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How To Become a Self-Taught Apologist

You've just been introduced to Christian Apologetics and have discovered that there are many good arguments and evidence that demonstrate that Christianity is true. However, you're not sure that you're smart enough, have enough free time, or have the financial means to learn this material yourself so that you can be a better witness for Christ.

Can you afford to go to seminary and be trained formally in philosophy and theology? If so, by all means, do that. If you can't either because you can'...

Remember Jesus. He Blew Up The Stars So That You Could Be Born.

Lawrence Krauss' book A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing was released in 2012 and became a best seller. The main thesis of the book is to try to account for why the universe sprang into existence from no pre-existing material 14 billion years ago without the need for a spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, powerful, personal Creator. He does this by appeal to quantum mechanics and quantum particles. There are problems with this proposal, and many apo...

An Atheist Moral Objection

This is a guest post written by Phillip Mast. To see more articles by Mr. Mast, go to his blog Theist Thug Life by clicking here. 


As what tends to happen, another objection has been making its way around the internet by skeptics and unbelievers. The meme (as seen below) is making two primary assertions in its attack on Christians and our Lord (If you couldn’t tell the picture is depicting Noah’s Ark purposely seemingly with just children drowning). The attack on Christianity is based on...

Daleks, Davros, and The Moral Argument For God's Existence

So I've been binging episodes of The FreeThinking Podcast which, among other places, can be streamed and downloaded from http://freethinkingministries.com/free-thinking-podcasts/ and a few of those episodes had to do with The Moral Argument for God's existence. I was binging because I was very far behind. Tim Stratton assessed Eric Wheelinburg's assertion that objective moral values could simply be brute facts (i.e just facts about reality that either have no explanation or at least don'...

Q&A: A Question About The Podcast And A Question About God's Reason For Creating The Universe

Hi Evan
It's me, Markus. I have already dialogued with you on twitter and sent a couple emails (i think). I'm sending this email to ask a couple of questions. The first is about the podcast: will it also be available on iTunes? I'm an iTunes kind of guy and would definitely add it to my arsenal of podcasts.

I have one more, I have done some reading on this, but wanted a different perspective: why did God create the universe? If it is for his glory (which is awesome, I've felt it) but I have ske...

Launching A Podcast

I'm planning on starting a Cerebral Faith podcast in January. I'm planning on going through Pod Bean because from what I've seen on YouTube, their format is easy to use. Plus, they only charge you 14 dollars per month. Many podcasts are just going to be me talking about stuff (Arguments for God's Existence, The Resurrection Of Jesus, The Problem Of Evil, Evolution, etc.) but I also plan on having guests. Among the people who have agreed to be my guests are David Parrish (the awesome dude who...

Q&A: About Christianity and Furries

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Dr. Minton,

Thank you for your ministry. I have recently discovered your blog and have been reading your blog articles on my way to work on the bus and find them very interesting. I had a question that I think you might be able to answer.

A friend of mine recently told me in passing that he identifies as a “furry”. I didn’t know what to say at the time and just kind of said: "that's neat". The conversation didn't go very long because I had to catch the bus....

Q&A: Follow Up On Objections To Libertarian Free Will

Thank you for responding to my question(s). I, however, would like to clarify some of my points. I think you have misunderstood many of my arguments. For my first one, I will just rephrase it because I did such a poor job of explaining my main argument that there cannot be free will that it would be simpler to just restate it completely. Basically, an Agents decision to do X must be either caused or caused via the law of the excluded middle. If my decision to do X over Y was caused by a previ...

The Soteriological Case For Molinism

Note: This Paper is available to download as a PDF. Click Here. 



Abstract: In this paper, I plan on making the case for Molinism from a different perspective in my previous paper "The Case For Mere Molinism" which featured on 3 central pillars which came from The Bible and which only Molinism could best make sense of. In this paper, I will argue that there 6 soteriological facts taught in The Bible and that only Molinism can adequately explain all 6 of the biblical facts. In this paper, I...

Q&A: Objections Against Libertarian Free Will

Greetings, I am a non-Christian specifically a Deist who wanted to comment on your article 5 Arguments For the Existence Of Free Will, however I am currently unable to comment in the comment section so I am doing it by Email. I am a Determinist who is very much sympathetic to Calvinism and I admire it to a great degree as the most rational of all revealed religions. I agree with Calvinists who believe that God predetermines everything, that God is the Author of Sin, (which does not impune his...