As we approach another anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg (Germany), this question has been on my mind: was the movement that came to be known as the Protestant Reformation a revolution seeking to establish something new or was
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This is the third installment in our series on the Kalam. You can view part two, here, and part one, here. In this blog post, we now jump to the philosophical reasons for why we think the universe had a beginning. There are two philosophical reasons that give us reasonable
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A hand went up in the back of the room, “What is that all about? I thought church was not supposed to be about politics,” she said. We were in a membership class and I was teaching about our church’s history and beliefs. Her hand went up after I referenced
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In this blog post, we look at the second premise and our justifications for thinking that the universe began to exist out of nothing. Our first scientific argument for believing that the universe began to exist is the expansion of the universe. General Theory of Relativity In 1917, Albert Einstein
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The Kalam Cosmological argument is used to show that God’s existence is more probable than not based on the universe beginning to exist. The argument goes like this: Premise one is obvious to any seeker after truth but unfortunately atheists and agnostics will still question the first premise so let’s
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“I just got a Bible but I don’t know where to start reading.” This is a question I’ve heard dozens of times over the years when talking with people who are new to the Christian faith. Often I might point someone to one of the Gospels just to get them
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