Evidence for God from Science

Hey Bobby, K handled the major objections in your post pretty well, so I'll just focus on the question, "How do you experience God?" There is a lot to (and a lot in) that question, so obviously my answer couldn't be complete. It definitely isn't authoritative, but it's something to get you...

Dagnabit K, you beat me to it.

Good links, Bav. I'm always liking new links.

Hey Stan, good to have you aboard. I'm really glad to hear about your approach to life . . . something I think we would all do well to pick up a bit on!

God bless

That's fine and good, mosa . . . but you are aware that (according to the Scriptures), Jesus actually claimed to BE God. His first followers expressly said that He was Yahweh (in your interpretation, Allah) Himself (see John 1:1). I'm not too familiar with the Koran--I could look up the passage if n...

This is somewhat concerning: A Barna Poll last year (Dec. '03) revealed that only 4% of American adults have a biblical worldview, defined as: . . .believing that absolute moral truths exist; that such truth is defined by the Bible; and firm belief in six specific religious views. Those views were t...

That is the definition Karl Popper gave to a scientific theory, and I'm not aware of any disagreement over it. It certainly is the main stream idea, but it most certainly has been and still is under criticism. Whether or not that criticism is founded is for each person to decide, I guess . . . Here...

Hey, let me continue to harp on the "literal" issue some more ;). K exactly nailed where I was going with it, so let me just lay out some of the more specific problems with the term. As you noted the definition for "literal" is: "in accordance with, involving or being the pr...

although I'm not sure I'd be ready to dismiss reason so quickly as an actual source given that it seems to me that logical reasoning does lead to new knowledge. I totally agree that reason leads to new knowledge. Let's take the idea of the Trinity. It isn't specifically formulated in the Bible, but...

Actually, BER, if I may comment on the "circular reasoning" again . . . John Frame differentiates between two types of circular arguments: those that are narrowly circular and those that are broadly circular (see Apologetics for the Glory of God or The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God ). W...

I'm sure everyone has a take on this, and I imagine we'd all pretty much be able to come to a common consensus on it, but, before going into details, let me just ask you two questions:

1) What do you mean by "literal"?
2) What interpretations of Genesis 1-2 are you aware of?

I'm not so much a fan of the Vulgate, personally. I wish I had my translation comparison chart on hand, but I don't. Anyway, at the moment, I study from by NASB '95 update (next to interlinear, it's the strictest formal equivalent out there)--published by Zondervan and preach out of my NIV, also pub...

I'm wondering, did you do an introduction to theology subject in your studies? Just that from my own, there are generally four recognised sources of theology within Christianity that seem equivical to your characterisations above. For example, there is Scripture (biblical), tradition (ecclesiastica...

Here's one for all the Christians on board, both active and lurking. What would you classify yourself as and why: 1) A Biblical Christian 2) An Ecclesiastical Christian 3) A Pneumatological Christian These are in alphabetical order so as not to offer any type of preference. If none of the above, ple...

In my Survey of Theology class, we're spending the next three weeks looking at bibliology. Of course, inspiration is a big issue, so I wanted to see what you guys thought. Please note, this is not so much about inerrancy. If that comes up, we can deal with it, but the inspiration of the Bible is a s...

But right now we're living inside time. So we'll be both inside and outside time, but that's a logical contradiction. I'm guessing you have a static view of God's relationship to time (Lewis, Augustine). For the most part, I agree with that position, I think. In any case, there are two possible sol...