Faith and History A Critique of John Warwick Montgomery’s Apologetics Mark Hutchins Introduction This paper will offer a critical view of John Warwick Montgomery’s approach to Christian apologetics, specifically his attempt to show skeptics that history provides a credible basis for belief in the New Testament Jesus. While Montgomery has not been the only Christian […]

Best-Selling Errancy An Essay on Inconsistencies in the Bible Mark D. Ball, Ph.D. Introduction The Goodness of God The Requirements for Salvation Vowing The Relationship Among Fear, Love, and Punishment Endnotes Bibliography Introduction “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason,” says Thomas Paine in the preface to his treatise on religion, […]

Immortality The question of survival of bodily death concerns whether some aspect of an individual (usually one’s personality or consciousness) continues to exist after the death of one’s normal physical body. Immortality concerns whether that surviving aspect continues to exist forever. While evidence for survival is not necessarily evidence for immortality, evidence against survival is […]

Life After Death Immortality  

Solution to the Jehu Problem (2006) Leonard Jayawardena The Problem It is alleged that that there is a contradiction between 2 Kings 10:30 and Hosea 1:4 because the former commends Jehu for massacring the house of Ahab, whereas the latter pronounces judgment upon the house of Jehu for the “blood of Jezreel.” Taking the latter […]

MessiahGate A Tale of Murder and Deception by Larry A. Taylor Originally printed in HUMSIG newsletter, Number 7, August 1987; Larry A. Taylor, ed. Lecture delivered at Humanist Society of Friends (Los Angeles), August 27, 1987. Larry A. Taylor 5671 S. Newlin Ave. Whittier, CA 90601 Copyright HUMSIG, 1987. Jerusalem; it’s a tough town, but […]

Is the Weak Anthropic Principle Compatible With Divine Design? A Response to Craig (1997) Kyle Kelly   The teleological argument, or argument from design, is considered by many to be one of the strongest arguments for the existence of god(s). Many proponents of this argument point to the improbability of a universe existing with properties […]

Objection #7: Church History Is Littered with Oppression and Violence (2001) (Interview w/ John D. Woodbridge, Ph.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin   This objection is a statement of fact, which cannot be avoided. Woodbridge acknowledges this, and instead tries to provide context to soften some of the tyranny. We will get to that in a moment, […]

Objection #6: A Loving God Would Never Torture People In Hell (2001) (Interview w/ J.P. Moreland, PH.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin   Tackling Templeton’s Challenge Moreland insists hell is not a torture chamber. He says hell is really a separation from God. He stresses that God is loving, but also just (172-4). Problems: Right away, Moreland […]

Objection #5: It’s Offensive To Claim Jesus Is The Only Way To God (2001) (Interview w/ Ravi Zacharias, D.D., LL.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin For someone who is of a non-Christian religion, I suppose the claim of Jesus as a sole source of salvation is offensive. But maybe not. If your goal is not to become […]

Objection #3: Evolution Explains Life, So God Isn’t Needed (2001) (Interview w/ Walter L. Bradley, Ph.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin   This objection is extremely poorly phrased. From a reading of the chapter, it is clear that Strobel’s phrasing, "Evolution Explains Life" means more specifically, evolution explains the origin of life or how evolution was able […]

Objection #2: Since Miracles Contradict Science, They Cannot Be True (2001) (Interview w/ William Lane Craig, Ph.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin   Craig is quite notorious on the Secular Web. If you are interested in the transcript of a debate between Craig and (atheist) Dr. Douglas M. Jesseph on the existence of God, it may be […]

Objection #1: Since Evil & Suffering Exist, A Loving God Cannot (2001) (Interview w/ Peter John Kreeft, PH.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin   A Bear, A Trap, A Hunter, And God The idea here is that God must allow some short term suffering in order to achieve a greater good. The analogy employed by professor Kreeft […]

Introduction (2001) Kyle J. Gerkin   At a recent family gathering the issue of my atheism was raised, though not for the first time, and I professed that I was as staunch an unbeliever as ever. Afterwards, an aunt of mine (who has recently become an evangelical Christian) pulled me aside and handed me a […]

Conclusion (2001) Kyle J. Gerkin   A Suspect Approach The Case For Faith suffers from dishonesty in its approach. The book fancies itself as "a journalistic investigation into the toughest objections to Christianity." But the aim of the author, Lee Strobel, is not an objective, journalistic investigation, but rather an apologetic refutation. Strobel is an […]

Holding Overruled! (2002) Kyle J. Gerkin   This is a response to a review by James Patrick Holding of a piece I wrote entitled “Objections Sustained,” a critique of Lee Strobel’s book, The Case For Faith. For the purposes of this document: Holding’s review is in plain text. Excerpts from my original essay are in […]

An Agnostic Theology (2010) Kile Jones 1. Introduction For years now we have thought that agnosticism and theology were incompatible, for lack of better reasons, because theology was thought to entail revelation. Revelation, in turn, was considered by some theologians as an adequate source of knowledge, and claims to knowledge of God were not considered […]