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Author Archives: humblesmith
How Can I Know I’m Not God?
Several religions and belief systems hold humans to be God. We can know this is not the case for the following reasons: God is the first cause of all that is, what Aquinas described as the first mover, the unmoved … Continue reading
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Can Atheists Answer Why?
The following video clip of atheist Richard Dawkins provides a rather clear perspective on the atheists’ view of meaning: Here Dawkins tells us that he can easily answer why birds have wings “from an evolutionary standpoint.” Presumably this would involve … Continue reading
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A Biblical Lesson: Rightfully Dividing the Word
Modern skeptics and Bible critics sometimes pick out individual passages in the Bible and hold them up as if they are universal commands to be maintained for all time. Such interpretation is not handling the text for what it claims … Continue reading
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A Sermon in Memory Of . . .
Reblogged from treasureinaclayjar: I preach almost every week. I always work hard, but alas, there are some weeks when (for whatever reason) sermons are more effective than others. And then there are those times when something you write, and then … Continue reading
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A Suggestion of Proper Method to Arrive at Conclusions
It is possible for me to point out that atheism agrees with Richard Dawkins that the world is, at bottom, made up of randomness and blind pitiless indifference. If I do so, then try to hold that atheism believes this … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism
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Isaiah: The Proven Prophet
One atheist blog posted this as one piece of evidence against Biblical prophecy: In 2 Kings 19, Sennacherib, king of Assyria has come against Judah. King Hezekiah is afraid, but Isaiah tells him that the threat will go away and … Continue reading
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Is Religion Stagnant? CanTechnology Solve Our Problems?
I recently saw a statement from some anonymous internet sage who pointed out that there are many technological advances done by people who want change and were energetic enough to work at developing the technolgy, but religion had not changed … Continue reading
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Michael Licona, Norman Geisler, and Inerrancy
I’d like to give a brief history of the inerrancy debates, at least from one perspective. There are many out there who know the details better than I, so if anyone has better information, I will gladly step aside and … Continue reading
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A Few Good Posts
A good post over on the Just Thomism blog about the relation of science and myth. You can find it here. A post on the conflict between new atheists and American liberals who want to squash “islamophobia” and never criticize … Continue reading
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Empirical Knowledge
We cannot use empirical knowledge to conclude that non-empirical knowledge does not exist.
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Is Evolution A Sufficient Explanation for Morality?
A recent comment brought my attention to a blog post about morality, which you can find here. The author is atheist and makes the argument that morals have evolved. I am responding here because it seems this view is accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Morality
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Relativism is Self-Refuting
People who hold to relativism in the area of goodness, evil, or morality hold that the standard of goodness can change from group to group. Relativists hold that each society can determine its own morality. Atheist Carl Sagan, for example, … Continue reading
Posted in Morality, Philosophy
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Atheists, Morality, and Blind Indifference
As I write this, a terrorist has exploded a bomb at the Boston marathon, killing some and wounding many dozens more. I recall after the 9/11 terrorist acts in Washington, afterward some people were driven toward God and some were … Continue reading
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Did Israel Practice Child Sacrifice?
A blog has created a post that makes some interesting conclusions about child sacrifice in ancient Israel, as reported in the Old Testament. You can find the entire post here. The author concludes that child sacrifice was a practice done … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, Bible, Uncategorized
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Still Another Atheist Becomes Christian
One more atheist becomes Christian, based on the overwhelming evidence. Here is an excerpt from the middle of her story: So I plunged headlong into apologetics, devouring debates and books from many perspectives. I read the Qur’an and Richard Dawkins’s … Continue reading
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Did Abraham Lincoln Really Exist?
A new Facebook page for the truly rational skeptic. It’s description is “A page for freethinking, rational skepticism toward the myth of Abraham Lincoln’s existence and the stories attributed to him. Belief in Abraham Lincoln is the most malevolent of all … Continue reading
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Can Jewish Writers Accurately Quote Their Own Texts?
One category of Bible question that often arises is whether the Bible is accurate in what it claims. If the Bible can be trusted in what we can corroborate, we have a strong reason to trust it in the things … Continue reading
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Meaning in the Universe?
Those who hold that all that exists is matter and energy ultimately must maintain that everything is explained through physics and chemistry and that there is no ultimate cause or purpose in the universe. Things are the way they are … Continue reading
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Resurrection: Critical Scholars & Peter
Luke, in his account of the resurrection of Jesus, says the following: The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. … Continue reading
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Holiness and the Justice of God
The Bible tells us that all men are impure and sinful (Romans 3:23). Much earlier in the Bible, not long after Adam and Eve sinned, we find that one of their sons killed the other, when Cain killed Abel (Genesis … Continue reading
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News Flash: Supreme Court Decides Marriage is One Man, One Woman
United States Supreme Court (1885), in the case of Murphy v. Ramsey & Others, 144 U.S. 15, 45 (1885), gave its opinion: Every person who has a husband or wife living … and marries another … is guilty of polygamy, … Continue reading
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Was God Racist When He Commanded The Destruction of Canaan?
The accusation has been made that God was racist when He commanded Israel to destroy the people of Canaan in The Old Testament The problem is that it is rather hard to be racist when both Israel and Canaan were … Continue reading
Posted in Atheism, Morality
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Did God Speak to People of Canaan?
Regarding the issue of God commanding Israel to destroy everyone in Canaan, the position of the critic and atheist seems to be that God gave an excessive punishment on an entire people group with no warning. Such a statement shows … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Morality, Uncategorized
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God and Canaan: Another Perspective
Author Paul Copan has published a some articles on God and the Canaanites, which gives some interesting perspectives. You can find them at these links: How Could God Command Killing the Canaanites? Divinely Mandated Genocide or Corporate Capital Punishment? The New … Continue reading
What Does the Bible Say About the People of Canaan?
The land of Canaan is much at the forefront these days, mostly due to the poplular atheist criticism of God’s command to Joshua to kill the people of Canaan. The atheists do not seem to read their Bibles, but only … Continue reading
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What is Good?
How do we define what is good? Is it good because I desire it? Or because I say it is good? Or because we vote and most of us say it is good? Thomas Aquinas gives us an answer in … Continue reading
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Atheist and Christian Dialog About Morals
A dialog between Christian and Atheist about morals. A: I do not believe God exists, and everything is explained via chemistry and physics. . . there is no need for the supernatural. C: I’ve heard you say this. A: You say that God … Continue reading
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What if Good Were to Exist Independently of God?
One view of the grounds for morality says that good can exist independently of God, and tries to put the burden of proof on the theist to prove that God is necessary for morality. The atheist might say that if … Continue reading
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