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The Problem of Evil – Part 2

The Argument Formalized Sometimes it is useful to formalize an argument in order to work through it. The argument we have presented already can easily be placed in such a form as follows: a) God is all powerfulb) God is all lovingc) God knows that evil existsd) Evil does existe) Therefore, God does not exist [...]

The Problem of Evil – Part 1

The Problem of Evil One of the most common complaints against Christianity is the Problem of Evil. This particular complaint has plagued Christian apologists for literally thousands of years. For as long as evil has existed in the world, mankind has questioned why a God who is seemingly able to rid the world of such [...]

A Conversation with "Blast"

The other day I had a very interesting conversation with an unbeliever in an IRC discussion room I frequent. I wanted to share it here because I think it is a fairly good representation of how to put the presuppositional method of apologetics into practice. The conversation lasted about an hour. There was no repentance [...]

A Study of "Always Ready" – Part 1

Yesterday afternoon (or yesterday evening, depending on whether you live in Norway or not) the four of us here at Choosing Hats conducted our first Study of the book “Always Ready” by Dr. Greg Bahnsen. For those unfamiliar with the book, this is really the seminal work in presuppositional apologetics. Although the book doesn’t go [...]

What's in the queue?

At the suggestion of Paul (Paul seems to have a lot of suggestions), the contributors to this blog will be starting a weekly discussion of presuppositional apologetics, centered around the book “Always Ready” by the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen. The reason I mention this here is because we are planning on recording the audio from [...]

A Study In The Nature Of God's Word (Authority) – Part 2

The nature of faith and knowledge Some of you might complain about my goal to demonstrate the Bible as inerrant. You might say “Brian, doesn’t the Bible speak about faith? Isn’t that how we are supposed to approach Jesus Christ – on faith? Isn’t all of this discussion about ‘proving this’ and ‘demonstrating that’ simply [...]

A Study In The Nature Of God's Word (Authority) – Part 1

God is good and is worthy of our praise. You know, this seemed to me like an appropriate place to start, even though this is a phrase that is considered somewhat of a cliché by many these days. However, if we don’t begin with a confession of who God is, then we will be tempted [...]