Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: Whenever smart people deny certain key attributes of God, like His sovereignty, this is not because they dislike that attribute. No, actually, they often like that attribute very ...
“They cannot be brought to understand that they think something that would make anything like thinking impossible.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 66
“In short, if thought is subjective there is no reason to trust my thought that thought is subjective.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 56
Letter to the Editor: It staggers the mind that otherwise intelligent conservative Christians would think for a millisecond that an "office of diversity" is a good thing. Are they ...
Dear Dawson, I am glad that I appear to be getting at the crux of your questions. What I want to do in this letter is discuss equity and equality, and how we are to understand those words when it comes ...
“What does the Holy Spirit like best in a preacher? The Spirit most delights in the preaching of Christ.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 63
“A blind, purposeless and material process does not and cannot know that it is blind, or purposeless, or material. It cannot know anything. If thought is simply the froth on the waves of our brain activity, then one of the first things that thought loses is the ability to know that there is even such a thing as brain activity, or froth for that matter. If human argumentation is simply the epiphenomena that our brain chemistry produces, then there is absolutely no reason to trust human argumentation—including the arguments that urge us to believe that argumentation is simply the epiphenomena that our brain chemistry produces. If reason is simply what these chemicals do under these conditions and at this temperature, then we cannot know that such things as ‘chemicals’ exist, and we certainly cannot know about ‘conditions’ and ‘temperatures.’”
The Light From Behind the Sun, pp. 54-55
“In my view, whatever form the argument takes—although this may be just me—it is a slam-dunk, knock-down, set-the-tattered-remains-on-fire argument.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 53
“In haste I ordered a copy of The Defense of the Faith . . . and breathed a sign of relief after I read it. I guess I was Van Tillian. There are worse things, I suppose.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 52
