Posted on December 11, 2009 by thinkpoint
“Our society’s technological fascination and the device of science produce commodities of theories and facts and discoveries that are often thought to negate any possibility for believing the biblical account of human beginnings. I experience the opposite effect. Whatever science ascertains simply amplifies my wonder at all that God created. It doesn’t matter to me so much how God [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by thinkpoint
Has anyone read this book?
Barrett is Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind and is Lecturer in the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. With Roger Trigg, Barrett directs the Cognition, Religion, and Theology Project at Oxford.
I am reading his book in relation to a series I gave at a [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by thinkpoint
If there is no creator, no God, then our existence is most certainly a cosmic accident. We do not exist by design or purpose; we exist by chance. And, if this is the true accounting for our existence:
1. All notions of ultimate meaning are reduced to wishful thinking or irrational fantasy.
2. There is no ultimate [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2009 by thinkpoint
An amazingly bold statement of faith:
“Humanity’s rich repertoire of thoughts, feelings, aspirations, and hopes seems to arise from electrochemical brain processes, not from an immaterial soul that operates in ways no instrument can discover.” (International Academy of Humanism)
In, The Wall Street Journal,
God vs. Science Isn’t the Issue:
Seldom do we act
as if [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2009 by thinkpoint
Several years ago, I spoke at a conference for church leaders in Florida on the theme of unbelief. I asked the question, “Why do people refuse to believe the gospel?” We explored the issue from four perspectives:
Theological (the work of theologians): creation, the fall and redemption.
Epistemological (the work of philosophers and [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2009 by thinkpoint
What’s wrong with the following statements:
“Nothing is universally true.”
“All generalizations are false.”
“No belief is true for everyone.”
“Everything is relative.”
“Everyone’s beliefs are true or false only relative to himself.”
When someone says, “Everything is relative” does he expect that others should believe his statement and adjust their lives to it?
What do we mean when we say that these [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by thinkpoint
by Steve Cornell
I have become increasingly convinced that a good number of people who attend Christian churches could not identify and articulate the essential doctrines of the Christian faith.
By essential doctrines, I mean the non-negotiable truths of Christianity—specific doctrines that, if rejected, would place one outside the historically recognized boundaries of Christian orthodoxy. These doctrines [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2009 by thinkpoint
Is there proof of God? The following offers candid, straight-forward reasons to believe in the existence of God…
By Marilyn Adamson
Just once wouldn’t you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God’s existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, “You just have to believe.” Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2008 by thinkpoint
An honest atheist strikes the right chord
Is it possible that most atheists reject God’s existence not because they lack evidence for God but because of a deep revulsion to the thought of answering to such a being? Could atheism be misguided wish-fulfillment? Some atheists would like us to believe that there is simply too much [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2008 by thinkpoint
Acts 17:16-34
“While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. A group of Epicurean [...]
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