by Brian | Sep 24, 2012 | Culture
Something to remember as you go to work or school today with non-believers: We need to take seriously the claim of Romans 1:18–25 that everyone everywhere, in every culture, knows God but suppresses the knowledge. A pagan culture cooperates in the suppression by...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2012 | Culture
Inciteful comments from Vern Poythress, on the inevitable drift into superstition and pantheistic speaking and thinking, even by the most advanced technological societies–especially when we try to shut out the idea that there’s anything in the universe...
by Brian | Aug 1, 2012 | Culture
This really continues monday’s post…Here’s one more response to Stephen Prothero’s book God is Not One. The story he’s referring to is the Blind Men and the Elephant, which I discussed a couple weeks ago. First the selection from the...
by Brian | Jul 30, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
Tonight we’ll have Josh Nelson bringing the word for our meeting. Next week I hope to finish the series on epistemology. In the meantime, I saw this passage from John Frame’s The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God that summed up so much of what we’ve...
by Brian | Jul 20, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
When we speak about knowing things as Christians, one thing to remember is that the way we use the word faith is very different than the way our culture typically uses the word. Most people use the word to describe something other than knowledge. If you have faith, it...
by Brian | Jul 18, 2012 | Book Recommendations, Culture, Evangelism, Science
As we continue to study the Christian’s justification for claiming to know things about God and the world, it might be helpful to think for a moment about how the Scientific Method relates to what we know as Christians. What do we say if someone says they...
