Halloween has its roots in the ancient Druid belief that one day out of the year the curtain between the earthly world and the world of ghouls and goblins was opened. With much of the myths of the world now laid to waste and forgotten, Halloween persists. Why is Halloween still so popular and why do…
Monthly Archives: October 2017
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“I believe in science,” said Hillary Clinton. “We should not have people in office who do not believe in facts and truths and modern science,” said Leonardo DiCaprio. What these two have in common with the general public is their misunderstanding of the nature of science and the lack of appreciation of the number of philosophical…
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When I think about my God… My God who flung the stars into the night and named them,Who took the sky and sea and framed them,Who pulled back the ocean tides, restrained them, Breathed life into His own and claimed them… When I think about my God,Who before He gave the wind direction,Before He assigned…
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It takes minimal effort to find hundreds of alleged contradictions scattered across the vastness of the internet. How credible are these challenges to the Bible? Spoiler alert – most charges of contradiction made by skeptics are fallacious; they are either the result of a misreading, a failure of proper exegesis or lack of philosophical nuance, or a combination…
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“I can’t believe you believe the Bible,” he said, “Don’t you know there are thousands of Bible contradictions in there?” This sort of statement is unfortunately prevalent on the internet. Even worse, biblical contradictions are charged by top-tier scholars in New Testament studies. How legitimate are these so-called Bible contradictions?
