of)…” because what I’m going to be reviewing isn’t technically a book. It’s an App. NIV Live is an App you can download from the Google Play Store, and when you open it, you have the entire text of the 66 books of The Bible in the New International Version translation. The app is mostly free. You can get all of the text of scripture for no cost, but if you’d like the aud...

Q&A: A Friend Who Keeps Responding To The Solutions To The Problem Of Evil

Hi Mr. Minton.

I’ve been following your blog since earlier this year. I discovered it during my lurking hours in the internet while this whole pandemic was going on. I really like reading your posts and I learned a lot from it like the cosmic temple view, new view of hell, etc.  For my first email for you, I want to ask something that I’ve been worried about for months now. I have this college friend who is skeptical. She k...

Q&A: The Biology Of Hormones And Its Implications For The Free Will Defense

Hello, Mr. Minton
I hope you’re having a good day.
I have with me a question brought about by reading countless articles on this certain topic. I first saw a post in Facebook about a woman’s cat who gave birth to premature kittens which eventually died. The mama cat got depressed, became thin, stopped grooming herself, etc. The cat was dying due to depression. So the owner eventually decided to have her cat spayed. “No more...

Q&A: How To Convince People Of Their Badness

Hi! I don’t speak English, so I hope my question is well translated: What is one way to prove that we humans are bad because of our corrupt nature? I have justified human corruption by appealing to the fact that we have all lied, coveted, had bad desires But I have been answered “but we are also empathic, we are born to do good things, to be in solidarity, to help. So taking this into account and appealing to your logic I...

GUEST POST: An Evidentialist Review Of Jason Lisle’s “Ultimate Proof Of Creation”

This is a guest post written By David Pallmann.

Introduction

A number of years ago, Christian astrophysicist and young earth creationist Dr. Jason Lisle wrote a book entitled The Ultimate Proof of Creation (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2009). The book is a creative introduction to presuppositional apologetics (hereafter PA) but from the perspective of the debate over origins. The aim of the book is to provide a defense of the the Christian faith that is irrefutable.

While this...

Q&A: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Eternalism

Good day, Mr Minton,

I’ve happened to stumble upon your blog post on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, and I seem to have a few objections which I don’t think you have ever addressed, whether in that blog post or in the blog category.

This is the formulation of the argument which I understand you to be using:

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

2. The universe began to exist.

3. The universe has a cause. (conclu...

Does Sola Scriptura Lead To Biblical Relativism?

October 31st has come and gone. And while many people see the date as Halloween, we protestant Christians remember it as the anniversary of The Protestant Reformation. As I was thinking about the reformation, I was reminded of a conversation I had with one of my Catholic friends. A while back, when talking about the release of my newest book “Yahweh’s Inferno: How Scripture’s Teaching On Hell Doesn’t Impugn The Goodness O...

Was The Snappening Star Lord’s Fault?

In Avengers: Infinity War, The Avengers were going to try to defeat Thanos by pulling the Infinity Gauntlet off of him since that made him so powerful that even multiple heroes couldn’t stop him. Thanos had revealed, however, that he had killed Gomorrah (Peter Quill’s alien girlfriend) in order to retrieve the Soul Stone. This is because the only way to get the Soul Stone was to sacrifice someone you loved, and Thanos did...

BOOK REVIEW: “Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism” by Tim Stratton

MAGNUM OPUS! Those are two words that come to mind when I think of the dissertation written by Dr. Tim Stratton. In this book, which is his dissertation, Tim Stratton defends the theologic systematic called Molinism. He begins by noting that divine determinism and libertarian free will have much scriptural support, thus a charitable person can understand why some might embrace either Exhaustive Divine Determinism or belie...

BOOK REVIEW: “The Resurrection Of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach” by Michael Licona

This is probably the best book on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus ever written. It is extremely well researched and documented, and the topics Dr. Licona covers ranges widely. He begins with historical method and the dangers of letting worldview presuppositions misguide the historian in their examination of the evidence. He notes that no one is completely bias free when they come to this subject; since a lot ...