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Blogging is a great way to reach souls for Christ, especially in a world where everyone is blogging and everyone is reading blogs. Many people are attacking the faith through blogs and unfortunately, Christian kids don’t need to wait for college to be indoctrinated by an atheist professor, they just need to get on the internet. Being exposed to anti-Christian propaganda at an early age is just as easy and likely as getting exposed to porn! An anti-theist argument is one click away! However, the apologists of this generation have taken up arms against those who try to discredit the Christian worldview. We’ve done this by making blogs of our own and “tearing down arguments and everything that sets itself up against the knowledge of God…” (2 Corinthians 10:5) through services like Blogger and WordPress. To aid my brothers and sisters who “contend for the faith” (Jude 1:3) via the internet, I offer 5 pieces of advice on how to improve your blogs. These are pieces of advice that have been given to me by those were blogging for Jesus before me, and I’m now going to share that advice with you.

One of the things that repels people from studying apologetics is that they don’t think they’re smart enough to understand or remember the information given in an article or book, and this belief is only re-confirmed if they pick up a book on apologetics or go to a website and they can’t understand half of what you’re saying. Even I have read some material that was a bit over my head (most recently, The Blackwell Companion To Natural Theology).

Most average people aren’t exposed to words like “ontological”, “epistemological”, “syllogism”, “quantum fluctuations”, “post-hoc ergo propter hoc” or other big philosophical or scientific terms that often come into play when writing about Christian Apologetic subjects, and things
that contain a lot of big words like that can be intimidating to the average Joe. Now, I’m not saying we should avoid using terms like that. For one thing; I myself have used these terms in earlier blog posts, so I would be a hypocrite if that’s what I was arguing. For another thing, being able to communicate the arguments would sometimes be impossible if we didn’t resort to words like the above. For example, it would be impossible for me to talk about The Ontological Argument if I neither used terms like “ontological” or “possible worlds”.

However, what I am saying is that we should try to be as simple as possible when conveying scientific and philosophical content to our audiences, and when unusual terminology (like the aforementioned examples) come into play, we should explain what they mean before proceeding. If you’ve read my blog post on The Ontological Argument for God’s existence, you’ll know that before even listing the premises in the argument, I briefly explained what I meant by “Maximally Great Being”, “Possible Worlds”, and “Ontological”. I explained what these terms meant, and then I defended the premises of the argument.

Most people who read blogs don’t have PH.Ds in philosophy or science. Most people who read blogs don’t even have a Master’s in these fields.

Fortunately, I think I’ve reached this goal with most of my posts. Of all the positive feedback I’ve received for Cerebral Faith, one the things I keep hearing is how accessible and easy to understand my articles are, even on what I would consider to be the most complex and sophisticated of topics, and this feedback comes from ordinary people, not doctors or M.As, which makes this feedback more reliable since what is simple for someone with a Ph.D may still be complicated to a layman.

Just as soon as I mention an area where I excel, I have to mention an area where I don’t, and it is this; bloggers must strive to be as brief as possible. People who go onto blogs want an article that doesn’t take too long to read. If it is too long, they’ll lose interest and go on to something else.

If you’ve noticed, some of my articles are kind of long (e.g “The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection PART 1”, “The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection, PART 2”, “The Fine Tuning Argument For God’s Existence (Updated Version)” etc.). However, I do think that since 2014, I’ve done a pretty good job with MOST of the articles I’ve written, even if a few I’ve written were book chapter length. As for those that are rather lengthy, I apologize to my readers and exhort you to set aside time when you’ll be able to read them in their entirety. They will be worth it, I promise you, because they argue for the truth of Christianity and will equip you if you’re a believer, and perhaps convict you if you’re a non-believer.

So, okay, I struggle with brevity. Nevertheless, I do my best to keep my articles short. I type them up on Microsoft Word before copy/pasting them into Blogger’s type window. By doing that, I’m able to keep track of their length. My goal is to keep the blog posts to a maximum length of
4 pages.

It should be convenient for your followers to maneuver your website with ease. Several months ago, I realized that it was getting more For example, the “Natural Theology Library” contains blog posts about various arguments for God’s existence like The Kalam Cosmological Argument, The Fine Tuning Argument, The Moral Argument, and so on. The Natural Theology Library lays out not only the first articles I’ve ever written on the subject, which give a basic defense of these arguments (e.g “The Kalam Cosmological Argument”), but also follow up posts answering questions and challenges raised against the argument (e.g “Does The First Law Of Thermodynamics Undermine The Kalam Argument?”). The “Atheist Criticism Library” involves answering various challenges raised against Christianity from the secularists both in academia and on the internet. This library contains posts such as “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering (Revisited)”, and “The Doctrine Of Hell and Objections To It”

I’ve created a Facebook page and a twitter account for Cerebral Faith so that people can get updates whenever I submit a new article.

Not every post on the Facebook page or the Twitter account will be for a new article. Often times I post and tweet older articles in addition to the new

I’ve added a widget that allows you to follow my posts via Net Vibes and My Yahoo. This will help my readers stay up to date with the blog posts I write if they happen to use those services. I’ve also made it to where people can alerts sent straight to their e-mail inboxes whenever a new entry is published. All of these are ways my readers can know when a new entry is made. If you run a Christian Apologetics blog, or really, any kind of blog at all, I would suggest you do these things as well.