There is nothing like losing all ability to distinguish whether it is the Holy Spirit or a demon speaking to you. Only then did I realize that my spiritual experiences could not be trusted – all of them. And then when I discovered I had complete control over the voices, their presence, what they would say, and when they would say it did I realize that it was all in my head. I personally think it would take something like this to knock some sense into a person like William Lane Craig.
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Why Some Men will Never Leave the Faith
Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural, William Lane Craig on July 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Critique: God Created the Universe
Posted in Apologetics, Uncategorized on July 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Premise 1: Creation requires a moment when a thing was not created and a moment when a thing was created. Premise 2: Two subsequent moments require the existence of time. Conclusion 1: The ability to create requires the existence of time. Premise 3: God is outside of time. Premise 4 (Conclusion 1): The ability to [...]
Critique: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Posted in Apologetics, Uncategorized on July 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Premise 1: Every thing that begins to exist has a cause. Premise 2: The universe began to exist. Conclusion: The universe has a cause. Argument For the Impossibility of The Beginning of the Universe: Premise 3: The universe is a thing. Premise 4: Things cannot begin to do anything unless time exists. Premise 5: Time [...]
Holy Spirit?
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, Supernatural on July 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The conversation in my last post is honing in on what I hold to be a keystone issue in the Christian argument: whether the Holy Spirit exists or not.
From my perspective, all the intelligent arguments within the Christian faith are bunk if the Holy Spirit’s presence cannot be demonstrated.
Leaving Faith: It’s not About Arguments
Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Morality, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural on July 7, 2009 | 235 Comments »
It is not about the arguments.
In order for a person to leave a faith, the perceived value of leaving the faith must exceed the perceived value of staying.
Evangelism, then, is the art of marketing an idea’s value. Good evangelists dance the dance of making God’s wrath hotter and God’s salvation sweeter. The greater the perception of God’s wrath, the greater one’s perception of God’s salvation. Conversion is ones entrance into a social structure whose entire end-goal is to fine tune and balance this perception of God’s wrath and God’s salvation so that the greatest number of people convert and stay. Those faiths that achieve this balance between threats and rewards most effectively will survive and reproduce.
Theists prove god does not exist
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Supernatural on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Any theism which depends upon human agency to produce a divine effect does not have a divine cause, but a purely human one.
Whenever God does not show up, Christians blame human behavior.
Hmmmmm… well, I guess we are just not doing this god thing right. If you do it just right, *poof*, he appears. Like a divine seance…
Skeptic / Christian cross-talk
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, Skeptical Thought on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
All last year I had an internal battle going on. On the one hand, if someone could show me that the Christianity I grew up with was true, I wanted to listen and was willing to admit I was wrong about becoming an atheist. On the other, I was only truly hoping they would have [...]
The truth?
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Meaning on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Let us consider our options. If a higher being exists which knows the truth about our existence, given the state of our world it either has done a poor job communicating this message or does not want to communicate this message or we are not listening. Great men have listened and sought intently and come [...]
And you call it education?
Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith on March 14, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This post is somewhat of a confession. I got really, really upset with my brother and dad the other day.
I found out my brother is planning on attending Masters College (John MacArthur’s school) in Santa Clarita, California. Knowing what I do about the school, and the types of people it produces, had me so worried I almost got angry. I have apologized to my brother and dad for getting upset and have made an attempt to “support” his decision to go to the school, but I am still baffled.
The Void Within
Posted in Apologetics, Atheism, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Meaning on March 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »
When I was studying apologetics, one of the arguments that stuck out the most to me was one popularized by C.S.Lewis. It goes like this: If I have a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, I must have been created for another world. As a Christian, this fit perfectly with the notion that [...]
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