Faith
A BELIEF is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person’s life. Are you &. scientist? A liberal? A racist? These are merely species of belief in action. Your beliefs define your vision of the world; they dictate your behavior; they determine your emotional responses to other human beings. If you [...]
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[HT Brian Auten] William Lane Craig presents this talk calling on Christians to be intellectually engaged. Entitled In Intellectual Neutral, this talk can be found in theaudio/video section of ReasonableFaith.org. Craig offers three reasons to become fully engaged intellectually in order to impact the culture for Christ.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. -Ephesians 2:8-9 Faith is not the gift, Jesus is. Faith is what everyone operates on at some level as we are not omniscient beings [...]
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my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. -Hosea 4:6a The Bible does not require of even condone the “blind faith” of Immanuel Kant.
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RC Sproul writes: Yes, the faith we exercise is our faith. God does not do the believing for us. When I respond to Christ, it is my response, my faith, my trust that is being exercised. The issue, however, goes deeper. The question still remains: “Do I cooperate with God’s grace before I am born [...]
A common thorn in the side of most Calvinists is Ephesians 2:8 which reads For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, To keep with the reformed doctrine of irresistible grace (ie. men being robots) they prefer to make the case that [...]
Unmitigated doubt is a cancer. What I mean by that is not that doubt itself is a bad thing. IT isn’t. Men are borne with doubts and fears which naturally lead to a sort of curiosity about the world around them and about the larger philosophical questions such as meaning, purpose, existence, origin, etc. Socrates [...]
I recently attended a lecture by Dr Richard Howe on the Prosperity Gospel and Word of Faith Movement and decided to share the slides from the event with a few of my friends. The following are a few questions that were raised during the course of our discussion. “Are there spiritual laws and forces?” Sure, [...]
A common refrain from non-religious people is that belief in God is akin to a mental disorder. Well here are a few resources which should help put things into perspective and show how a theist is comfortably warranted in their religious beliefs: Bruce A. Little What is faith? Does belief require Warrant? Bruce A. Little [...]
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