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# Cerebral Faith

Christian Apologetics, Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, an Intellectually Fulfilled Christianity

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- [The Blog (1)](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-blog-1/) - Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on LinkedIn (Opens
- [A Brief Explanation Of The Image Of God](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-brief-explanation-of-the-image-of-god/) - In Genesis 1:26-27, at the end of the creation days, we hear God announcing to his divine council, "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over
- [Why I Think Yahweh Addresses His Divine Council In Genesis 1:26](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-think-yahweh-addresses-his-divine-council-in-genesis-126/) - Pastor Miles Bridges has been preaching through a sermon series on Genesis 1-11 at Powdersville First Baptist Church. I've been going to this church for a while, but haven't been able to attend mid-week services due to my seemingly random work schedule. For weeks, Miles has been encouraging people to come on Wednesday nights to
- [Why I've Stopped Being A Keyboard Warrior](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-ive-stopped-being-a-keyboard-warrior/) - Cerebral Faith got its start in 2012. It was a tiny little apologetics blog on Blogger or Blogspot (whatever you want to call it), and the funny thing is that I created the blog because I got tired up typing out arguments for God's existence or the resurrection on Twitlonger and Facebook. I was still
- [A Subtle Thing I Missed About Jesus' Final Temptation (Matt 4)](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-subtle-thing-i-missed-about-jesus-final-temptation-matt-4/) - A while back, I wrote a lengthy essay titled "An In-Depth Look At The Temptations Of Christ" where I exegeted the account of Satan's three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness in Matthew 4. Even while compiling my notes and typing up the article, I learned some things about the temptation of Christ I hadn't
- [AI Is Coming For All Of Us, Not Just Artists](https://cerebralfaith.net/ai-is-coming-for-all-of-us-not-just-artists/) - I've noticed a disturbing trend lately; the rise of AI generated writings on Facebook and blogs. I won't deny that I've used AI in some of my writings. I've been quite candid about it in my blog post "How I Will And Will NOT Use AI". But my usage is minimal and really boils down
- [Ronn Johnson Misses The Mark On The Atonement](https://cerebralfaith.net/ronn-johnson-misses-the-mark-on-the-atonement/) - I've been listening to The Divine Council Worldview Podcast, and by listening, I mean "binging" it. I had gone nearly a year without listening to a single episode and I've gotten very far behind. I just made it to "EP054: John 1:29-51: How Did Jesus 'Take Away The Sin Of The World". I am reminded
- [Why There Is No More Comment Section](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-there-is-no-more-comment-section/) - I started Cerebral Faith in 2012. It was a simple blog on Blogspot or Blogger. I moved to WordPress in 2019 when I decided that I needed more than just a simple blog, but a more professional website to put out all kinds of content I wanted to produce, including The Cerebral Faith Podcast which
- [The ULTIMATE Defense of Jesus's Resurrection!](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-ultimate-defense-of-jesuss-resurrection/) - I've been hard at work generating the next installment of my "Blog Book" series. I actually decided to not make this book simply a compilation of articles, unlike the previous editions in the series. This book, "Eyewitnesses Of His Majesty: Why You Can Trust The Gospels - and the Case For The Resurrection Of Jesus"
- [Defending The Resurrection Of Jesus From John Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-resurrection-of-jesus-from-john-alone/) - Introduction: In this essay, I will be defending the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus using an 8 step syllogism I learned from Christian Apologist and content creator; David Pallmann. The testimony I will be examining in this essay is exclusively that which is found in the gospel of John. I will first defend the
- [Why I'm Not Interested In Debating Evolution](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-im-not-interested-in-debating-evolution/) - People who talk to me about origins sometimes find out that I am what you would call a "Theistic Evolutionist". If you've read blog articles on this website about Genesis 1, Genesis 2, Adam and Eve, et. al. that should come as no surprise to you. I typically will defend the validity of the Theistic
- ["He Appeared" - The Problem Of Vagueness With Minimal Facts](https://cerebralfaith.net/he-appeared-the-problem-of-vagueness-with-minimal-facts/) - As some of you may know, I have become more of a fan of what those in the apologetics community call "The Maximal Data Approach" to defending the resurrection of Jesus. I had an entire 11 part essay series on this blog which eventually was compiled into a book called "The Case For The Reliability
- [The Gender Of God Explained](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-gender-of-god-explained/) - The gender of the God of The Bible is sometimes brought up in conversations for some reason or other. In today's climate, the questioner may have underlying concerns related to feminism or gender identity. As a younger apologist, I had concerns about God being gendered at all. After all my philosophizing with the Kalam Cosmological
- [Defending The Resurrection Of Jesus From Luke Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-resurrection-of-jesus-from-luke-alone/) - Introduction: In this blog essay, I will give an in-depth defense of the historical reliability of the gospel of Luke. This will be done with the aim of establishing that the gospel of Luke is a credible source testifying to the resurrection of Jesus. In this essay, I will examine the case for and against
- [Q&A: The Moral Argument, Moral Relativism, and Perfect Being Theology](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-moral-argument-moral-relativism-and/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. A very common argument that I have heard for the existence of God is the moral argument. You argue as follows: “1: If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not
- [The Big Bang NOT Debunked - Another Response To Rationality Rules](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-big-bang-not-debunked-another/) - Stephen Woodford, a YouTuber known as Rationality Rules has produced another video trying to take down The Kalam Cosmological Argument. This one doesn’t attack the argument itself, but goes after one of the pieces of evidence that establish one of the premises. Again, for the uninitiated, The Kalam Cosmological Argument goes as follows 1: Whatever begins to
- [4 Questions Everyone Investigating The Case For Christianity Should Ask Themselves](https://cerebralfaith.net/4-questions-everyone-investigating-case/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. When it comes to investigating the evidences and arguments for and against worldviews, we need to realize that we human beings are not mere thinking machines; only considering the facts and logic, and
- [Q&A: Three Questions From A Deist In Thailand](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-three-questions-from-deist-in-thailand/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi, I’m a deist from ThailandHow would you answer objections to biblical God such asArgument number 1Premise 1: There is no such thing as BEFORE time since before need temporal relationPremise 2: Biblical
- [Defending The Resurrection Of Jesus From Matthew Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-resurrection-of-jesus-from-matthew-alone/) - Introduction: In this essay, I will examine the case for and against the historical reliability of the gospel of Matthew. I will make the case that the tax collector Matthew, who became one of Jesus' apostles, was indeed the author of the book that bears his name. I will also argue that the people and
- [William Lane Craig's Criticisms Of The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis One - Part 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/william-lane-craigs-criticisms-of/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. William Lane Craig is my number 1 all time favorite Christian philosopher and apologist. He is the one Christian Apologist whose views most closely align with my own concerning Arguments for God’s Existence,
- [William Lane Craig's Criticisms Of The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis One - Part 2](https://cerebralfaith.net/william-lane-craigs-criticisms-of_3/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. In this post, I continue addressing William Lane Craig’s Critique of The Cosmic Temple Inaguration view of Genesis 1 (CTI) defended in books such as John Walton’s The Lost World Of Genesis One.
- [Response To Hugh Ross' Objections To The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-hugh-ross-objections-to/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Recently, I wrote a blog post defending an interpretation of Genesis 1 called “The Cosmic Temple Inauguration View” which you can read about by clicking here. In this blog post, I will be
- [Responding To Jim Bendewald's 7 Objections To The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-jim-bendewalds-7/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I recently wrote a blog post called “The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis 1” which defends an interpretation that says that Genesis 1 is not an account of material origins, but of functional
- [Why There's No Conflict Between Evolution and a Historical Adam](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-theres-no-conflict-between/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Before I became an Evolutionary Creationist, I spent two years combing through the theological and scientific literature. I read lots of blog posts on BioLogo.org, and read books written by Evolutionary Creationists such
- [The Lost World or The Gnostic World?](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-lost-world-or-gnostic-world/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The film Is Genesis History? has gained a lot of attention from Christians and Non-Christians alike. Young Earth Creationists loved it, Non-Christians ridiculed it, and Old Earth and Evolutionary Creationists were dismayed by
- [Response To Keaton Halley's Critique Of The Lost World Of Adam and Eve (Part 1)](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-keaton-halleys-critique-of/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. On a young earth creationist website, www.creation.com, I stumbled across a paper criticizing The Archetypal view of Adam and Eve put forth in John Walton’s book The Lost World Of Adam and Eve:
- [Response To Keaton Halley's Critique Of The Lost World Of Adam and Eve (Part 2)](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-keaton-halleys-critique-of_12/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. On a young earth creationist website, www.creation.com, I stumbled across a paper criticizing The Archetypal view of Adam and Eve put forth in John Walton’s book The Lost World Of Adam and Eve:
- [Q&A: Emotional Objections From A Non-Christian Friend](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-emotional-objections-from-non/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi Evan,I am a Christian from Singapore.My question is with regard to my conversations with my friend who is a skeptic/atheist.She is very friendly and respects my faith, but whenever I bring up
- [Why I'm Not Going To Be Quiet About My View Of Creation](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-im-not-going-to-be-quiet-about-my/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. My parents are really supportive of my ministry and encourage me to pursue apologetic and theological study as much as I can. They have been supportive of me since I first dipped my
- [Q&A: Molinism, God's Love, and Those That Will Never Be Saved](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-molinism-gods-love-and-those-that-will-never-be-saved/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I recently thought of a possible new objection to Soteriological Molinism that I think is stronger than some of my older ones. On Molinism, even if God doesn’t create the unsaved to send them
- [Q&A: Thank You!...And A Question](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-thank-you-and-a-question/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi Evan, I’ve recently stumbled across your online resources from a Cross-Examined post you wrote. Your content has been extremely helpful in my “acceptance” of theistic evolution since I am both a scientist
- [Growing Weary Of The Evil World](https://cerebralfaith.net/growing-wary-of-the-evil-world/) - The past couple of days have been really terrible. This is going to be a rather informal blog post, it may read more conversationally than some of my other posts, but there are things happening in the world, and I just feel the need to talk about them. as I write this, I am using
- [I Am Charlie Kirk - It's More Than Politics](https://cerebralfaith.net/i-am-charlie-kirk-its-more-than-politics/) - I've had a lot of time to sit and think about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative political commentator who made a lot of content for Turning Point USA and who spoke and debated on a lot of college campuses. There are a few reasons why this has caused me so much anger.
- [Q&A: (Follow Up On) Molinism, God's Love, and Those That Will Never Be Saved](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-follow-up-on-molinism-gods-love-and-those-that-will-never-be-saved/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. (For the sake of anyone who reads this I am quoting a previous article: https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-molinism-gods-love-and-those-that-will-never-be-saved/). “It’s been a while since I’ve heard from you, Sam. It’s good to talk to you again.” Yeah
- [What Is The Divine Council And Is It Biblical?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-is-the-divine-council-and-is-it-biblical/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The Divine Council is the view that Yahweh; The God of Israel is the Master of a pantheon, if you will, consisting of lesser gods who serve Him, carry out His will, and
- [Who Needs Scholarship When You've Got The Holy Spirit?](https://cerebralfaith.net/who-needs-scholarship-when-youve-got-the-holy-spirit/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I’ve noticed something of a disturbing trend among fellow Christians. They seem to have a view of biblical interpretation that I like to call “Hermit Hermenuetics” or “Hermitnuetics”. Hermitneutics is the method of
- [William Lane Craig Responded To Me! Genesis 1, John Walton, and ANE Creation Texts.](https://cerebralfaith.net/william-lane-craig-responded-to-me-genesis-1-john-walton-and-ane-creation-texts/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Needless to say that I was surprised when I found out that William Lane Craig’s most recent episode of The Reasonable Faith Podcast was all about responding to my articles that I wrote
- [Q&A: Yet Another E-Mail On The FreeThinking Argument (With A Brief Note On Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism)](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-yet-another-e-mail-on-the-freethinking-argument-with-a-brief-note-on-plantingas-evolutionary-argument-against-naturalism/) - 3D graphics image by Quince Creative https://quincemedia.comAs I have mentioned before, I am now a believer in Libertarian Free Will however I still disagree with the freethinking argument. I wanted to discuss it with Tim Stratton directly, however he is busy at this point so we agreed that it would be best for me to
- [R.C Sproul's Failed Attempt To Explain Matthew 23:37-38](https://cerebralfaith.net/r-c-sprouls-failed-attempt-to-explain-matthew-2337-38/) - I have spent the last couple of weeks reading the late R.C Sproul's commentary on Matthew. This was obtained freely from Ligonier Ministries because they had a deal going on in December and January where you could pick anyone of RC Sproul's commentaries of your choosing and download it as an EPUB free of charge.
- [A Short Facebook Exchange On Molinism, Isaiah 55:11, and Acts 7:51](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-short-facebook-exchange-on-molinism-isaiah-5511-and-acts-751/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. So, recently, I was scrolling my Facebook timeline when I came across the following meme posted by a Facebook page. The meme had Acts 13:48 on it with the second panel having pictures of
- [Q&A: My New Position On Hell And Its Relation To Eschatology](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-my-new-position-on-hell-and-its-relation-to-eschatology/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi Evan I have read your recent articles on annihilationism particularly your review of Edward Fudge’s book The Fire That Consumes. Kudos to you for being willing to take your stance on such
- [Q&A: Chester Asks About John Walton's Functional Creation View](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-chester-asks-about-john-waltons-functional-creation-view/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hey, Evan! I follow your work here at Cerebral Faith and I really appreciate your research and output of work!! With that said I’ve been particularly following your take on the work of
- [Leviathan Is A Dinosaur From Your Imagination (And So Is Behemoth)](https://cerebralfaith.net/leviathan-is-a-dinosaur-from-your-imagination-and-so-is-behemoth/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures! Ever since childhood, I have been enthralled by these monstrous lizards who lived so long ago. My favorite dinosaur was and still is; the mighty T-Rex! Standing at an
- [A Few Of Chris Hansen's Problem With My Case For Jesus' Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-few-of-chris-hansens-problem-with-my-case-for-jesus-resurrection/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Recently, The Capturing Christianity Facebook Page posted “What is your favorite argument For Christianity?” I said that The Minimal Facts Argument For Jesus’ resurrection is. And then This Conversation Ensued… Then Christ Hansen
- [Non-Biblical Examples Showing Why Cultural Context Matters To Interpretation](https://cerebralfaith.net/non-biblical-examples-showing-why-cultural-context-matters-to-interpretation/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you’ve been following my blog post on The Cosmic Temple Inauguration View of Genesis One (click here to see the posts if you haven’t), if you’ve heard my interview with John Walton
- [Q&A: Combination Naturalistic Theories, The Probability Of Miracles, and Jesus' Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-combination-naturalistic-theories-the-probability-of-miracles-and-jesus-resurrection/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Mr. Minton,First of all, thank you so much for your huge body of work on this site. I’ve been diving deep into the question of Christianity’s truth lately and your work has given
- [Q&A: A Question About Fine-Tuning And Probability From A Skeptic In Egypt](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-a-question-about-fine-tuning-and-probability-from-a-skeptic-in-egypt/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Dear Mr. Evan, How are you? I hope all is well with you. Let me introduce myself to you; I am Raafat, an on-the-fence skeptic from Egypt, who leans more on the side
- [The Beauty Argument For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-beauty-argument-for-gods-existence/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. “All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.” – Cecil Francis Alexander1 “Indescribable. Uncontainable. Who put the stars in the sky and
- [Q&A: A Possible Conflict Between The Moral and Ontological Arguments](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-a-possible-conflict-between-the-moral-and-ontological-arguments/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I have relatively recently thought up an objection to the Ontological argument as I see a conflict between it and the theory of ethics you and many other Christians hold. I am assuming
- ["Worship Me Or Burn' - The Oversimplification Of An Atheist Meme](https://cerebralfaith.net/worship-me-or-burn-the-oversimplification-of-an-atheist-meme/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Atheists frequently mock God through memes or tweets or social comments that basically go something like the following; “God says ‘Love me or I’ll torture you forever!’ such a good God”, “Worship me
- [Genesis 10-11: The Tower Of Babel, The Fall Of The gods, And The Divine Council Worldview](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-10-11-the-tower-of-babel-the-fall-of-the-gods-and-the-divine-council-worldview/) - Abstract: The historical account of The Tower Of Babel is a story all Christians are familiar with. It’s hard to think, therefore, that such a familiar historical narrative could be misunderstood in several ways, and it’s theological significance be overlooked entirely. I will explain two things in this paper, one of them is what many
- [Genesis 9: Noah's Nakedness, The Sin Of Ham, and The Curse Of Canaan](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-9-noahs-nakedness-the-sin-of-ham-and-the-curse-of-canaan/) - Abstract: Genesis 9:20-27 comes at the end of the Genesis flood narrative covered in Genesis 6-9. This account baffles many Bible readers because it appears as though Noah curses his grandson Canaan, son of his son Ham, simply because Ham walked in and accidentally discovered Noah passed out naked and drunk. This seems like quite
- [Genesis 6-9: The Extent and Historicity Of The Flood](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-6-9-the-extent-and-historicity-of-the-flood/) - Abstract: In this paper, I will examine the biblical account of the deluge that destroyed all of humanity except for Noah and his family. I will argue from the biblical text that the flood was local and that it was never intended to be taken as an account of a global flood; a flood that
- [Genesis 6: The Nephilim - Descendents Of Cain, Neanderthals, Ancient Kings, or Angel-Human Hybrids?](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-6-descendents-of-cain-neanderthals-ancient-kings-or-angel-human-hybrids/) - Abstract: In this paper, I will argue that the most exegetically tenable interpretation of who The Nephilim were is that they were the giant hybrid offspring of fallen angelic beings known as The Watchers with human women. The Watchers descended onto Mount Hermon, took on corporeal form, and mated with human women in an attempt
- [Genesis 5 - The Case For Long Ages Being An Instance Of Biblical Numerology](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-5-the-case-for-long-ages-being-an-instance-of-biblical-numerology/) - Abstract: The incredibly long ages attributed to the biblical patriarchs in Genesis has baffled many a Bible student for ages. In a time when even the most advanced medicine and fitness and health programs can get you to up to 120 years old if you’re lucky, it seems to stretch credulity to believe that the
- [Genesis 4 - What History's First Criminal Report Can Teach Us](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-4-what-historys-first-criminal-report-can-teach-us/) - Abstract: Genesis 4 Is most notorious for the account of the first murder recorded in the Bible and most likely the one that first occurred in the history of mankind. However, there is a lot more that the Bible is telling us than just that one guy killed his brother. Genesis 4 actually contains a
- [Genesis 2 & 3: Adam and Eve As Archetypes, Priests In The Garden Of Eden, and The Fall](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-2-3-adam-and-eve-as-archetypes-priests-in-the-garden-of-eden-and-the-fall/) - Abstract: In this paper, I will make the case for the following statements (1) that Genesis 2 is a sequel to Genesis 1. (2) that Genesis 2 does not teach that Adam and Eve were de novo creations, but instead, that the accounts that speak of them being formed from dust and rib are features
- [Genesis 1 - Functional Creation, Temple Inauguration, and Anti-Pagan Polemics](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-1-functional-creation-temple-inauguration-and-anti-pagan-polemics/) - Abstract: In this paper, I will argue that Genesis 1, when interpreted in its Ancient Near Eastern context, is not about God materially creating the universe over 6 calendar days or even 6 long ages. Rather, the text is a theologically rich statement affirming three major things (1) That God assigned functions to everything that
- [Q&A: An Objection To My Genesis 5 Paper](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-an-objection-to-my-genesis-5-paper/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Concerning the post entitled: Genesis 5 – The Case For Long Ages Being An Instance Of Biblical NumerologyWhen Adam and Eve took their gift of free will and chose to disobey the authority
- [The Book Of Job - How Divine Council Theology Provides A Plausible Solution](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-book-of-job-how-divine-council-theology-provides-a-possible-solution/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The book of Job has long puzzled many Bible readers. The entire story appears to make it look as though God allows Satan to torment Job with every manner of hardship just to
- [Jim Boucher Responds To The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/jim-boucher-responds-to-the-maximally-great-argument-against-calvinism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism (here on abbreviated a MGAAC) attempts to show that the Arminian tenet of God’s universal salvific will and unlimited atonement logically flow out of Perfect Being Theology
- [Ed Dingess Responds To The Maximally Great Argument against Calvinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/ed-dingess-responds-to-the-maximally-great-argument-against-calvinism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. It seems that more Calvinists are becoming aware of my Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism. The argument was formulated on my part out of a frustration to convince Calvinists that God loves all
- [Eternal Universe Models - Going For The Philosophical Jugular](https://cerebralfaith.net/eternal-universe-models-going-for-the-philosophical-jugular/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The Kalam Cosmological Argument is an argument that I have spent many years studying and debating, and many articles on this website defend the premises against rebuttals from atheists (Click here if you
- [The Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism - Responding To Ed Dingess' Follow Up Response](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-maximally-great-argument-against-calvinism-responding-to-ed-dingess-follow-up-response/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago titled “The Maximally Great Argument For Arminianism” which attempted to show that God’s universal salvific will logically flows out of Perfect Being Theology.
- [Addressing Ed Dingess' Critique Of My Prevenient Grace Article](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-ed-dingess-critique-of-my-prevenient-grace-article/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I recently was contacted by a theologian named Ed Dingess who runs the website www.reformedreasons.com letting me know that he had wrote a “refutation” of my Maximally Great Argument against Calvinism, and if
- [Calvinists and The Fallacy Of Illegitimate Totality Transfer](https://cerebralfaith.net/calvinists-and-the-fallacy-of-illegitimate-totality-transfer/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. You may remember my blog post series on logical fallacies way back in 2016 when this website was still on a Blogspot platform. There were 28 posts each examining a formal or informal
- [Why The Problem Of Evil Is a Failed Argument For Atheism](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-the-problem-of-evil-is-a-failed-argument-for-atheism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Abstract: The Problem of Evil is considered one of the most potent objections to the existence of God there is. There are actually three different version of the problem of evil, two of
- [How An Atheist Helped Me Overcome The Divine Hiddenness Objection](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-an-atheist-helped-me-overcome-the-divine-hiddenness-objection/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Divine Hiddenness is one of the arguments that atheists give against the existence of God. I’ve considered this an even more potent objection than the problem of evil. The Divine Hiddenness argument goes
- [Super Hero Theodicies!](https://cerebralfaith.net/super-hero-theodicies/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Making pop culture references when doing apologetics or trying to explain any philosophical or scientific or theological point is always fun. You have a chance to get nerdy and talk about your favorite
- [Anime Theodicies!](https://cerebralfaith.net/anime-theodicies/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. In my previous blog post, “Super Hero Theodicies” I talked about how some of the most popular contemporary super hero movies provide some powerful illustrations to arguments against The Problem Of Evil. In
- [Q&A: Evidence and True Premises](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-evidence-and-true-premises/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi, I’m a new Christian trying to improve my apologetics. I recently stumbled upon an article you wrote for CrossExamined and there was something you wrote that confused me: “For an argument to
- [Why Theology Needs Philosophy](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-theology-is-the-handmaiden-of-philosophy/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I could name so many Christians (mostly in the Calvinist camp for some reason) who are either anti-philosophy or think it’s much less important than theology. There are also many atheists who, while
- [True and False Cases Of The God Of The Gaps Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/true-and-false-cases-of-the-god-of-the-gaps-fallacy/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Perhaps the most common response from atheists when it comes to arguments for the existence of God is “This is a God Of The Gaps argument!” The God of The Gaps fallacy occurs
- [Q&A: Questions About The Problem Of Evil, Divine Hiddeness, and Struggles With Doubt](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-questions-about-the-problem-of-evil-divine-hiddeness-and-struggles-with-doubt/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Dear Evan, Greetings! Before anything, I want to tell you that I really appreciate your work. I greatly admire Christians such as yourself who wish to share the truth of Christianity to
- [Three Surprising Places Divine Council Theology Shows Up In The Bible](https://cerebralfaith.net/three-surprising-places-divine-council-theology-shows-up-in-the-bible/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The Divine Council is a council of divine beings who live with and serve Yahweh. The Bible refers to them as “elohim” in Hebrew and “gods” in English translations. They make decisions with
- [Q&A: Question On God and Absolute Necessity](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-question-on-god-and-absolute-necessity/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr. Evan! I really love your blog! I find them quite easy to understand for a non-expert like me. I often find my mind going blank when reading some articles. Keep up
- [Q&A: On The Importance Of Biblical Inerrancy](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-on-the-importance-of-biblical-inerrancy/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Of course, if you’ve read my stuff on Genesis 1 , or even just my writings on The Primeval History period in general you’ll know why I don’t consider “Dome Cosmology” to be
- [Q&A: Molinism and The Infallibility Of God](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-molinism-and-the-infallibility-of-god/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Evan, I have a quick question which was forwarded to me by a friend. It really got me thinking. According to Molinism, God has knowledge of all ways the world could have
- [Q&A: What About Past Life Regressions That Can Be Verified?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-what-about-past-life-regressions-that-can-be-verified/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: On The Relationship Between Outside Nature Forming Features and Libertarian Free Will](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-on-the-relationship-between-outside-nature-forming-features-and-libertarian-free-will/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr. Minton Thank you so much again! If you don’t mind, I have another question. This has nothing to do with regressions this time, but about free will. About two years ago,
- [Q&A: Gay Genes and On What Is Unnatural](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-gay-genes-and-on-what-is-unnatural/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: Biblical Arguments Against The Soul?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-biblical-arguments-against-the-soul/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Greetings Mr. Evan, Thank you for your work on your blog, which I visit a lot of times. I want to ask you something about the soul. I figured you are the best
- [Q&A: How Could The Angels Have Rebelled?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-how-could-the-angels-have-rebelled/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr. Minton I want to ask about a certain topic that’s been on my mind. A friend of mine who is an agnostic shared to me that one reason she is hesitant
- [Q&A: Sin, Doubt, and Rationality](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-sin-doubt-and-rationality/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hey, Evan hope you are doing well. I wanted to ask your thoughts on this and this might be a stupid question, but do you think there may be a correlation with having unrepentant
- [Should We Not Use ANE Creation Texts To Understand Genesis?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-we-not-use-ane-creation-texts-to-understand-genesis/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Astrology Drawings Recently, I encountered an objection to The Cosmic Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis that I defend in my paper “Genesis 1: Functional Interpretation, Temple Inauguration, and Anti-Pagan Polemics” as well as
- [Q&A: Denis Asks A Question About The Kalam Regarding Causality and Time](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-denis-asks-a-question-about-the-kalam-regarding-causality-and-time/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I’d appreciate your comments. 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause; 2. The universe began to exist; Therefore: 3. The universe has a cause. The first premise, “Whatever begins to
- [Q&A: A World With Only God?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-a-world-with-only-god/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello again Mr. Evan, I know it’s probably unusual to have you settle an argument like this but I really need your help. My friend and I had an argument on the
- [Q&A: Are Having Depression and Anxiety Sins?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-are-having-depression-and-anxiety-sins/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: Could God Be Playing Us For A Fool?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-could-god-be-playing-us-for-a-fool/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi, I’m a Christian who’s been having….philosophical shower thoughts, let’s just say. These thoughts I’ve been getting have made me doubt my faith and I need help.So I’ve been thinking…what if God is
- [Q&A: The Ontological Argument and Possible Worlds With Nothing In Them](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-ontological-argument-and-possible-worlds-with-nothing-in-them/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr. Minton!I’m new to your site and your blog posts have been very inspiring and helpful to me! I recently entered college. As you know, it is a place where we Christians
- [Q&A: Several Questions about GodWorld, Molinism, and Divine Deception](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-several-questions-about-godworld-molinism-and-divine-deception/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr. Evan, thank you for answering my email last time. I’m here to update you regarding my friend. I had my friend read your post. It took her some time to reply
- [Unconditional Election and The Gospel of John](https://cerebralfaith.net/unconditional-election-and-the-gospel-of-john/) - Introduction The Gospel of John is a critical battlefield in the debate over biblical election. Calvinists and Arminians both find strong support for their respective views here. Arminians draw much attention to the passages which emphasize human responsibility. Calvinists point to passages which lay great emphasis on God’s sovereignty. In particular, Calvinists point to passages
- [Q&A: On Other Creatures That Are Fictional](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-on-other-creatures-that-are-fictional/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Evan!I wanted to ask your help on something. I got on a debate with a relative about the case of the resurrection. She keeps on responding to me that “claims are not
- [BOOK REVIEW: "The Resurrection Of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach" by Michael Licona](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-the-resurrection-of-jesus-a-new-historiographical-approach-by-michael-licona/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This is probably the best book on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus ever written. It is extremely well researched and documented, and the topics Dr. Licona covers ranges widely. He begins
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Human Freedom, Divine Knowledge, and Mere Molinism" by Tim Stratton](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-human-freedom-divine-knowledge-and-mere-molinism-by-tim-stratton/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. MAGNUM OPUS! Those are two words that come to mind when I think of the dissertation written by Dr. Tim Stratton. In this book, which is his dissertation, Tim Stratton defends the theologic
- [Was The Snappening Star Lord's Fault?](https://cerebralfaith.net/was-the-snappening-star-lords-fault/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. In Avengers: Infinity War, The Avengers were going to try to defeat Thanos by pulling the Infinity Gauntlet off of him since that made him so powerful that even multiple heroes couldn’t stop
- [Does Sola Scriptura Lead To Biblical Relativism?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-sola-scriptura-lead-to-biblical-relativism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. October 31st has come and gone. And while many people see the date as Halloween, we protestant Christians remember it as the anniversary of The Protestant Reformation. As I was thinking about the
- [Q&A: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Eternalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-kalam-cosmological-argument-and-eternalism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Good day, Mr Minton, I’ve happened to stumble upon your blog post on the Kalam Cosmological Argument, and I seem to have a few objections which I don’t think you have ever addressed,
- [How I Will And Will NOT Use AI](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-i-will-and-will-not-use-ai/) - It seemed like it happened overnight. One day, in early 2023, I got a weird Facebook ad that showed this face made of 1s and 0s saying "I can bring your weirdest ideas to life" followed by a display of someone writing a prompt "Mario charged with war crimes", and after the prompt was written,
- [In Defense Of The Divine Council Worldview - A Response To Marcia Montenegro](https://cerebralfaith.net/in-defense-of-the-divine-council-worldview-a-response-to-marcia-montenegro/) - Dr. Michael S. Heiser was an Old Testament scholar who lived from February 14th, 1963 to February 20th, 2023. His book "The Unseen Realm: Recovering The Supernatural Worldview Of The Bible" radically rocked my world several years ago. He, along with Dr. John Walton of Wheaton College did more than just change my views on
- [Yahweh Or Yahweh's Agent?: A Response To Ronn Johnson](https://cerebralfaith.net/yahweh-or-yahwehs-agent-a-response-to-ronn-johnson/) - The late Dr. Michael S. Heiser has been a huge influence on me as a Bible student. He and John Walton independently showed me just how insanely interesting The Old Testament in particular, and The Bible as a whole, can really be. Unfortunately, The Lord took him to Heaven in 2023. But his organization, The
- [Why You Should Believe In The Trinity: Responding To The WatchTower (Part 3)](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-you-should-believe-in-the-trinity-responding-to-the-watchtower-part-3/) - In the previous 2 articles, we've been responding to an evangelistic tract/booklet from The Watchtower Society called "Should You Believe In The Trinity?" In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the claim that The Trinity is logically incoherent at best and confusing at worst. I took the time to show that there are
- [Why You Should Believe In The Trinity: Responding To The WatchTower (Part 2)](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-you-should-believe-in-the-trinity-responding-to-the-watchtower-part-2/) - This is part 2 in a series of articles responding to a piece of anti-Trinitarian literature from The Watchtower Society's website, www.JW.org. It's a free digital booklet titled "Should You Believe In The Trinity?", and of course their answer is "No" and that's the case they're trying to make for it in the booklet. The
- [Why You Should Believe In The Trinity: Responding To The WatchTower (Part 1)](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-you-should-believe-in-the-trinity-responding-to-the-watchtower-part-1/) - Recently, I've begun engaging with Jehovah's Witnesses who have come to my door. In the past, I've not been able to because of one reason or another. I've not been home when they came knocking, I was in the shower, or what have you. The fact that they didn't come down my street often made
- [Addressing Lydia McGrew's Criticisms Of The Lost World Of Genesis One](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-lydia-mcgrews-criticisms-of-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one/) - Dr. Lydia McGrew is an analytic philosopher who has published copious amounts of written, audio, and video content. I want to make it clear from the outset that I respect Dr. McGrew and have found her material concerning the historical reliability of the gospels to be very helpful. I wholeheartedly put my stamp of approval
- [BOOK REVIEW: "In Quest Of The Historical Adam" by William Lane Craig](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-in-quest-of-the-historical-adam-by-william-lane-craig/) - I haven't really done a book review here on the blog in a while. But this book was too thought-provoking, and my review which I was typing out for Amazon and a Facebook post started getting way too lengthy, so here we are. After having it sit in my Logos library for around 2-3 years,
- [My Theological Epistemology Explained](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-theological-epistemology-explained/) - In this article, I'd like to explain what my theological epistemology is. Epistemology is the study of knowledge; what we know, how we know, how we can be sure our knowledge is really justified true belief and not just a false belief. And, moreover, it is the studies of the methods we use to arrive
- [The Minimal Facts Argument Is NOT Too Minimal - A Response To Erik Manning](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-minimal-facts-argument-is-not-too-minimal-a-response-to-erik-manning/) - Follower of this ministry will know that I am a proponent of The Minimal Facts Argument for The Resurrection of Jesus. I've studied this argument extensively since 2014; practically wearing out Habermas' and Licona's co-authored book "The Case For The Resurrection Of Jesus" because I kept studying it until I could get a perfect 100%
- [Psalm 91: Your Battle Anthem Against The Devil](https://cerebralfaith.net/psalm-91-your-battle-anthem-against-the-devil/) - As I have said in a couple of previous blog articles, I have been blessed to experience the Psalms as songs. The vast majority of these are performed by real people - a group called The Psalms Project - but there are a handful of musical Psalms I have found on YouTube that have been
- [The Gospel Eyewitness Argument For Jesus' Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-gospel-eyewitness-argument-for-jesus-resurrection/) - The resurrection of Jesus is the most crucial event for Christianity. According to The Bible, it was every bit as essential to pay for our sins as his crucifixion was (see Romans 4:25). Moreover, Jesus claimed to be God in places like Mark 14:60-64, John 8:58, and John 10:30, so if Jesus weren't God, then
- [Why I No Longer Think Walton's View Of Genesis 1 Functions](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-no-longer-think-waltons-view-of-genesis-1-functions/) - For a few years now, I have settled on a particular reading of Genesis 1, most popularly endorsed by the biblical scholar John Walton in books like "The Lost World Of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and The Origins Debate" (a popular level book) and "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology" (A scholarly level book). John Walton's
- [A Treatise On The Christian's Eternal Home](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-treatise-on-the-christians-eternal-home/) - In this article, I want to talk about where our hope as Christians truly lies. If you ask the average churchgoer, they will likely say "The Christian hope is to go to Heaven when we die." However, that is somewhat problematic. While that is something that will happen to followers of Christ when we die,
- [Genesis 1 and Psalm 115: The Imago Dei and The Intermediate State](https://cerebralfaith.net/genesis-1-and-psalm-115-the-imago-dei-and-the-intermediate-state/) - I have been blessed over the past several months to have experienced the psalms as they were intended to be consumed, as songs! A little while back, I wrote an article promoting The Psalms Project, which is a project headed by Shane Heilman in which he teams up with other music artists in an undertaking
- [GUEST POST: An Evidentialist Review Of Jason Lisle's "Ultimate Proof Of Creation"](https://cerebralfaith.net/guest-post-an-evidentialist-review-of-jason-lisles-ultimate-proof-of-creation/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GUEST-POST-An-Evidentialist-Review-Of-Jason-Lisles-Ultimate-Proof-Of-Creation-by-David-Pallmann.mp3This is a guest post written By David Pallmann.IntroductionA number of years ago, Christian astrophysicist and young earth creationist Dr. Jason Lisle wrote a book entitled The Ultimate Proof of Creation (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2009). The book is a creative introduction to presuppositional apologetics (hereafter PA) but from the perspective of the debate
- [Q&A: How To Convince People Of Their Badness](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-how-to-convince-people-of-their-badness/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi! I don’t speak English, so I hope my question is well translated: What is one way to prove that we humans are bad because of our corrupt nature? I have justified human
- [Q&A: The Biology Of Hormones And Its Implications For The Free Will Defense](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-biology-of-hormones-and-its-implications-for-the-free-will-defense/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello, Mr. MintonI hope you’re having a good day.I have with me a question brought about by reading countless articles on this certain topic. I first saw a post in Facebook about a
- [Q&A: A Friend Who Keeps Responding To The Solutions To The Problem Of Evil](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-a-friend-who-keeps-responding-to-the-solutions-to-the-problem-of-evil/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [BOOK REVIEW (Sort Of): NIV Live A Bible Experience.](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-sort-of-niv-live-a-bible-experience/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. The title of this blog post says “Book Review (Sort Of)…” because what I’m going to be reviewing isn’t technically a book. It’s an App. NIV Live is an App you can download
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Misinterpreting Genesis" by Ben Stanhope](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-misinterpreting-genesis-by-ben-stanhope/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Ben Stanhope does an excellent job of pointing out the exegetical fallacies of Young Earth Creationism in general and of the claims of The Creation Museum in particular. Young Earth Creationists views of
- [BOOK REVIEW: "How (Not) To Read The Bible" by Dan Kimball](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-how-not-to-read-the-bible-by-dan-kimball/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I read “How Not To Read The Bible” by Dan Kimball. It’s very good. It’s basically a big response to the “Evil Bible” crowd. Claims from bible verses attempting to paint God as
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Is God A Mysoginist?"](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-is-god-a-mysoginist/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This is a fantastic apologetics/biblical studies book. Anyone wanting to be a serious apologist for Christianity or for those who have intellectual stumbling blocks to becoming a Christian because of seemingly objectionable passages
- [Q&A: Who Will Fight The Good Social Media Fight For Christ?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-who-will-fight-the-good-social-media-fight-for-christ/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr.Minton, I am Andro Rizk and I have a question for you. But a bit of background first, I am very new to your blog but from what I read you have quite
- [Q&A: Ifs and Buts and The Effectiveness Of Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-ifs-and-buts-and-the-effectiveness-of-apologetics/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Please skip my initial little rant/personal thoughts and go straight to my question at the bottom if you are pressed for time. The beginning of my question will be marked with a row of
- [Q&A: Will Atheism Win Out In The End? Also, What Is Counter-Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-will-atheism-win-out-in-the-end-also-what-is-counter-apologetics/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: The Multiverse As An Argument For Religious Pluralism?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-multiverse-as-an-argument-for-religious-pluralism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Thank you very much Mr.Minton for your response to my previous question. I agree apologetics is breaking through into church culture, and how this isn’t the first time Christianity has been threatened. I
- [Q&A: The Miraculous and The Efficacy Of Arguments](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-miraculous-and-the-efficacy-of-arguments/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Straight to the questions.This initial group is about an atheist claim. Not a familiar one. Essentially, the atheist asks for evidence for God and the Christian then goes on to give arguments for God. The atheist then responds arguments aren’t evidence. This is principally the tag line for a channel called
- [Q&A: Turning The Dollar To A Million](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-turning-the-dollar-to-a-million/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hello Mr.Minton, I hope you’re well. I believe there is a quote that is featured in some of your articles that goes “we don’t need the next Million Dollar Apologist, we need a
- [Q&A: Things We Can't Control?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-things-we-cant-control/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Dear Mr. Minton,I hope you received this email well. There’s this question that has been on my mind for some time. As the title suggests, it’s about things we (probably) can’t control. I
- [Q&A: Why so sAd Hominem?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-why-so-sad-hominem/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I’m unsure if my first emil was sent so I am typing a simplified version of it. I am asking about Ad hominems.I mean this in the more relaxed sense of the word: mockery,
- [Revision To The Three Circles Model?](https://cerebralfaith.net/revision-to-the-three-circles-model/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Over the course of 40 comments, I’ve had a stimulating conversation with a Sam Burke in the comment section of the blog post “‘Worship Me Or Burn’ – The Oversimplification Of An Atheist
- [Q&A: Having Rock Solid Faith?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-having-rock-solid-faith/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi Evan, first of all I want to let you know that I really appreciate people like you who stand-up for our faith and defend it with all your heart and mind. I
- [Q&A: The Prior Probability Of Theism](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-prior-probability-of-theism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. ( Hello Mr. Minton, this is an email that I sent you at Mon,Mar 15, 3:54 PM. It has been roughly three weeks since the sending of that email. I am resending this
- [Q&A: Answers To A Reddit Atheist On The Resurrection Of Jesus.](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-answers-to-a-reddit-atheist-on-the-resurrection-of-jesus/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, I hope that you are in good health. As I traverse the internet, I notice that copy paste comments are prevalent. Sadly, this is also found in christian
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Inspiration and Incarnation" by Peter Enns](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-inspiration-and-incarnation-by-peter-enns/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Peter Enns’ “Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and The Problem Of The Old Testament” is a much needed book. I have noticed that a lot of people tend to think The Bible is in
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Wholly Smoke! The Myth Of Endless Torment" by Brother Bird](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-wholly-smoke-the-myth-of-endless-torment-by-brother-bird/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. “Wholly Smoke!: The Myth Of Endless Torment” by Brother Bird is an comprehensive, easily accessible defense of conditional immortality a.k.a annihilationism. Bird shows in chapter after chapter how the teaching that the damned
- [Q&A: Various Methods](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-various-methods/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Peace of Christ, Mr. Minton, may God bless you and the ministry abundantly. As I was watching a Kyle Alander video on his approach to christian apologetics and how it was different from what he
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Philosophical and Theological Essays On The Trinity" Edited by Thomas McCall and Michael C. Ray](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-philosophical-and-theological-essays-on-the-trinity-edited-by-thomas-mccall-and-michael-c-ray/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This is an absolutely fantastic work on the philosophical issue of the threeness-oneness problem regarding the doctrine of The Trinity. What I liked the most about this was the back and forth essay
- [Q&A: Alter Of The Unknown Natural?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-alter-of-the-unknown-natural/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Share this: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Print (Opens in new window) Print Email a link to a friend (Opens in new
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Father, Son, and Spirit in Romans 8" by Ron C. Fay](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-father-son-and-spirit-in-romans-8-by-ron-c-fay/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This is a pretty good book on Paul’s view of the Trinity. Fay’s aim is to see how the recipients of the epistle titled in our English Bibles as “Romans” would have understood
- [Modern Science vs Religion? Critical analysis of new atheist assertions concerning the interplay of science and religion popularized by viable memetic reproduction.](https://cerebralfaith.net/modern-science-vs-religion-critical-analysis-of-new-atheist-assertions-concerning-the-interplay-of-science-and-religion-popularized-by-viable-memetic-reproduction/) - APA - Edmonds, N. (2021) Modern Science vs Religion? Critical analysis of new atheist assertions concerning the interplay of science and religion popularized by viable memetic reproduction. Cerebral Faith. (link) Available - https://independent.academia.edu/NoahEdmonds Key terms: memetics, theism, atheism, christianity, fundamentalism, meme spreading, meme replication, meme reproduction Introduction Hardly anyone living in 2021’s post-internet culture would
- [Q&A: What Are Good Resources For Studying The Case For Jesus' Resurrection?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-what-are-good-resources-for-studying-the-case-for-jesus-resurrection/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: Some Textual Critical Questions](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-some-textual-critical-questions/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Hi CerebralFaith, Thanks for the links you sent me a while back. I am enjoying spending my free time reading through everything. I have some questions though on some textual issues. Almost every
- [Q&A: But What Is A Debate? A Miserable Pile Of Rhetoric?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-but-what-is-a-debate-a-miserable-pile-of-rhetoric/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I am proud of that email title. Keep it if you can. Anyway on to the question. It is really really simple. Are debates even worth watching? I mean, debates seem like the perfect way to
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Christianity Cross-Examined" by Ken Samples](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-christianity-cross-examined-by-ken-samples/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Ken Samples’ “Christianity Cross Examined” is a really good book. The task of Samples is to show that Christianity is not only true and rational to believe, but also that it’s relevant to
- [Q&A: How Do We Know Someone Other Than God Didn't Raise Jesus?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-how-do-we-know-someone-other-than-god-didnt-raise-jesus/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [Q&A: The MASSIVE Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-massive-argument/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Peace of Christ, Mr.Minton, hope you enjoy probabilities. I was rereading our last interaction and noticed how I said Yahweh is more probable than phoenixes purely through a more massive amount of experiences.
- [Some Thoughts On Universalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/some-thoughts-on-universalism/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I’ve been hard at work making PowerPoint slides for an upcoming series on Hell on The Cerebral Faith YouTube channel (Cerebral Faith Video). The series is designed to be like an online course
- [Q&A: A Weaker Interpretation Of Hume](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-a-weaker-interpretation-of-hume/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [BOOK REVIEW: "The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past."](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-the-kalam-cosmological-argument-volume-1-philosophical-arguments-for-the-finitude-of-the-past/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. “The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 1: Philosophical Arguments for the Finitude of the Past.” by Paul Copan (Editor), and William Lane Craig (Editor) is the first of a two part work defending the
- [Heartbreak At Hilbert's Hotel?](https://cerebralfaith.net/heartbreak-at-hilberts-hotel/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This article was formed as a result of me typing out my thoughts. Sometimes typing them out helps me organize my thinking. And sometimes I like to publish these if I think it’ll
- [Why The Divisibility Of Time Is Irrelevant To The Kalam Cosmological Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-the-divisibility-of-time-is-irrelevant-to-the-kalam-cosmological-argument/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Introduction In his essay “Finitism and the Beginning of the Universe”, Stephen Puryear [2014] says that defenders of The Kalam Cosmological Argument (of which William Lane Craig is perhaps the most prominent), have argued
- [Q&A: Is The Archetypal View Of Adam's Formation Heretical?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-is-the-archetypal-view-of-adams-formation-heretical/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Message Body:I read in your article that you believe that Adam being made of dust was a reference to his being mortal, in this case “Why There’s No Conflict Between Evolution and a
- [BOOK REVIEW: "The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2: Scientific Evidence For The Beginning Of The Universe"](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-the-kalam-cosmological-argument-volume-2-scientific-evidence-for-the-beginning-of-the-universe/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. “The Kalam Cosmological Argument, Volume 2: Scientific Evidence For The Beginning Of The Universe” is just as good as the first volume in this series. Both of these books are collections of a
- [Q&A: Alex O'Conner's Claim That The Kalam Is Circular](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-alex-oconners-claim-that-the-kalam-is-circular/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. If you have any questions about Christian theology or apologetics, send Mr. Minton an E-mail at CerebralFaith@Gmail.com. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Christian or Non-Christian, whether your question is about doubts you’re
- [BOOK REVIEW "Baby Dinosaurs On The Ark?" by Janet Kellogg Ray](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-baby-dinosaurs-on-the-ark-by-janet-kellogg-ray/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. “Baby Dinosaurs On The Ark?: The Bible and Modern Science And The Trouble Of Making It All Fit” is a good book on science and faith (although more so on the former than
- [Q&A: Are The Nephilim Still Around?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-are-the-nephilim-still-around/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. HI!I’m a student from eastern europe ;First of all i would like to thank you for your work now, the questions at hand: 1)Do the nephilim seed still exists today?2)if so, are they
- [BOOK REVIEW: "God and Ultimate Origins" by Andrew Loke](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-god-and-ultimate-origins-by-andrew-loke/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. This is probably the best book on the Cosmological Argument that I have read in a long time. It’s a scholarly book, so it is a bit technical, but it isn’t TOO technical.
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Fix Your Eyes: How Our Study Of God Shapes Our Worship Of Him" by Amy Gannett](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-fix-your-eyes-how-our-study-of-god-shapes-our-worship-of-him-by-amy-gannett/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. One of the things my ministry (Cerebral Faith) aims to do is to get Christians and non-Christians alike to “use the brains that God gave them” to cultivate an intellectually satisfying Christian worldivew.
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Undead: A Historical Investigation Into The Most Famous Miracle In History" - by Caleb Jackson](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-undead-a-historical-investigation-into-the-most-famous-miracle-in-history-by-caleb-jackson/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Caleb Jackson’s book “Undead” is a fantastic book on the resurrection of Jesus. Caleb’s case layout is as follows: 1: Establish the historical facts to be explained. 2: Examine what explanation best accounts for those facts. Those
- [Not Willing That Any Should Perish](https://cerebralfaith.net/not-willing-that-any-should-perish/) - 2 Peter 3:9 Revisited Introduction 2 Peter 3:9 is one of the primary texts that Arminians use in support of their belief that God desires the salvation of all men. The reason is evident enough. The verse clearly says that God is not willing that any should perish. But Calvinists often challenge the Arminian reading,
- [Who Does God Want to be Saved?](https://cerebralfaith.net/who-does-god-want-to-be-saved/) - 1 Timothy 2:4 Revisited Introduction In 1 Timothy 2:4, the apostle Paul declares that God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” Many Arminians see this verse as providing the strongest Biblical support for the belief that God wants everyone to believe and be saved. Realizing the difficulties
- [Some Brief Thoughts on Chris Bolt, Brian Knapp, and Truth](https://cerebralfaith.net/some-brief-thoughts-on-chris-bolt-brian-knapp-and-truth/) - Introduction In a recent episode of Revelationary on Air, presuppositional apologists Dr. Chris Bolt and Brian Knapp had some things to say about me. For those who are not aware, Dr. Bolt and myself have had a respectful but spirited ongoing dialogue regarding the differences between his presuppositionalism and my evidentialism. I offered a general
- [Q&A: The History Of Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-history-of-apologetics/) - Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Peace of Christ, Mr.Minton. As you have described before (if I recall correctly), we are in a golden age of apologetics. However, I would like to ask about the era before the golden
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Genesis For Normal People" by Peter Enns and Jared Byas](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-genesis-for-normal-people-by-peter-enns-and-jared-byas/) - Your browser does not support the audio element. Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. A good introductory level work to the book of Genesis. In this book, Enns and Byas talk about the overarching theme of the book of
- [Responding To D.A Carson's Commentary On Matthew 5:44-47](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-d-a-carsons-commentary-on-matthew-544-47/) - Your browser does not support the audio element. Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post that wasn’t a book review. Frankly, this one wouldn’t have been written,1 but as
- [Q&A: Human Sacrifice In Numbers 31?](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-human-sacrifice-in-numbers-31/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/QA-Human-Sacrifice-In-Numbers-31.mp3Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only.Good morning/afternoon/evening! I was chatting with people in a Christian discord server and one guy had questions regarding human sacrifice in the bible. He brought up Exodus and I showed him reasons why that
- [How Bleach Helped Me Conceptualize A Couple Of Biblical Concepts](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-bleach-helped-me-conceptualize-a-couple-of-biblical-concepts/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/How-Bleach-Helped-Me-Conceptualize-A-Couple-Of-Bibilical-Concepts.mp3 Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Bleach was and still is my no. 1 favorite anime and manga series ever since I first watched it as a teenager on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Written and drawn by Tite
- [Digimon Survive and Soteriology In The Molinist Framework](https://cerebralfaith.net/digimon-survive-and-soteriology-in-the-molinist-framework/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Digimon-Survive-and-Soteriology-In-A-Molinist-Framework.mp3 Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. Since January of 2021, my love for the Digimon Franchise was rekindled and has been burning brightly and consistently ever since. It started with deciding to watch the Digimon Adventure Tri movies
- [Defending The Trinity From John Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-trinity-from-john-alone/) - Introduction: This is the final part in a series of articles in which I defend the doctrine of The Trinity from a single gospel. None of these articles need to be read in order, despite being part of the series, and this one is no different. Though interested readers are more than welcome to check
- [Q&A: A New Approach To Arguing That The Bible Is Pro Slavery](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-the-topic-of-slavery-revisited/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/QA-A-New-Approach-To-Arguing-That-The-Bible-Is-Pro-Slavery.mp3 Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. A Roman Stoic philosopher named Dio Chrysostom (40-115 AD) explicitly condemned slavery in his 15th discourse “On Slavery and Freedom II (See 15:24-28). It was in the context of a dialogue between
- [Responding To Tsumura on "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology"](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-tsumura-on-genesis-1-as-ancient-cosmology/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Responding-To-Tsumura.mp3 Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I am someone who favors the Functional Origins/Cosmic Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. This view is prominently defended by and most commonly assosiated with John H. Walton of Wheaton College. Walton
- [Response To Noel Week's Critique Of "The Lost World Of Genesis One"](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-noel-weeks-critique-of-the-lost-world-of-genesis-one/) - https://cerebralfaith.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Response-To-Noel-Weeks-Critique-Of-The-Lost-World-Of-Genesis-One.mp3 Audio accessibility for this blog post is powered by Microsoft Text-to-Speech technology. These recordings are provided for personal, non-commercial educational use only. I am one who fully endorses what I like to call The Cosmic Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. Although technically, the name doesn’t fully encompasses my entire view or the view
- [Responding To Jacques B Doukhan's Critique Of "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology"](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-jacques-b-doukhans-critique-of-genesis-1-as-ancient-cosmology/) - I am one of those who thinks that The Cosmic Temple Inaguration view of Genesis 1 is correct. This view of Genesis 1 is most commonly assosiated with Professor John Walton of Wheaton College. He has written both an academic level and a popular level book defending this view with the former being titled "Genesis
- [Response To Richard Averbeck's Critiques Of "The Lost World Of Adam and Eve"](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-richard-averbecks-critiques-of-the-lost-world-of-adam-and-eve/) - A while back, in preparing a video collaboration with my friend and fellow YouTuber, Zach Miller, I read some critics of the thesis of "The Lost World Of Genesis One" that I hadn't read before. I drafted notes ahead of time and it ended up being more than notes! It ended up being an essay!
- [Is Jesus' Resurrection Too Improbable? A Response To Bart Ehrman and David Hume.](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-jesus-resurrection-too-improbable-a-response-to-bart-ehrman-and-david-hume/) - Back in 2018, I wrote a blog post series defending the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. The blog post series was about 12 parts long and consisted of defending The Minimal Facts Argument championed by scholars such as Gary Habermas and Michael Licona. Here are the links to those articles; “The Evidence For Jesus’ Resurrection –
- [Saving The Minimal Facts Approach From Lydia McGrew (PART 2)](https://cerebralfaith.net/saving-the-minimal-facts-approach-from-lydia-mcgrew-part-2/) - As the last part of this blog article's title suggests, this is the second part in a two part series in which I respond to Dr. Lydia McGrew's criticisms of The Minimal Facts Approach as a method of justifiably inferring the resurrection of Jesus. I have to say that I am even more disappointed with
- [Saving The Minimal Facts Approach From Lydia McGrew (PART 1)](https://cerebralfaith.net/saving-the-minimal-facts-approach-from-the-lydia-mcgrew/) - There are videos of McGrew and Erik Manning criticizing the Minimal Facts approach, but I decided not to interact with those as responding to videos takes even more time than responding to written articles. This is do to having to transcribe verbally spoken words into text form when quoting snippets for the sake of critique.
- [The Concept Of The Credentialed Layman](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-concept-of-the-credentialed-layman/) - Given that I'm currently writing criticisms of McGrew's anti-Minimal Facts stance, and given my recent revelation, it seemed good to me to write on a concept I've talked about in online discussions and with friends, but never put in writing; the concept of a Credentialed Layman. Whatever McGrew and I disagree on, one thing we
- [The Women At Jesus' Empty Tomb Revisited](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-women-at-jesus-empty-tomb-revisited/) - Image by Lumo Project. The Argument From The Criterion Of Embarrassment A common argument for the historicity of the empty tomb of Jesus is that all four gospels feature women as witnesses to the empty tomb, and women were (A) considered second class citizens in both first century Jewish and pagan circles, and (B) they
- [Does Deuteronomy 6:16 Endorse Fideism?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-deuteronomy-616-endorse-fideism/) - It is definitely true what they say about going through The Bible over and over and over. You always walk away with more than you did the previous times. It is also the case, as the late Old Testament scholar Michael Heiser has said; that "Bible Reading is not the same as Bible Study". Recently,
- [Why Doesn’t God Give Christians “Soul Tickets”?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-doesnt-god-give-christians-soul-tickets/) - The English dub for Bleach: The Thousand Year Bloodwar cour 2 of has finally come out. Those who know me know that Bleach is my all-time favorite anime. Here’s the premise of the show in a nutshell; it’s about a teenage boy named Ichigo Kurosaki who gains the power of the soul reaper and who
- [Does Deuteronomy 28:63 Contradict Ezekiel 18:23 and Ezekiel 33:11?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-deuteronomy-2863-contradict-ezekiel-1823-and-ezekiel-3311/) - As I was reading through my Bible, I came across a verse; Deuteronomy 28:63. This verse says "Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess." This verse
- [Cutting Off A Hand For Grabbing Testicles? A Look At Deuteronomy 25:11-12.](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-eye-for-an-eye-and-a-hand-for-balls-a-look-at-deuteronomy-2511-12/) - The Torah is full of all kinds of laws that Israel was to obey. That is why the first five books of The Old Testament are called "The Law". However, some of these laws might not seem fair, or might seem bizarre and come out of nowhere (looking at you Baby Goat command). One such
- [How To Fight The Culture War and Win](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-to-fight-the-culture-war-and-win/) - Are you tired of Drag Queen Story Hours? Are you tired of movies and television shows aimed at children needlessly including homosexual relationships in order to normalize homosexual relationships? Tired of the created order being upended by people who think gender can just be a matter of feeling and isn't rooted in biology (One's physical
- [My Fallback Position On Genesis 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-fallback-position-on-genesis-1/) - I have written many blog articles defending The Functional Origins/Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. This is the view most commonly associated with Professor John Walton of Wheaton College and is defended in his books "The Lost World Of Genesis One" and "Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology". This view holds that Genesis 1 is not
- [Can A Christian Disagree With Ywach?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-a-christian-disagree-with-ywach/) - SPOILER WARNINGS FOR BLEACH: THE THOUSAND YEAR BLOOD WAR! Ywach is the final villain of the Shonen anime series Bleach. Bleach is a series about a 15-year-old boy who has had the ability to see spirits ever since he was little. One day, his home is attacked by a hollow, an evil spirit that devours
- [Why Progressive Christians Are Wrong To Pit Jesus Against Paul](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-progressive-christians-are-wrong-to-pit-jesus-against-paul/) - If you've read books by Progressive Christians or argued with one on social media, you may have noticed that they have a tendency to pit the words of Jesus in the gospels against the words of Paul in the Pauline epistles. Let's say the topic is homosexuality. You believe that God disapproves of same sex
- [Does Dualism Entail That People Don't Really Die?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-dualism-entail-that-people-dont-really-die/) - Substance Dualism is the view that humans are body/soul composites in contrast to physicalism which asserts that humans are merely physical entities through and through, and that when the body dies, it's a cessation of consciousness and existence for the person who died. Unlike atheists, Christian physicalists believe that consciousness will be eventually be returned
- [In Defense Of The Chosen](https://cerebralfaith.net/in-defense-of-the-chosen/) - If you've been living under a rock for the past few years, you may not know that there is a hugely popular show streaming right now called "The Chosen". This show is produced by Angel Studios and is directed by Dallas Jenkins. It's about the life of Christ and his apostles during Jesus' three year
- [5 Reasons Why I Prefer Maximal Data Over Minimal Facts](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-reasons-why-i-prefer-the-maximal-data-approach-over-the-minimal-facts-approach/) - Recently, a skeptic has been blowing up my phone with Jetpack notifications by leaving a seemingly unending series of comments on an old 2018 article series titled "The Evidence For The Resurrection Of Jesus". In this article series, I defend the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus using a Minimal Facts Approach. A Minimal Facts
- [A Critique Of "Just Me and My Bible"](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-critique-of-just-me-and-my-bible/) - The Bible is an important book to put it mildly. In fact, as I'll say in a future article, I have plans to rigorously study it more intensely than I ever have before over the next 4 years. Recently, I have started running into an idea that has always been around, but seems to be
- [My Favorite Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-favorite-dietrich-bonhoeffer-quotes/) - Recently, I went to my local movie theater with my father and younger sister to see the movie "Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin." produced by Angel Studios. I had been looking forward to this movie for quite some time. Although I must admit that I have not fully read any of Bonhoeffer's books, I do know
- [The Psalms Project](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-psalms-project/) - Recently, I discovered a group of music albums on Spotify called "The Psalms Project". The albums are a compilation of various music artists who have put the Psalms from the biblical book of Psalms into, well, songs. I discovered this while searching for a song that made reference to Psalm 23. Shane Heilman is the
- [Overcoming The Bible's Barriers Of Entry](https://cerebralfaith.net/overcoming-the-bibles-barriers-of-entry/) - Biblical illiteracy is at an all time high in The United States Of America. There is a bit of irony here as God's word is more accessible than it has ever been. Bit only are there more English translations than we need being sold anywhere books are sold, but there are Bible apps for our
- [Why I Switched My Main Bible Translation (NIV to ESV)](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-switched-my-main-bible-translation-niv-to-esv/) - I've been a student of The Bible since I first got saved at 17 years old. What started as me being a baby Christian who liked to just read a passage or two a day turned into me being a mature believer with an addiction so bad I payed $50.00 a month for Logos Bible
- [The Mindset That Breathed Life Back Into My Prayer Life](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-mindset-that-breathed-life-back-into-my-prayer-life/) - I don't like closing my eyes and bowing my head and folding my hands. I don't like talking to God, as if he is some human king I do not personally know, and I need to be horribly afraid of and watch all of my Ps and Qs when I make my requests. "Sire, I
- [Psalm 22: A Look At The Darkest Psalm In The Bible](https://cerebralfaith.net/psalm-22-a-look-at-the-darkest-psalm-in-the-bible/) - In this essay, I will explain how Psalm 22 matches up with the description of Jesus, crucifixion in the gospels of Matthew and John perfectly. And thus, although it was initially by a severely depressed Israelite under unimaginable duress, the doctrine of Sensus Plenior is at play and Psalm 22 is ultimately a messianic prophecy
- [The Serpent In Eden: The Case For A Seraph Named Satan](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-serpent-in-eden-the-case-for-a-seraph-named-satan/) - In this essay, I am going to make a case that the serpent in Eden was not a mere ordinary garden snake, nor was it an undefined, chaos creature, but it was a serpentine divine being. Either a seraph or a cherub, and that, therefore, the traditional view that this being is Satan is correct.
- [What The Intelligent Design Movement Could Do To Better Itself](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-the-intelligent-design-movement-could-do-to-better-itself/) - When I first started getting into Christian Apologetics as an 18-year-old kid, I was introduced to the intelligent design movement. Led by big names such as Stephen Meyer and William Demski, people in this movement seek to establish the existence of a creator and designer of the cosmos and of life. Ever since it's inception,
- [False Friends In Modern Bible Translations](https://cerebralfaith.net/false-friends-in-modern-bible-translations/) - When you hear the term "False Friends" in the context of Bible Translations, one typically thinks of examples from the King James Version of The Bible in which words that meant one thing back in the day no longer mean what they mean now. When Yahweh says "Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's ass" (Exodus
- [Evangelism: Non-Violent Conquest Warfare](https://cerebralfaith.net/evangelism-non-violent-conquest-warfare/) - In Matthew 16:18, Jesus told Simon who he had just renamed Peter "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[a] I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (ESV) In this article, I will connect many theological dots from The Bible to make the case that evangelism is a form of
- [How Gospel Allegiance Solves Two Of The Church's Biggest Problems](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-gospel-allegiance-solves-two-of-the-churchs-biggest-problems/) - Relatively recently, I have read "Salvation By Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and The Gospel Of Jesus The King" by Matthew Bates. Some time later, I read "Gospel Allegiance: What Faith In Jesus Misses For Salvation In Christ" also by Matthew Bates. The latter version is a more popular defense of the thesis in the
- [An In Depth Look At The Temptations Of Christ](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-in-depth-look-at-the-temptations-of-christ/) - Hebrews 4:15 says "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin." (NIV) In this essay, we will look at the temptations of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 4,
- [Jesus Christ is A.L.I.V.E!](https://cerebralfaith.net/jesus-christ-is-a-l-i-v-e/) - Introduction: In this essay, I will present a somewhat different structured way of defending the resurrection of Jesus via the Acronym A.L.I.V.E, which I have seen several Christian Apologists do, such as Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy, Erik Manning of Testify, and even Timothy McGrew, all of whom I am indebted to for learning about
- [I'm Specializing - Here's Why](https://cerebralfaith.net/im-specializing-heres-why/) - For many years at Cerebral Faith, I've pretty much been a Jack Of All Trades. I have written, podcast, and video content on just about every subject in the realm of Christian Apologetics, biblical studies, and theology that one can think of. From the Kalam Cosmological Argument to the Ontological Argument to The Divine Council
- [Defending The Trinity From Luke Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-trinity-from-luke-alone/) - Introduction: Inasmuch as many have sought to write up defenses of the doctrine of The Trinity, maintaining the orthodox and historic Christian position on the nature of God, it seemed good to me also, oh readers of the Cerebral Faith blog, to write up a series defending The Trinity from each of the four gospels,
- [Defending The Trinity From Matthew Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-trinity-from-matthew-alone/) - Introduction: In this blog essay, I will defend The Doctrine Of The Trinity using only passages from the gospel of Matthew. The purpose of this excercize is to show that the doctrine of The Trinity is so abundantly attested in scripture that I can do it even with such strict limitations, as I am typically
- [Defending The Trinity From Mark Alone](https://cerebralfaith.net/defending-the-trinity-from-mark-alone/) - Introduction: In this essay, I will defend the doctrine of The Trinity using only passages from the gospel of Mark. The majority opinion among biblical scholars is that Mark is the earliest gospel written, and many think that Mark does not have a high Christology. My aim in this essay is to show that not
- [Did Mary Think That Jesus Was Crazy?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-mary-think-jesus-was-crazy/) - Alright, so it's been a while since I wrote a blog post that wasn't stylized as a scholarly heavily footnoted essay, but here we are. Tis the season! As I'm writing this, Christmas is only a week away. There are two lit up Christmas trees to my left, and I have a hectic week as
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels – Part 2: The Case For Traditional Authorship](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-2-the-case-for-traditional-authorship/) - According to the prolific New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, “Some books, such as the Gospels… had been written anonymously, only later to be ascribed to certain authors who probably did not write them (apostles and friends of the apostles)." ((Bart Ehrman, Jesus Interrupted (2011), pp. 101-102)) Technically, Ehrman is right that the gospels are "anonymous",
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 4: The External Evidence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-4-the-external-evidence/) - So far in this series, we've looked at a variety of subjects; the textual transmission of the gospels, authorship, and early dating. We saw that the evidence from textual criticism shows that we can have certainty that The New Testament documents we read today were what the original documents said to a certainty of 99.99%
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 6: Even More Internal Evidence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-6-even-more-internal-evidence/) - We've now come to the kind of internal evidence that are my personal favorites to read about and talk about. This evidence is actually pretty old, being defended by pre-20th century apologists like William Paley and J.J Blunt. None of these arguments have been truly refuted, but rather, they have fallen out of fashion. But
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 9: The Resurrection Of Jesus](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-9-the-resurrection-of-jesus/) - The resurrection of Jesus is the most important miracle in the entire Bible. If it can be established that Jesus really rose from the dead, then Christianity is true and you are rational in deciding to pray that Sinner’s prayer, find yourself a church to join, and worship Him. One may wonder why the entirety
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Conclusion](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-conclusion/) - We have now come to the final article in this series. Throughout this series we have seen good evidence that the gospels are historically accurate. We’ve seen a ton of evidence for the trustworthiness of the gospels. In part 1, we looked at the traditional history of the New Testament manuscripts and saw that textual
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 8: Can We Really Believe In Miracles?](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-8-can-we-really-believe-in-miracles/) - This is part 8 in a 9-part series on the case for the historical reliability of the gospels, and as an extension, of the historic Christian truth claims to which the gospels attest. ((Although I suppose it's a 10-part blog post series if you include the introduction post.)) We've seen a ton of evidence for
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 7: What About Contradictions?](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-7-what-about-contradictions/) - So far in this series, I have been making a positive case for the historical trustworthiness of the gospels. However, before we continue, it is important to look at one major issue that always comes up in any conversation or debate regarding the historicity of Jesus' comings and goings. That is the issue of contradictions.
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 5: Some Internal Evidence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-5-some-internal-evidence/) - At this point, we've seen a mounting cumulative case for the reliability of the gospels. The copies we have today are identical to the ones originally written down with 99.99% accuracy, the gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John who were eyewitnesses and close associates of eyewitnesses, the gospels were written down very
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 3: The Dating Of The Gospels](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-3-the-dating-of-the-gospels/) - This is part 3 in a multi-part blog post series making the case for the historical reliability of the gospels (unless, of course, you count the Introduction as the first part, then that would make this part 4, but I digress). The purpose of this blog post series is to show the reader that the
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Part 1: The Reliability Of The Manuscript Transmission](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-part-1-the-reliability-of-the-manuscript-transmission/) - This is part 1 in a series of articles defending the historical reliability of the Gospels (unless you count the Introduction as part 1, of course). Before we even examine whether we can trust what the gospels tell us about the life, teachings, miracles, and especially, the death and resurrection of Jesus, we need to
- [The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels - Introduction](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-the-reliability-of-the-gospels-introduction/) - In his book "God and The Dock", the famous British thinker C.S Lewis once wrote "As a literary historian, I am perfectly convinced that whatever else the gospels are, they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend, and I am quite clear that they are not the same sort of thing."
- [Can God Create A Rock So Heavy That He Cannot Lift It?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-god-create-rock-so-heavy-that-he/) - Many times when talking with non-believers, they will appeal to some sort of one-liner or meme to render their unbelief a more credible position than the reality of an omnipotent God. Nevertheless, although these one-liners seem credible to the untrained mind, they actually don’t work as arguments. The same goes with this riddle, which basically
- [Resolving Christmas Conundrums](https://cerebralfaith.net/resolving-christmas-conundrums/) - Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and has been for as long as I've walked this Earth. As a kid, it was because I got a boatload of toys on Christmas morning that I got to play with as Mom and Dad prepared Christmas dinner for us and the rest of my family. As
- [Why Do Josephus and The Gospels Contradict Each Other About John The Baptist?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-do-josephus-and-gospels-contradic/) - The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus was born in A.D 37. In about A.D 90, he wrote his book "Antiquities Of The Jews" in which he writes a history of the Jewish people. In this work, he mentions several individuals who appear in The New Testament such as Jesus, James', the brother of Jesus, Caiaphas, King
- [The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection PART 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-minimal-facts-case-for-jesus/) - This blog post was originally written on May 3rd 2015. It was revised and expanded on Agust 30th 2019. Think of this as like the equivalent of the second edition of a book. If Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be God, and then he died on the cross and rose from the dead, then that
- [The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection PART 2](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-minimal-facts-case-for-jesus_4/) - This blog post was originally posted on May 4th 2015. It was revised and expanded on August 30th 2019. Consider this as like the second edition of a book.In the previous blog post, we saw that powerful historical evidence exists for the following 5 facts:1: Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.2: His tomb was found empty
- [Debate With Nathan Reese On The Resurrection: My Thoughts Afterwards](https://cerebralfaith.net/debate-with-nathan-reese-on/) - On May 2nd, I debated Nathan J Reese on Richard Bushey’s pod cast called the Therefore God Exists Podcast named after his website ThereforeGodExists.com and Facebook group “Therefore God Exists (theology”). The topic was on the resurrection. By the way, if you have not watched the debate, please click here. I’d prefer you watch the debate before
- [Why Didn’t Jesus Appear To Pilate and The Pharisees?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-didnt-jesus-appear-to-pilate-and/) - It’s a common question skeptics of the resurrection ask. They ask that if Jesus really rose from the dead, then why didn’t he appear to Pontius Pilate, the Pharisees, and all who doubted him? Surely He would have done this for scripture teaches that God wants all people to be saved (2 Peter 3:9, 1
- [Addressing An Objection To The Jerusalem Factor Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-objection-to-jerusale/) - The Jerusalem Factor is one of the 3 arguments for Jesus’ empty tomb that I give in “The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection PART 1” and in chapter 8 of my book Inference To The One True God. The argument is that if Jesus’ body still lay in the tomb, belief in His resurrection
- [A Quick Case For Jesus' Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-quick-case-for-jesus-resurrection/) - I've always struggled with brevity some of my apologetic presentations. The trick is to keep it a decent length while simultaneously not skimming on important facts. A handful of my blog posts are kind of long due to my struggle, but fortunately, the vast majority of them are at a length you would want a
- [Does The Minimal Facts Approach Dishonor God's Word?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-minimal-facts-approach-dishonor/) - The Minimal Facts Approach is an approach to establishing the truth of Jesus' resurrection using two criteria; (1) they must be facts that have a lot of evidence in their favor, and (2) these facts must be universally or nearly universally agreed upon by scholars and historians who study the subject, even the skeptical ones.
- [Did Long Distance Make Paul's Witness List Unfalsifiable?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-long-distance-make-pauls-witness/) - In chapter 8 of my book Inference To The One True God, in my blog post "The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus' Resurrection PART 1" and in my blog post "A Quick Case For Jesus' Resurrection", I make the case that we know many people had experiences of the risen Jesus appearing to them because
- [Why Paul Didn't Merely See A "Vision"](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-paul-didnt-merely-see-vision/) - In chapter 8 of my book Inference To The One True God, in my blog post “The Minimal Facts Case For Jesus’ Resurrection PART 1” and in my blog post “A Quick Case For Jesus’ Resurrection”, I list 5 facts which undergird an inference to the resurrection of Jesus being raised from the dead. These
- [A Conversation On Whether The Case For Jesus' Resurrection Is Good Enough](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-conversation-on-whether-case-for/) - Recently, I got a direct message on the Cerebral Faith Facebook page by someone claiming that I failed to establish the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. The person wasn't an unbeliever, surprising. He was a Christian and did affirm the resurrection. He just didn't think I succeeded in making a case for it. The following is the
- [A Quick Case For Jesus' Divine Self-Understanding](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-quick-case-for-jesus-divine-self/) - As Christian Apologists, it's important we learn to play the accordion. What I mean by that is that we need to learn when to go in-depth in explaining the arguments and evidence for Christianity and when to compress our case into a presentation of 5 minutes or less. Just as you expand and contract when playing the
- [Why I Favor The Minimal Facts Approach Over The Maximalist One](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-favor-the-minimal-facts-approach-over-the-maximalist-one/) - The Minimal Facts Argument is an argument for the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth’s resurrection from the dead. It is championed by Drs. Gary Habermas and Michael Licona; two New Testament scholars. Licona wrote his dissertation on this argument and that book became “The Resurrection Of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach”, but Dr. Licona and
- [My Defend Talk "Making The Maximal Data Argument For Jesus' Resurrection Attractive"](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-defend-talk-making-the-maximal-data-argument-for-jesus-resurrection-attractive/) - On January 2 2024 I gave my first ever talk at a Christian Apologetics conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The name of the talk was titled "Making The Maximal Data Argument For Jesus' Resurrection Attractive". I recounted the entire trip in a blog post here. It took a while, but The Defend talks
- [Gemini AI Comments On The Framework View Of Genesis 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/gemini-ai-comments-on-the-framework-view-of-genesis-1/) - In preparation for another blog post I'm working on, I decided to find out just how probable or improbable it would be for Days 1-3 and Days 3-6 of Genesis 1 to correspond to each other in the neat way that adherents of The Framework Hypothesis point out. I went to Gemini AI, an AI
- [E-Books Galore! Off To The Kindle Store!](https://cerebralfaith.net/e-books-galore-off-to-the-kindle-store/) - So, I have been hard at work. HARD at work, working on a project to make e-books out of all, or at least most of my blog posts. I initially wanted them to be completely, 100% free because they are already available for free here on the Cerebral Faith blog. Unfortunately, Kindle Direct Publishing won't
- [A Hiatus, Spiritual Warfair, and A Future Podcast](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-hiatus-spiritual-warfair-and-a-future-podcast/) - Introduction - What's Been Going On 2022 to the present has been an extremely painful time for me. I have experienced a lot of loss, pain, and changes to my life, and this has affected the extent to which I can create content for the public. In 2022, I made the decision that I would
- [Should We Let Science Influence Our Doctrine Of Creation?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-we-let-science-influence-our/) - Science is an amazing thing! It's enabled us to transcend so many of our previously existing barriers, from being able to walk on the moon to being able to carry on a live conversation with someone on the opposite side of the planet, from helping us know what makes fevers run hot to knowing what
- [Why Did God Write A Book?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-did-god-write-book/) - Why did God write a book? By that, I mean why did God inspire authors to write documents which make up a compilation we call The Holy Bible? What were God's purposes in doing that? Obviously, He had reasons of some sort. All authors write books for reasons. For example, when I sat down to
- [Finding Meaning In Your Work](https://cerebralfaith.net/finding-meaning-in-your-work/) - I've been doing a lot of study on the book of Proverbs lately. I've been reading written sermons, commentaries, devotionals, and pretty much anything related to the book of Proverbs I could get my hands on. Some of Tremper Longman III's stuff has been the best material on this, though I also quite like Ryan
- [Did Jesus Contradict The Father In Matthew 5?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-jesus-contradict-father-in-matthew-5/) - In the sermon on the mount, Jesus said "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your
- [My Defend 2024 Trip](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-defend-2024-trip/) - Back in May of 2023, Nick Peters of Deeper Waters ministries asked me if I would attend Defend 2024; a Christian Apologetics conference held at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I said that I would, that it sounded like fun, so I began saving up. On January 1st, I left my home in Piedmont South
- [Announcement: Defend 2024](https://cerebralfaith.net/announcement-defend-2024/) - This is an announcement post, so I hope my patrons over at www.patreon.com/cerebralfaith forgive me for not making it an early access blog post. On January 2nd 2024, I will be speaking at the Defend conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary . My topic will be “Making The Maximal Data Argument More Attractive” and
- [My Experience At “Truth For A New Generation 2015”](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-experience-at-truth-for-new/) - A few days ago, I attended the Truth For A New Generation conference in Spartanburg South Carolina. This was (I think) the 4th apologetics conference I’ve ever attended. I had a really good time and listened to some great speakers. The first day and the second day were both equally enjoyable. The Benham Brothers told
- [The Christian Apologetics Support Group Get Together](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-christian-apologetics-support-group/) - A Facebook group called the Christian Apologetics Support Group arranged an event in Georgia U.S.A to take place on August 14th 2016, with William Lane Craig. People were to drive or fly in from all over the country to have a special lunch and Q and A session with Dr. William Lane Craig after his
- [My NCCA 2017 Experience](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-ncca-2017-experience/) - The National Conference On Christian Apologetics (NCCA) is the largest conference on Christian Apologetics in the country. I've said before that it is like The Comic-Con of apologetics conferences. In fact, in 2011, a whole year before this blog's launch, my first apologetics conference was the NCCA. Unfortunately, due to finances, I haven't been able
- [My 2018 ETS Conference Experience](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-2018-ets-conference-experience/) - So, in Denver, Colorado, there was held the 70th Annual Evangelical Theological Society Conference (or ETS Conference for short). This is the first ETS conference I have ever attended. I was able to attend this conference thanks to the unbelievable generosity of my friend David Parrish who paid for all of my expenses except for
- [Do Christians Commit The No True Scotsman Fallacy?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-christians-commit-no-true-scotsman/) - Many atheists believe that religion of all kinds are detrimental to society. They believe that the majority of human ills stem from religion. Richard Dawkins is one of these atheists that believe this. This is a pretty foolish claim, for it ignores the beneficial effects that Christianity in particular has produced over the centuries; hospitals,
- [5 Bible Passages That Argue Against Determinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-bible-passages-that-argue-agains/) - UUnlike Arminians and Molinists, Calvinists believe in what is called “Divine Determinism”. What this view says is that God controls literally everything that happens in the universe. Nothing happens in the course of the universe’s history that God did not cause to occur.In this blog post, I will be arguing against determinism strictly from the
- [Why Did Jesus Cry Out “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me!?”](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-did-jesus-cry-out-my-god-my-god-why/) - When Jesus was hanging on the cross and was about to breathe His last breath, He looked up to the sky and cried out “My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me!?” (see Matthew 27:45-46). This is a really odd statement for Jesus to make. And I don’t care who you are, if this
- [3 Theological Facts We Can Learn From The Thief On The Cross](https://cerebralfaith.net/3-theological-facts-we-can-learn-fro/) - Image by Paula Gnash Glitner. Retrieved from FreeBibleImages.org. . In Luke 23:39-43, Luke’s account of Jesus’ crucifixion, we see that next to Jesus on the cross are two thieves. One thief ridicules him along with the rest of the unbelieving crowd, but the other thief actually believes Jesus’ claims about Himself (He’s the son of
- [What Happens To People Who Commit Suicide?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-happens-to-people-who-commi/) - There isn’t a single verse that says those who commit suicide make it to Heaven. On the other hand, there isn't a single verse that explicitly states suicide is a one way ticket to Hell either. The argument that suicide = automatic damnation is that suicide is murder (in this case of one's self) murder
- [Aren't Christians Just A Bunch Of Hypocrites?](https://cerebralfaith.net/arent-christians-just-bunch-of/) - One charge that has been lodged at Christians over the years is that we’re all just a bunch of hypocrites. We don’t practice what we preach. We preach love and mercy, but scorn those with different ideas or views. Some people refuse to become Christians because of that. Some people even refuse to go to
- [Does John 20:29 Teach That We Should Have Blind Faith?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-john-2029-teach-that-we-should/) - I wrote a blog post a while back titled “Biblical Faith VS.Blind Faith”. The point I was making was explicit in the very title; Biblical faith is not a blind faith. It really isn't. Biblical Faith is a faith based on solid evidence and good reason. I have evidence that God exists, that Jesus rose from the dead,
- [How Did People Get Saved Before Jesus Came?](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-did-people-get-saved-before-jesus/) - As a kid, this was one of the unanswered questions that pestered me whenever I watched Bible movies around Christmas and Easter time. In the New Testament, we’re told that Jesus is the only way to Heaven (John 14:6, Acts 4:12). But Jesus didn’t come until the first century A.D. Doesn’t that mean that for thousands
- [Does Repetitive Sin Mean We Aren't Saved?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-repetitive-sin-mean-we-arent-saved/) - Some Christians struggle with a sin, perhaps masturbation addiction, alcohol addiction, a bad cursing habit, or what have you, and they worry whether or not they’re actually saved because they keep doing this sin over and over and over and over. They try not to do it, they really try, but no matter how hard
- [On Talking Snakes and Donkeys](https://cerebralfaith.net/on-talking-snakes-and-donkeys/) - One criticism that's become extremely common from atheists is the mention of talking animals in The Bible, specifically the snake in the garden of Eden and Balaam's donkey. In fact, on Facebook pages and in forums, I've heard this complaint so much it's coming out my ears! Their point is that we never see animals
- [Does James 1:13 Contradict Jesus' Deity?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-james-113-contradict-jesus-deity/) - A Christadelphian (a heretical religious group that disbelieves in the deity of Christ) argued against the deity of Christ to me, when we debated about a year ago, using a Bible verse from James 1:13. A friend of mine debated a Muslim recently in a Facebook group and that Muslim used James 1:13 as well,
- [The Incompatibility Of Compatiblism](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-incompatibility-of-compatiblis/) - Compatiblist freedom isn't freedom at all. The compatiblist will say "You're free because you do whatever you want to do" but the fact is, you can't control your wants. Your desires have been programmed into you by God at least on the Calvinist (or hypercalvinist) version of compatiblism. Atheism ascribes the determining to natural cause
- [My Thoughts On Christians and Tattoos.](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-thoughts-on-christians-and-tattoos/) - I’m personally on the fence about this. I’ve seen Christians try to argue against Tattoos by appealing to a verse in Leviticus that forbids it. Well, I’m sorry, but we haven’t been bound by Leviticus since Jesus rose from the dead. Leviticus is a bunch of prohibitions and rituals thatapplied to Jews under the
- [Biblical Faith VS. Blind Faith](https://cerebralfaith.net/biblical-faith-vs-blind-fai/) - Many Christians when asked by unbelievers why they should believe anything The Bible says, the most common response is “Just have faith!”. And this “just have faith” line is pretty much the answer to every single objection one could possibly raise against the Christian Far too often people are turned away because of intellectual doubts
- [Did Adam And Eve Have Moral Knowledge Prior To The Fall?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-adam-and-eve-have-moral-knowledge/) - There’s an objection from internet atheists that God was not fair to Adam and Eve because He punished them by casting them out of the garden for eating the fruit from the tree that He had forbidden them to eat from. They say that Adam and Eve couldn’t have known it was wrong to eat
- [A Critique Of “Do We Have Free Will To Choose Salvation” by Richard Bushey](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-critique-of-do-we-have-free-will-to/) - Richard Bushey, the author of the blog ThereforeGodExists.com posted an article that I almost completely disagreed with (which is surprising because I usually agree with things that he writes). He wrote an article criticizing free will, and the ability to either choose or reject God. In Richard's recent article, he writes some pretty bad arguments against synergism. You
- [5 Reasons To Believe That Modalism Is False](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-reasons-to-believe-that-modalism-is/) - Modalism is a heresy that some people have fallen into, like the Oneness Pentecostals, for example. Modalism is the view that there really aren’t 3 persons of the Trinity, but just 1 person of The Trinity who goes through different “modes” of existence. Just as a man can be a father, a son, and an
- [What Are Sins Of Omisson?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-are-sins-of-omisson/) - Sins of omission are when you know you should do something and then you don’t do it. A sin of omission is a sin you become accountable for when you should have performed a certain action but chose not to. Are sins of omission a real thing? Are they taught in The Bible? What is
- [Q and A: Is Worship Of Jesus Idolatry?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-is-worship-of-jesus-idolatry/) - Question of the week: is worshiping Jesus akin to pagan idolatry since he was truly a man? -- Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wouldn't necessarily be idol worship. While it's true that Jesus was truly a man, it is also true that Jesus was God. The Bible teaches that Jesus is God in various places. For example,
- [Q & A: Does The Story of Abraham and Isaac Support Human Sacrifice?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-does-story-of-abraham-and-isaac/) - This image is by Oleg Volodin and is the copyright of Wycliff Russia. It is licensed to FreeBibleImages.org for personal and teaching use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. . Question of the week: does the story of Abraham and Isaac support human sacrifice? -- Richard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- [Q and A: Is Jesus Not Coming Back?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-is-jesus-not-coming-back/) - Question of the week. It's been 2000 years and Jesus still has not come back. Doesn't that suggest that he isn't coming? -- Richard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard's question echos a very common objection to Christianity that skeptics throw up to Christians in religious debates. Jesus' long time in coming back is one of many things skeptics
- [How Repentance Actually Works](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-repentance-actually-works/) - Every now and then, I’ll come across a meme on my Facebook feed by some Non-Christian mocking Christianity, saying something like “Wow. I can do any evil I want, and all I have to do to still make it into Heaven is ask for forgiveness?” These unbelievers think that Christian theology leads to a life
- [5 Mistakes Christian Apologists Sometimes Make](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-mistakes-christian-apologists/) - Christian Apologetics is an importance discipline. It is obeying the command of 1 Peter 3:15 to "Always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that you have..." and moreover, many people have intellectual doubts that serve as real barriers for them to embrace the gospel.
- [Does 1 Corinthians 15:39 Rule Out Evolution?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-1-corinthians-1539-rule-ou/) - Back when I was first learning Christian Apologetics, I would download free MP3 audio files to my MP3 player from Apologetics315.com which is the website run by Brian Auten. I listened to a bunch of lectures from several different apologists on several different subjects. One of these was about evolution by Dr. Phil Fernandes; the
- [Should We Rejoice In Persecution?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-we-rejoice-in-persecution/) - Artwork by Paula Nash Glitner. Retrieved from FreeBibleImages.org. Recently, I posted a link to an article about the recent shut down of the Sweet Cakes Bakery on Todd Starnes' website. I expressed my anger about the crap that the LGBT continues to pull. Someone commented on this post saying "Persecution should be something you rejoice
- [What Would Aliens Mean For The Christian Worldview?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-would-aliens-mean-for-christian/) - Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE science fiction. When I was a child, I fantasized about time traveling and space traveling, meeting my future or past self, or meeting with beings on a far away planet. There isn't much science fiction I don't enjoy. If I'm not a fan of it, it's most
- [10 Christian Apologists On The Importance Of Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/10-christian-apologists-on-importance/) - Christian Apologetics is the art of defending the Christian faith against intellectual attacks from non-Christians as well as showing it is true through rational argumentation and evidence. Christian Apologetics establishes that Christianity is true through evidence and reason while responding to objections against it as well. The term “apologetics” comes from the Greek word apologia
- [GUEST POST: How Is Arminianism Different From Pelagianism?](https://cerebralfaith.net/guest-post-how-is-arminianism-differen/) - Introduction When asked the difference between Arminianism and Pelagianism, I always have trouble knowing exactly where to start. It is a bit like being asked about the difference between Republicanism and Monarchy: the simple answer being "Everything!"1 However, for some reason, we Arminians still get asked this a lot. So here is, what I hope
- [Addressing Calvinist Responses To 2 Peter 3:9](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-calvinist-responses-to-2/) - One of the most popular passages stating God's universal salvific will (i.e that God desires every human individual to be saved) is 2 Peter 3:9. 2 Peter 3:9 states that God "is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance". Indeed, The Society Of Evangelical Arminians even has "Not willing
- [A Maximally Great Argument Against Calvinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-maximally-great-argument-for/) - Does God love all people? Does He desire that all people be saved? Did He die on the cross to atone for the sins of all people? I would answer "Yes" to all of the above. But unfortunately, there are many Christians who would say "No" to all of the above. These Christians call themselves
- [The Cerebral Faith Podcast Going Forward](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-cerebral-faith-podcast-going-forward/) - I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've made a decision. I'm going to go back to only do the podcast in audio format, pre-recorded. I made a list of all the pros and cons, and the pros just vastly outnumber the cons. For one thing, I won't have to go through all the
- [Is The Fine Tuning Argument Presumptuous?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-fine-tuning-argument-presumptuous/) - Recently, an objection to The Fine Tuning Argument for God’s existence has caught my attention. If you don’t know what the fine tuning argument is, if you have no idea what I’m talking about, if this is your first time visiting Cerebral Faith, then you should go read my article “The Fine Tuning Argument For God’s
- [Fine Tuning And Specified Complexity](https://cerebralfaith.net/fine-tuning-and-specified-complexity/) - Some people object to The Fine Tuning argument because they say that just because it’s extremely improbable does not warrant the conclusion that the universes various constants and quantities were designed to take those values. If you haven’t heard of The Fine Tuning Argument before and have no idea what I’m talking about, go read
- [3 Problems With Christian Physicalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/3-problems-with-christian-physicalis/) - Surprisingly, there are Christians who deny the existence of the soul. That may come as a shock to you (I know it was to me) but they’re really out there. They are a tiny minority of course, but they do exist. These people are called “Christian Physicalists”. They believe that people and animals are purely
- [The Identity Argument For The Soul](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-identity-argument-for-sou/) - C.S Lewis once wrote “You don’t have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body“.1 Most Christians believe that we are not merely physical bodies, but that we are immaterial entities that live inside our bodies. We are embodied spirits. This view is known as Substance Dualism. The Bible very clearly teaches substance dualism
- [Cerebral Faith Blog Series You Should Read](https://cerebralfaith.net/cerebral-faith-blog-series-you-should-read/) - When I want to go really, really in depth on a given topic; I do one of two things; (1) I write a series of blog posts instead of just one, or (2) I write a book. Sometimes I do both, writing the latter and adding even more detail than the former, with the book
- [Does Evolution Leave God Out Of A Job?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-evolution-leave-god-out-of-job/) - Many people, both theists and atheists alike, see Darwinian evolution as a God substitute. If evolution is true, then God is not needed to explain why life emerged on this planet. God becomes superfluous. Many atheists go so far as to argue that Darwinian Evolution disproves the existence of God or at the very least
- [If God Created The Universe, Who Created God?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-god-created-universe-who-created-god/) - This is a question that many, many atheists have asked Christians whenever Christians try to argue for God as Creator and Designer of the universe (by using, for example, The Kalam Cosmological Argument, or The Fine Tuning Argument). Once the argument for creation is over, the atheist will retort “Oh yeah? Well, if God made the universe,
- [Does The Multi-Verse Explain Away The Need For A Creator?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-multi-verse-explain-away-need-for/) - The Vacuum Fluctuation Model says that there is a mother vacuum, which is a “womb” in which “baby universes” pop into existence from a larger mother universe. The mother universe sort of gives birth to much smaller universes. This is a version of the multi-verse theory. The mother universe is a changeless and eternally existing
- [The Kalam Cosmological Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-kalam-cosmological-argumen/) - This blog post was originally posted on August 24th 2012. It was revised and expanded on August 30th 2019. Consider This as like the second edition of a book. “There’s no evidence that God exists.” “Science can explain everything without the need to appeal to a God. “Doesn’t science do away with the need for
- [Q&A: Does The Cause Of The Universe Really Have To Be Spaceless, Timeless, and Immaterial?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-does-cause-of-universe-really-have-to/) - Greetings Evan, In your blog post titled “The Kalam Cosmological Argument”, you made the statement: “We can infer logically that the cause must have certain attributes given the nature of the origin of the universe. For example, since the cause brought space into existence, it cannot be spacial. Since in order to be spacial,
- [Q&A: What If We Lived In A Universe Ruled By An Evil God?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-what-if-we-lived-in-universe-ruled-by/) - Evan, I see a gaping hole in the argument from God’s sovereignty in your post, “Answering Two Common Objections To The Author Of Life Argument.” First, let me be clear that I am an atheist, but I won’t be drawing on my personal belief in zero gods to address your argument. Suppose,
- [Answering Two Common Objections To The Author Of Life Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/answering-two-common-objections-to/) - When atheists accuse God of being immoral, they usually point to nasty Old Testament accounts like the conquest of Canaan, God sicking two female bears on a group of youths for harassing Elisha, or destroying humanity in a massive flood (Genesis 6-9). In addition to various other considerations regarding these specific incidences, one factor I
- [Rhetorical Points That Internet Atheists Need To Stop Bringing Up](https://cerebralfaith.net/rhetorical-points-that-interne/) - Recently, I posted a screenshot of an old Tweet by Lee Strobel where he said "To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn't have that much faith." which was just another
- [The Fine Tuning Argument For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-fine-tuning-argument-for-gods/) - This blog post was originally posted on June 23rd 2015. It was revised and expanded on August 30th 2019. Think of this as like the second edition of a book. Over the last 50 years scientists have discovered that the laws and the constants of physics surprisingly conspire in a shocking manner to make the
- [How Can A Christian Apologist Keep From Getting Discouraged?](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-can-christian-apologist-keep-fro/) - When I went into Christian Apologetics, I had two major goals: (1) To use arguments and evidence to clear away intellectual road blocks people have keeping them from embracing the gospel, and (2) to help Christians struggling with their faith to become more confident. My goal was and still is to convince unbelievers and solidify
- [5 Biblical Texts That Calvinists Can't Wiggle Out Of](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-biblical-texts-that-calvinists-can/) - When Calvinists say that Jesus only died for the elect (i.e, those God chose to irresistibly save before the foundations of the world) instead of for every human being, Arminians will frequently counter that teaching with Bible passages like John 3:16 that says "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and
- [3 Reasons Why The “Jesus Never Said Anything About Homosexuality” Argument Fails.](https://cerebralfaith.net/3-reasons-why-jesus-never-said-anything/) - Jimmy Carter has been quoted as saying “Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.” Carter’s statement reflects the thought of many
- [5 Helpful Tips For Christian Apologist Bloggers](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-helpful-tips-for-christian-apologis/) - 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
- [Is Pokemon Of The Devil?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-pokemon-of-devi/) - Pokemon is a video game franchise that began in 1996 in Japan. It has had a hit TV show that is currently on its 19th season, has 20 main series games and even more side games. The main premise of each main series game is that a character is given the choice between 3 Pokemon
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 28: The Masked Man and Conclusion](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-28-masked/) - This is the 28th and final part of The LogicalFallacy Series. In this part, I will wrap up this series by looking at one morelogical fallacy. The Masked Man Fallacy This is a formal fallacy, meaning it commits an error in the form of the argument, not merely the content of the argument as you
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 27: False Dichotomy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-27-false/) - You've either got to read this blog post or play Call of Duty! There is no third alternative! Now, choose! CHOOSE! Okay, if you've made your choice, then welcome to part 27 of this blog post on logical fallacies. We looked at 23 informal fallacies in this series and we've looked at 3 formal fallacies.
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 26: Denying The Antecedent](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-26-denying/) - This is part 26 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies.We've looked at 23 different informal fallacies up until this point. There are many more kinds of informal fallacies than the ones I've talked about in this series, but I haven't really encountered any of them during my debates with atheists, agnostics, or other
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 25: Affirming The Consequent](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-25/) - This is part 25 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies.We've looked at 23 different informal fallacies up until this point. There are many more kinds of informal fallacies than the ones I've talked about in this series, but I haven't really encountered any of them during my debates with atheists, agnostics, or other
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 24: The Fallacy Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-24-fallacy/) - This is part 24 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies.We've looked at 23 different informal fallacies up until this point. There are many more kinds of informal fallacies than the ones I've talked about in this series, but I haven't really encountered any of them during my debates with atheists, agnostics, or other
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 23: Hasty Generalization](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-23-hasty/) - This is part 23 of the series on logical fallacies. So far, I've talked about several different informal fallacies, I'll wrap up this series by looking at formal fallacies; which have to do with mistakes made in the formulation of an argument rather than mistakes made in the content of the argument which informal fallacies
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 22: Argument From Ignorance](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-22-argumen/) - Welcome to part 22 of this series on logical fallacies. By this point, I've decided to not write on every logical fallacy that there is and instead only write about the ones most relevant to Christian Apologetics (i.e fallacies committed by skeptics when you debate them, fallacies made by Christians during in-house debates, etc.). There
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 21: Shifting The Burden Of Proof](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-21-shifting/) - Alrighty, I'm bloggin' for the Almighty. Hold on Sally, see, I'm gonna be writin' about fallacies. Ok. So I am no rapper, but I think I am a pretty good Christian Apologist. Welcome to part 21 of this series on logical fallacies. By this point, I've decided to not write on every logical fallacy that
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 20: Appeal To Ridicule](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-20-appea/) - This is part 19 in a series I’m writing on logical fallacies. I’m nearly done with the informal fallacies and I’m about to move onto talking about formal fallacies. The informal fallacies that I have yet to talk about are: Appeal To Ridicule, Shifting The Burden Of Proof, and Argument From Ignorance. There are actually
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 19: Appeal To Emotion](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-19-appea/) - This is part 19 in a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. I'm nearly done with the informal fallacies and I'm about to move onto talking about formal fallacies. The informal fallacies that I have yet to talk about are: Appeal To Emotion, Appeal To Ridicule, Shifting The Burden Of Proof, and Argument From Ignorance.
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 18: Special Pleading](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-18-specia/) - This is part 18 in a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is when someone makes a mistake in reasoning. Fallacies come in 2 types; formal and informal. So far, we've gone through informal fallacies. I'll address just a few more of them and then I'll move on to formal fallacies. Formal
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 17: Tu Quoque](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-17-tu-quoque/) - This is part 17 in a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is when someone makes a mistake in reasoning. Fallacies come in 2 types; formal and informal. So far, we've gone through informal fallacies. I'll address just a few more of them and then I'll move on to formal fallacies. Formal
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 16: Personal Incredulity](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-16-persona/) - This is part 16 in a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions when walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 15: The Bandwagon Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-15/) - This is part 15 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions when walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 14: The Appeal To Nature Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-14-appea/) - This is part 14 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions when walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 13: The Ad Hoc Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-13-ad-hoc/) - This is part 13 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions when walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 12: Loaded Question](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-12-loaded/) - Hi there! This is part 12 of the series I'm writing on logical fallacies. If you've been following this series, then I don't need to tell you what a logical fallacy is. You already know. However, if you just now started this series or are new to Cerebral Faith, or if you've never studied logic
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 11: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-11-post-hoc/) - Hello again, now it is time for part 10 of this series. I'm kidding! This is obviously part 11. 11 is the number that comes after 10! But enough of that. I'm not here to teach you how to count! I'm here to teach you how to avoid bad reasoning. Logical fallacies are mistakes in
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 10: Begging The Question](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-10-begging/) - This is part 10 of a series I'm writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is when a mistake is made in reasoning and argumentation. Fallacies come in 2 types; formal and informal. A formal fallacy is when a logical mistake is made in the form of an argument; that is to say; when it
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 9: Anecdotal Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-9-anecdota/) - This is part 9 on a series I’m writing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is when a mistake is made in reasoning and argumentation. Fallacies come in 2 types; formal and informal. A formal fallacy is when a logical mistake is made in the form of an argument; that is to say; when it
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 8: Argument From Silence](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-8-argumen/) - This is part 8 in a series on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning and argumentation. Fallacies come in two types; formal and informal. Formal fallacies are made with the form of an argument is invalid; that is to say, when it doesn't follow any of the 9 rules of logic.
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 7: The Fallacy Of Composition](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-7-fallacy/) - This is part 7 in a series I'm doing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. In part 1 I explain the difference between two different kinds of logical fallacies; formal and informal. So far, I have talked about 6 of the informal kind. Last time I talked about the Poisoning
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 6: Poisoning The Well](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-6-poisoning/) - This is part 6 in a series on logical fallacies that I’m doing. A logical fallacy is a mistake made in the process of reasoning and argument formulation. Fallacies come in 2 types; formal and informal. Formal fallacies are made in the logical form of an argument. They’re made when the argument doesn’t follow any
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 5: Red Herring](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-5-red/) - This is part 5 of my series on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions while walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies can come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a fallacy
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 4: The Genetic Fallacy](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-4-genetic/) - This is part 4 in a series I'm doing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions while walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies can come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 3: The Straw Man](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-3-straw-man/) - This is part 3 of the series I’m doing on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions while walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies can come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 1: Introduction and Ad Hominem](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-1/) - This is the first part in an ongoing series on logical fallacies. In this series of blog posts, I will be addressing all of the different logical fallacies people often make when reasoning. I plan on naming the logical fallacy, describing the fallacy, and finally giving some examples of when the fallacy is committed. Since
- [Logical Fallacy Series -- Part 2: Equivocation](https://cerebralfaith.net/logical-fallacy-series-part-2/) - This is the second part of the series on logical fallacies. A logical fallacy is a mistake in reasoning. Just as someone can stumble on occasions while walking, so one can stumble on occasions when thinking. Logical fallacies can come in two forms; formal and informal. Formal fallacies, as the name suggests, is when a
- [The Transcendental Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-transcendental-argumen/) - The Trancendental Argument is an argument often used by presuppositionalists to argue for the existence of God and the philosophical bankruptcy of atheism. The argument is that if atheism is true, we would not be able to trust our reasoning faculties in leading us to truth, but since we obviously can trust our reasoning faculties,
- [Is "Hate The Sin, Love The Sinner" Biblical?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-hate-sin-love-sinner-biblica/) - Often times Christians will say that we should "hate the sin, but love the sinner" and that God Himself hates the sins of humanity, but loves all sinners. For some reason or other, some people have taken issue with this saying though for different reasons. Some argue that it's not a biblical saying because it
- [If Evil Isn't A Substance, How Can People Inherit An Sin Nature?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-evil-isnt-substance-how-can-people/) - So, on a couple of occasions, I've had encounters with Pelagians who argued that people could not inherit the sinful nature from Adam because evil is not a positive substance. It's not a thing. And if it's not a thing, then it can't be passed on from generation to generation like diabetes or hair color.
- [Does "According To Their Kinds" Rule Out Evolution?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-according-to-their-kinds-rule-ou/) - One common argument creationists give against the concept of Evolutionary Creationism (i.e the view that God used evolution to bring about life) is that Genesis is replete with the phrase "according to their kinds". Whenever God would bring a type of creature into being in the Old Testament, He would say "let them reproduce according
- [Will We Be Able To Sin In Heaven?](https://cerebralfaith.net/will-we-be-able-to-sin-in-heaven/) - In various places on this site, I've argued that God gave man free will because He wanted us to love Him and to love each other, and genuine love for God and genuine love for man is only possible if there's free will. For love to be true love, there has to be the option
- [Objections To Concordism NOT Answered](https://cerebralfaith.net/objections-to-concordism-not-answered/) - As many of you may know, I recently came out and announced on the official Facebook and Twitter accounts of this blog that I no longer believe concordism is a legitimate view of scripture, and I even criticized it in part 3 of my recent blog post series on biblical hermenuetics. Even more recently, I
- [Does God Love Everyone?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-god-love-everyone/) - "Does God Love Everyone"? I feel quite saddened at the fact that this question requires an answer, much less a defense. Anyone who reads The Bible should be able to answer this question in the affirmative. The answer is a resounding YES! God does love everyone. A person whom God hates is as real as
- [The Importance Of Distinguishing A View From Its Entailments](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-importance-of-distinguishing-view/) - One of the trends I find in talking with people on certain subjects is this inability to separate a viewpoint from the view's logical entailment. This is an impediment to discourse because it can lead to misunderstandings, confusion, and in the worst scenarios, severed friendships. I'd like to go into just a little bit of
- [Is God Beyond Logic?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-god-beyond-logic/) - Is God beyond logic? Some Christians think he is and any suggestion that He isn't is bound to be met with scorn or "rebukes". They say "God is wholly other". Some fideists (i.e people who argue that what The Bible means by "faith" is "blind faith") often make arguments for God's "wholly otherness" to render
- [If Science Can Be Done, Then God Exists](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-science-can-be-done-then-god-exists/) - In my book Inference To The One True God, and in my blog posts "The Kalam Cosmological Argument," "The Fine Tuning Argument For God's Existence ", and in "The Fine Tuning Of The Earth and Universe", I show how science points to God via the origin of the universe and the fine tuning of the universe.
- [My Thoughts On Nabeel Qureshi's Passing](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-thoughts-on-nabeel-qureshis-passing/) - Just a few hours ago, I found out that Nabeel Qureshi had passed away. Qureshi was a convert to Christianity out of Islam and has written 3 books, "Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus", "No God But One: Allah Or Jesus", and "Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward". My friend Richard Bushey gave me a copy of
- [5 Reasons Why I'm A Kindle Guy Now](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-reasons-why-im-kindle-guy-now/) - For most of my life, I've always preferred physical books over e-books. Having an impressive library of books all aligned on shelves, the smell of the books, the ability to have authors sign them if and when I meet them, and the fact that they're composed of atoms instead of 0s and 1s were all
- [Q and A: Some Clarity On God's Relationship To Logic](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-some-clarity-on-gods-relationship/) - Hello, I recently met your blog through a survey of mine. I liked your blog, I found it interesting in what it presented. In this publication here I had liked it a lot, although I have visible doubts http://cerebralfaith.blogspot.com.br/2017/04/is-god-beyond-logic.html?m=1
- [The Image Of God, Mental Faculties, And The Sanctity Of Life](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-image-of-god-mental-faculties-and/) - Genesis 1 teaches that human beings are created in God's image, in His likeness. Much debate and speculation over the years have occurred over what exactly that means. It obviously cannot mean that we look like God if for no other reason than that everyone looks different. In my blog post "What Does It Mean
- [Q&A: Acts 17:26 and Adam](https://cerebralfaith.net/acts-1726-and-ada/) - Hi, I have a quick question: If Adam and Eve were not the first humans, how should we interpret Paul in Acts 17:26 when he says that through one Man God made all the nations of humanity? Thanks! Blessings, Aidan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good question, Aiden! Aiden here is referring to my Evolutionary Creationist view that Adam
- [Q&A: Matthew 11:21-24, Middle Knowledge, and The Age Of Accountability](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-matthew-1121-24-middle-knowledge-and/) - Hello Evan, I am a Molinist, but I’m not sure yet if I should take Matthew 11:21-24 as a case of Jesus having middle knowledge. If I do come to accept that view, it could potentially cause some other problems. For example, Dr. Craig has said that when a small child is killed or a
- [Does Isaiah 53 Refer To The Messiah, Israel, or Someone Else?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-isaiah-53-refer-to-messiah-israe/) - "Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 10: Conclusion](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_2/) - If you’ve taken the time to read through this entire series, I commend you. The resurrection of Jesus is the most important event in human history. If it occurred, the Christian worldview is true. If it did not occur, then we need to search for worldview truth elsewhere. However, we saw throughout the last 9
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 9: Probabilities and Plagarism](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection/) - This is part 9 in a blog post series on the historical evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. In parts 3, 4, 5, and 6, we’ve seen powerful historical evidence that (1) Jesus died by Roman crucifixion, that (2) His tomb was found empty the following Sunday morning, that (3) the twelve disciples believed they saw Jesus
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 8: Some Unanswered Questions](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_31/) - This is part 8 in a blog post series on the historical evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. In parts 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this series, we’ve seen powerful historical evidence that (1) Jesus died by Roman crucifixion, that (2) His tomb was found empty the following Sunday morning, that (3) the twelve disciples believed
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 7: Reasoning To The Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_30/) - This is part 6 in a blog post series (and eventually, book) on the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection. In parts 3, 4, 5, and 6 we saw that powerful historical evidence exists for the following 5 facts1: Jesus died by Roman crucifixion.2: His tomb was found empty by a group of His women followers the
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 6: Facts (4) and (5) The Postmortem Appearances To Paul and James](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_29/) - This is part 6 in a blog post series on the evidence for the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection. The Minimal Facts Case for the resurrection of Jesus is what I’ve been defending the past 5 articles, and in part 2, I explained what a minimal facts approach is. Part of a minimal facts approach is
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection - Part 5: Fact (3) - The Postmortem Appearances To The Disciples](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_28/) - This is part 5 in a series of blog posts detailing the wealth of historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. In the last 2 parts of this blog post series, we saw that the evidence that Jesus died by Roman crucifixion is overwhelming to the point that even atheist historians say that it’s an
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection -- Part 4: Fact (2) The Empty Tomb](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_27/) - We saw in the previous blog post that the historical evidence for Jesus’ death was overwhelming. Even several non-Christian scholars affirm it, and even say that it’s the one fact about Jesus that is indisputable. However, what happened to Jesus after He died? The New Testament says that He was placed in a tomb that was
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection -- Part 3: Fact (1) Jesus Died By Crucifixion](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_26/) - In the previous blog post, I explained what the minimal facts approach was, and how it employed standard historical criterion to the New Testament text rather than it being a “Thus sayeth The Lord” approach. The New Testament is used, but only as an ancient set of documents, not as scripture. Additionally, the minimal facts
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection -- Part 2: How To Do History](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection_25/) - In the previous blog post, I talked about how important it was that we affirm that Jesus rose from the dead if He actually did, I warned not to let one’s dislike of Christianity’s implications get in the way of interpreting the evidence, and I warned not to let one’s naturalistic bias (provided the reader
- [The Evidence For Jesus' Resurrection -- Part 1: Why This Matters](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-evidence-for-jesus-resurrection-2/) - Did Jesus really rise from the dead? How can we know? Most people, both Christians, and non-Christians alike, will tell you that if you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, it has to be on either the basis of a religious experience (for example, you were addicted to drugs but prayed to Jesus to
- [What The Raising Of Lazarus Does Not Prove](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-raising-of-lazarus-does-not-prove/) - In John 11, the apostle John records a miraculous event that the synoptic gospels choose to omit. Jesus’ friend Lazarus has gotten sick and is about to die, so He and the apostles are on their way to visit him. Jesus is informed by messengers that Lazarus is ill, and his two sisters are seeking
- [On The Frequency Of Miracles](https://cerebralfaith.net/on-frequency-of-miracles/) - Non-Christians often mock the Christian worldview because it posits that miracles both can and have happened in history. They look at the biblical narrative and see all these miracles seemingly happening all the time, and they ask that if God caused so many miracles to occur in the past, why doesn't He cause them to
- [Does Libertarian Free Will Imply The Ability To Live A Perfect Life?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-libertarian-free-will-imply/) - Monergism Books posted the following on Facebook:Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150964832184949&id=15086969948Just in case the link to Monergism’s Facebook post stops working at some point in the future, I’ll simply quote what they said here:“You think you have a free will? Then demonstrate it: in your own power, stop sinning altogether. The fact that no person can choose to
- [Another Failed Wiggle Attempt: A Second Response To Kevin Courter](https://cerebralfaith.net/another-failed-wiggle-attempt-second/) - This blog post is a response to Kevin Courter's response to my article "5 Biblical Texts That Calvinists Can't Wiggle Out Of". Courter responded to that initial article here, and I responded to his response here. Kevin Courter has taken the time to respond to that article, which you can read here. Passage 1: 1
- [Q&A: Answering Questions Of An Agnostic Brother](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-answering-questions-of-agnostic/) - Hi Evan, I really like your work, really helped me. But I have a brother, he is agnostic, and he has a few objections I can’t answer (it’s so uncomfortable), so I decided to ask you. The first is on skepticism in general. Shouldn’t we be skeptical about anything? Since everything is subjectively perceived? Especially
- [All Wiggled Out?: A Second Response To Tony Lee Ross Jr.](https://cerebralfaith.net/all-wiggled-out-second-response-to-tony/) - Well, as followers of this blog know full well I've been in two blog wars with Kevin Courter and Tony Lee Ross Jr. over my blog post "5 Biblical Texts That Calvinists Can't Wiggle Out Of". Tony Lee Ross Jr. wrote a response to that article here, and then I wrote a response to his
- [Q&A: How Can We Know Which Doctrines Are True?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-how-can-we-know-which-doctrines-are/) - Was just thinking of your recent debates how I have been reading and developing some arguments that are very interesting. I think we as Christians we tend to turn the bible into an idol of sorts. I has become this was nose "virgin Mary" of sorts which can say virtually anything we want it to.
- [Calvinism and Robots: A Rebuttal to John Frame](https://cerebralfaith.net/calvinism-and-robots-rebuttal-to-john/) - The following is a guest post written by Phillip Mast. Source: https://apolojet.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/calvinism-and-robots/ Summary: Joseph Torres with KingdomView blog advises that it is common to hear that through belief in Calvinism humans are relegated to the role of being mere robots. Torres provides comments by John Frame, author of “The Doctrine of God”, as a refutation
- [My Top 5 Books On Evolutionary Creationism](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-top-5-books-on-evolutionary/) - Recently, I announced that I had become an evolutionary creationist (more commonly known as "Theistic Evolutionist). I now believe based on my studies of The Bible and science that God created all of biological life through the process of biological evolution; natural selection acting on random mutation. You can see my announcement posts here and
- [Colossians 2:8 Does Not Condemn Philosophy](https://cerebralfaith.net/colossians-28-does-not-condemn/) - Some well-meaning but very misinformed Christians discourage the study of philosophy on the basis of a verse in Colossians chapter 2. In Colossians 2:8, the apostle Paul wrote: "See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, and
- [The Soteriological Case For Molinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-soteriological-case-for-molinis/) - Abstract: In this paper, I plan on making the case for Molinism from a different perspective in my previous paper “The Case For Mere Molinism” which featured on 3 central pillars which came from The Bible and which only Molinism could best make sense of. In this paper, I will argue that there 6 soteriological facts taught
- [The Case For Mere Molinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-mere-molinis/) - Note: This paper is available to be downloaded in PDF Format. Click Here. Abstract: In this article, I will make a case for the theological system called Molinism, named after the sixteenth century Jesuit Priest Luis De Molina. I will attempt to prove that it’s true by abductive reasoning. I will demonstrate that The Bible teaches
- [An Atheist Moral Objection](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-atheist-moral-objection/) - This is a guest post written by Phillip Mast. To see more articles by Mr. Mast, go to his blog Theist Thug Life by clicking here. As what tends to happen, another objection has been making its way around the internet by skeptics and unbelievers. The meme (as seen below) is making two primary assertions
- [Philosophy Is For Everyone](https://cerebralfaith.net/philosophy-is-for-everyone/) - This is a Guest Post written by Colin Burgess. It is posted here with his permission. “Philosophy is everybody’s business.” – J. Mortimer Adler. Aristotle opened his opus on philosophy, The Metaphysics, with, “All men by nature desire to know.” Nothing could be truer, when one begins to ask the ‘why’ questions, one is taking
- [Q&A: How Do We Know Logic Is Reliable?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-how-do-we-know-logic-is-reliable/) - Greetings. To offer some preliminary remarks: I admit this question isn't very theological, it's much more philosophical, born out curiosity. Nevertheless, I do believe it's an interesting question that deserves some level of reflection, even for Christians. With that being said, here's the question: How do we know our most basic principles of reasoning (the
- [The Two Faced Nature Of The Young Earth Creationist](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-two-faced-nature-of-young-ear/) - I've noticed an unsettling trend among my Christians brothers and sisters who adhere to a young earth view of creationism. It's no secret that this is, without a doubt, the most toxic debate in the church today. I cannot argue for Evolutionary Creationist views without the other side blasting me with the usual slander. "You're elevating
- [On The Passing Of Norman Geisler](https://cerebralfaith.net/on-passing-of-norman-geisler/) - When I logged onto Facebook today, I was saddened to find out that apologist and prolific author Dr. Norman Geisler had passed away at the age of 87. Norman Geisler has been defending Christianity from “the intellectual attacks of the heathen” to use C.S Lewis’ words, for more than 40 years. Among his best and
- [The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis One](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-cosmic-temple-view-of-genesis-one/) - Genesis 1 is perhaps one of the most controversial and hotly debated passages in the entire Bible. There are many different interpretations of this chapter that have been proposed over the centuries, and I don’t pretend to be doing anything different here. However, I have noticed that the majority of attempts to interpret Genesis 1
- [Evaluating Dominic Statham's Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One](https://cerebralfaith.net/evaluating-dominic-stathams-review-of/) - Continuing my blog series on Genesis, I’ll today be evaluating another critic of The Cosmic Temple Inauguration Interpretation of Genesis 1, defended in John Walton’s “The Lost World Of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and The Origins Debate” and also in my blog post “The Cosmic Temple View Of Genesis One”. The article I’ll be responding to in
- [The Moral Argument For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-moral-argument-for-gods-existence/) - This blog post was originally published on January 4th 2014. It was revised and expanded on August 30th 2019. Consider this as like the second edition of a book. The Moral Argument for God’s Existence is an argument that has been around for a long time and has been defended by a variety of Christian thinkers
- [Is Being Rich A Sin?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-being-rich-sin/) - No, no it’s not. As Matt Slick of CARM (Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry) put it in an article on the subject on the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry website "Yes, it is perfectly fine for Christians to become wealthy, and there is nothing in the Bible that forbids Christians from gaining large amounts of money.
- [10 Very Bad Reasons To Have An Abortion: A critique of Eve Vauter.](https://cerebralfaith.net/10-very-bad-reasons-to-have-abortion/) - So, I was scrolling down my Facebook wall when a friend of mine posts this article from a website called "Mommyish.com". The article was about abortion, namely "10 good reasons" to have one, oddly, it used cat pictures to illustrates the points which...I have no idea how the cats were supposed to illustrate the points
- [Do Arminians Believe In A Works-Based Salvation?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-arminians-believe-were-not-saved/) - Calvinists often accuse Arminians of not believing that we are saved by grace because we believe man has the ability to choose between serving Him and serving one’s own sinful desires. Although it’s true that we believe man has a choice between serving God and serving one’s own sinful desires, it is false that Arminian
- [Should Christian Children Hunt Easter Eggs?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-christian-children-hunt-easter/) - Easter Sunday is tomorrow and many children will be engaging in a timeless holiday custom known as Easter Egg hunting. There is concern among some Christian parents that they are sinning when allowing their children to partake in Easter Egg hunts. Their concern stems from the fact that, like most of our major holidays, Easter
- [Should Christians Listen To Rock Music?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-christians-listen-to-rock-music/) - Over the years, I've heard Christians complain about a handful of musical genres, calling them "evil" and "satanic" and "The Devil's Music". The genres they call satanic are rock, metal and rap. But can a musical genre truly be "evil"? And moreover, why would they call a type of music evil to begin with? What's
- [Did God Harden Pharaoh's Heart?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-god-harden-pharaohs-hear/) - What we have in Exodus is this: God says "The Lord said to Moses, “When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go." - Exodus 4:21 But
- [If You Can't Argue Someone Into Faith, Why Debate?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-you-cant-argue-someone-into-fai/) - What is the point of debating someone if giving them arguments won't necessarily change their minds? That's what goes through the minds of many people when it comes to doing apologetics. Sometimes people reject the gospel because they have intellectual barriers to believing in Christ. That's where Christian Apologetics comes in, to tear down those
- [Is Drinking Alcoholic Beverages a Sin?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-drinking-alcoholic-beverages-sin/) - Is Drinking Alcoholic Beverages a Sin? Scripture does not necessarily forbid a Christian from drinking beer, wine, or any other drink containing alcohol. In fact, some Scriptures discuss alcohol in positive terms. Ecclesiastes 9:7 instructs, “Drink your wine with a merry heart.” Amos 9:14 discusses drinking wine from your own vineyard as a sign of God’s blessing.
- [What Does The Bible Say About Reincarnation?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-does-bible-say-about-reincarnation/) - Reincarnation, in case you didn’t know, is the view that people die multiple times and every time someone dies, they come back later in a brand new body. Some people wonder if reincarnation can be compatible or reconciled with the teachings of The Holy Bible. Before we go further, let’s take a look at what
- [What It Will Cost You To Follow Jesus Christ](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-it-will-cost-you-to-follow-jesus/) - I started Cerebral Faith for 3 purposes; 1; to convince unbelievers that Christianity is true. 2; to help believers struggling with doubt. And 3; to equip believers with information so that they will be more effective in witnessing to unbelievers. Let's say that you're someone who's been exploring this site reading various articles I have
- [Do The Resurrection Accounts Contain Contradictions?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-resurrection-accounts-contain/) - Easter’s coming up soon, so I thought I’d discuss a topic that comes up frequently when discussing the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Skeptics frequently charge the gospels with containing contradictory accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection narratives. Not only does this pose problems for biblical inerrancy, but even if you didn’t
- [Why Did God Kill 42 Youths For Making Fun Of Elisha?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-did-god-kill-42-youths-for-making/) - "And Elisha went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in
- [Does Romans 1 Teach That Everyone Already Knows That God Exists?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-romans-1-teach-everyone-already/) - Presuppositionalists will sometimes tell the evidentialist that they're wrong for giving evidence for God's existence to the unbeliever because the unbeliever already knows God exists. They cite Romans 1 as their proof text. What does this passage say? "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people,
- [Does The Bible Need Defending?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-bible-need-defending/) - SSometimes when someone witnesses to an unbeliever by appealing to arguments and evidence that point to the truth of Christianity, some believers will tell the Christian that The Bible does not need them to defend it. “The Truth does not need to be defended. It is like a lion. All you need to do is let
- [Do Christians Hate Gays?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-christians-hate-homosexuals/) - There may be no religious and political issue as emotionally charged as the issue of homosexuality. People generally think that Christians are bigoted, hateful, homophobic, and downright immoral for preaching against homosexuality. The charge that Christians “hate gays” comes around quite frequently. But is that really true? Do Christians hate gays? Does God hate gays?
- [Apologetics With Gentleness and Respect](https://cerebralfaith.net/apologetics-with-gentleness-and-respec/) - In many conversations with atheists that I’ve had on the internet, very often the atheist is hostile, mean, angry. He’s very condescending. He insults my intelligence, and some of the accuse me of being what’s wrong with society (because they drank the “Religion is harmful to society” Kool-Aid). One of them even called me “human
- [Does The Bible Teach That Unicorns Exist?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-bible-teach-that-unicorns-exis/) - In the King James Bible, you’ll find several references to “Unicorns”. Atheists have seized on these references to further ridicule The Bible and dismiss it as myth. The problem with this objection is that The Bible doesn’t mention “Unicorns” at least not unicorns as we commonly think of them (i.e a horn with a horse
- [Does The Bible Teach An Immediate Afterlife Before The Resurrection?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-bible-teach-immediate-afterlife/) - When man dies, does think he goes right to Heaven, or does he go into a soul sleep until the final resurrection, then goes to Heaven? I think The Bible is clear that when Christians die, they go to Heaven as a pure soul/spirit/ghost before the They are resurrected. Some scriptural examples show this is
- [Did James and John ask Jesus, or did their mother ask Him?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-james-and-john-ask-jesus-or-did/) - Contradiction?? Matthew 20:20-21 & Mark 10:35-40 Did James and John's mother ask for James and John to sit on the right and left side of Jesus' throne or did James and John THEMSELVES go and ask if they could sit at His right and left side? It seems that James, John, and the Mother were
- [My Take On The Doctrine Of Original Sin](https://cerebralfaith.net/understanding-what-ter/) - Image by Sweet Publishing / FreeBibleimages.org. Many people (including Christians) think that The Bible teaches that God condemns the entire human race to Hell because of what Adam and Eve did back in the garden. I think this is false. My take on original sin is a bit different than what a lot of Christians
- [Does God Take Pleasure In Punishing Or Not?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-god-take-pleasure-in-punishing-or/) - DDoes God take pleasure in the death of the wicked or not? "Just as the LORD has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the LORD will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy." - Deuteronomy 28:63 How do we
- [Lessening My Workload](https://cerebralfaith.net/lessening-my-workload/) - Cerebral Faith has become very, very, very involved. I’m always trying to think of ways to put out good content on three different formats without working myself to death. Running a blog, a podcast, and a YouTube channel has become almost like a full time job, which is bad because it isn’t a full time
- [Why Evolution Shouldn't Be A Surprise To Christians](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-evolution-shouldnt-be-surprise-to/) - My view on evolution has been evolving over time (pun intended). I initially thought Christianity and evolution were as compatible as the irresistible force and the immovable object, but now I believe they’re entirely compatible. I used to be extremely skeptical of evolution, now, I would say I find it plausible. I went from “How
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Jesus The Eternal Son" by Michael F. Bird](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-jesus-the-eternal-son-by-michael-f-bird/) - A thorough refutation of Adoptionist Christology. Bird makes his case from the ground up, arguing from the presuppositions of non-Christian scholars like Ehrman that the New Testament isn’t inspired. Bird DOES believe The New Testament is inspired, but most New Testament scholars who push adoptionism today do not. Ergo, not many references are made to
- [An Objection To Premise 3 Of The Maximally Great Argument For Arminianism](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-objection-to-premise-3-of-maximally/) - Recently, I posted an argument for Arminianism that combined philosophy and scripture to support its premises called "A Maximally Great Argument For Arminianism". (MGA). The premise got to basic Arminian soteriology from the premise that God is The Greatest Conceivable Being a.k.a A Maximally Great Being. I posted the article in the Molinists group and got pushback
- [Why I'm Going Back To Physical Books](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-im-going-back-to-physical-books/) - Four years ago, I wrote a book called "5 Reasons Why I'm A Kindle Guy Now" and in it, I detailed 5 different reasons for why I preferred electronic books over Kindle books. However, after being a Kindle book reader for 4 years, I'm feeling a longing for the old fashioned paperback and hard copy.
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Chronicles Of The Nephilim" by Brian Godawa](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-chronicles-of-the-nephilim-by-brian-godawa/) - The Chronicles Of The Nephilim are a series of novels, so rather than review one at a time, I thought I would include the reviews to all 8 novels in this one single blog post. None of the reviews are very long, so it makes even more sense to combine them all. These reviews are
- [BOOK REVIEW "Answers To Giant Questions" by T.J. Steadman](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-answers-to-giant-questions-by-t-j-steadman/) - Answers To Giant Question is an excellent work in biblical scholarship. If you’re a theology nerd like me who has a particular interest in the Nephilim or The Bible’s primeval history, you should read this book. In the first section of the book, Steadmann argues that the Nephilim are the giant offspring of angels and
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Out Of Zion: Meeting Jesus In The Shadow Of The Mormon Temple" by Lisa Brockman](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-out-of-zion-merting-jesus-in-the-shadow-of-the-mormon-temple-by-lisa-brockman/) - This book tells the story of a young woman who grew up in the Mormon church a.k.a The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints (often abbreviated LDS). The book is not a primarily an apologetic for orthodox Christianity and against Mormonism. By that it mean, that it’s not a heavily argumentative book with
- [Could The Next Generation Of Big Apologists Be Mainly Evolutionary Creationists?](https://cerebralfaith.net/could-the-next-generation-of-big-apologists-be-mainly-evolutionary-creationists/) - Ravi Zacaharias has recently separated from his body and has gone on to be with The Lord (2 Corinthians 2:1-8). He lived from 1946-2020. His impact in apologetics ministry has been immense, and he has joined his fellow all-star apologists Norman Geisler (passed July 1 2019), Nabeel Qureshi (passed September 16th 2017), and R.C Sproul
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Philosophical Foundations For A Christian Worldview"](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-philosophical-foundations-for-a-christian-worldview/) - “Philosophical Foundations For A Christian Worldview” is no doubt William Lane Craig and J.P Moreland’s magnum opus. This book gives a thorough treatment on a variety of different subjects that one can think of and defends philosophically the crucial tenets of Christian theology; Substance Dualism, The Existence of God, the logical coherence of the doctrine
- [5 Modalists Proof Texts Refuted](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-modalists-proof-texts-refuted/) - Modalism is the heretical view that God, unlike on Trinitarianism, is not 3 persons in 1 divine essence, but is instead 1 person in 1 divine essence, and this 1 person goes through different “modes” (hence the name “modalism”). For example, water can exist in 3 different states; liquid, solid, and ice. These are just
- [5 Objections To Jesus Being God Refuted](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-objections-to-jesus-being-god-refuted/) - Revised on April 23rd 2020 Heretics who deny the deity of Jesus have typically come up with several arguments and objections to try to show that Jesus is not God. They even try to use passages in The Bible to support their point. It’s crucial that we as Christians learn to defend against
- [The Kinds Of Videos You Can Expect Cerebral Faith To Make](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-kinds-of-videos-you-can-expect-cerebral-faith-to-make/) - In my previous blog post, I talked about how YouTube and Podcasts seem to be the future for those who have a message to get out, while the way of the blogger seems to be dying out. I mentioned how, to get a PC optimized for video editing (i.e not crash), I would need some
- [The Future Of Cerebral Faith](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-future-of-cerebral-faith/) - If you’ve followed this ministry long enough, you’ll know it started out as just a small blog on Blogspot back in 2012. For the past decade, I have been passionate about reaching the lost for Christ. Since then, it has grown tremendously. I started out getting 30-40 page views per day, but after many years
- [The Kalam Cosmological Argument NOT Debunked -- A Response To YouTuber Rationality Rules](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-kalam-cosmological-argument-no/) - I discovered a YouTuber called “Rationality Rules” very recently. One of his many videos is “The Kalam Cosmological Argument Debunked – (First Cause Argument Refuted)”. which you can watch here. One of my patrons brought this video to my attention and requested that I respond to it, so here we go. For the uninitiated,
- [Q&A: The Big Bang, The Planck Era, and The Cosmological Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-big-bang-planck-era-and-cosmologica/) - Greetings Evan,In a blog post of yours titled “Is The Big Bang The Origin Of The Universe?”, you stated:“There’s just simply no reason to think that we can’t extrapolate the expansion all the way back to an absolute beginning out of nothing.”Reading this got me thinking, and although I did agree with you, I decided
- [Is The Universe A Computer Simulation?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-universe-computer-simulation/) - Some atheists, in an attempt to avoid the conclusion that The Big Bang origin of our universe was caused by a spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, powerful, supernatural Being (i.e God), have posited that perhaps our universe and everything in it is just a computer simulation being run by aliens in a laboratory. The Big Bang
- [If Actual Infinites Cannot Exist, How Can We Say God Is Infinite?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-actual-infinites-cannot-exist-how/) - In defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument, apologists such as William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, and myself will argue for the second premise (i.e that the universe had a beginning to its existence) by arguing that an actually infinite number of things are impossible. If an actually infinite number of things are impossible, then a
- [How Do The Heavens Declare God's Glory?](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-do-heavens-declare-gods-glory/) - Psalm 19:1-4 says “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their
- [Does The Cosmological Argument Entail A Contradiction?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-cosmological-argument-entai/) - Some atheists have objected to The Kalam Cosmological Argument on the basis that it entails a contradiction. If God existed beyond time, and then He decided to create the universe, and then the universe came into being, this, they argue, is a contradiction. This is because it entails cause and effect, before and after, before
- [Is The Big Bang The Origin Of The Universe?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-big-bang-origin-of-universe/) - More than once, I’ve given The Kalam Cosmological Argument in an online discussion with an atheist, and more than once, he’s rebutted me saying that The Big Bang is not really the origin of the entire universe, but just the origin of its expansion. Recently, in a Facebook post of mine that went viral, an
- [Do We Have Examples Of Things Beginning To Exist?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-we-have-examples-of-things-beginning/) - One rebuttal to The Kalam Cosmological Argument I’ve seen is the argument that the first premise (i.e “whatever begins to exist has a cause”) cannot be confirmed because we have no examples of anything beginning to exist. We only have, they argue, examples of matter being re-arranged into other things. According to some atheists nothing
- [Does The First Law Of Thermodynamics Undermine The Kalam Argument?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-first-law-of-thermodynamics/) - Often times when theists appeal to The Kalam Cosmological Argument to prove the existence of God, often times atheists will appeal to the first law of thermodynamics in an attempt to refute the second premise, that “the universe began to exist”. The first law of thermodynamics states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed,
- [Stephen Hawking’s Objection To The Kalam Cosmological Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/stephen-hawkings-objection-to-kala/) - Stephen Hawking is a brilliant astrophysicist and is also a theoretical physicist and is author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. Among his significant scientific works have been a collaboration with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical
- [Book Review - Friend Of Science, Friend Of Faith](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-friend-of-science-friend-of-faith/) - REVIEW OF “FRIEND OF SCIENCE, FRIEND OF FAITH” by Gregg Davidson. Gregg Davidson is a Christian and Geologist who is a frequent contributor to BioLogos.org. In this book, he makes the case that modern science and Christianity are not in conflict. You do not have to choose between scientific facts about the origins of the
- [What To Expect From Cerebral Faith in 2020](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-to-expect-from-cerebral-faith-in-2020/) - Happy New Year! Today is January 3rd, 2020. It’s the start of a new year and a new decade. Hard to believe, but this August will be the 10th anniversary of my very first exposure to Christian Apologetics. 10 years ago this August, I discovered Lee Strobel’s “The Case For A Creator” movie that someone
- [The Case For Nero Caesar Being The Beast Of Revelation](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-nero-caesar-being-beast-of/) - Note: This paper is available as a downloadable PDF. Click Here. Abstract: The beast mentioned in the book of Revelation has garnered much attention from Christians. Speculation abounds regarding the identity of this evil creature who makes war against God and His saints. Most Christians just assume that whoever The Beast is, he's some future
- [The Case For The Preterist Reading Of Matthew 24](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-case-for-preterist-reading-of/) - Note: This paper is available as a downloadable PDF. Click here. Abstract: The Olivet Discourse given by Jesus in Matthew 24-25 has been the source of much speculation regarding the end times and when Jesus said he would return. In this paper, I will make a case that the things Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24-25
- [GUEST BOOK REVIEW: Escaping The Beginning](https://cerebralfaith.net/guest-book-review-escaping-the-beginning/) - Colin Burgess is the author of this book review. Colin Burgess sent me an e-mail asking if he could post his review of this book here. While I haven’t read this book myself, based on Burgess’ review, it looks like an awesome read, especially since I’m enthusiastic about The Kalam Cosmological Argument. Newcomers to this
- [BOOK REVIEW: The Genealogical Adam and Eve](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-the-genealogical-adam-and-eve/) - In this book, “The Genealogical Adam and Eve: The Surprising Science Of Universal Ancestry”, S. Joshua Swamidass proposes that God could have created Adam and Eve de novo (i.e God literally took a scoop of dust and transformed it into Adam, put Adam to sleep and took a chunk of his side to make Eve)
- [Why Did God Allow Mexican Drug Cartels To Murder This Mormon Family?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-did-god-allow-mexican-drug-cartels-to-murder-this-mormon-family/) - If you’ve either been watching the news at all or if you’ve been scrolling your timeline on Facebook, you are probably aware three moms and six children were gunned down by drug cartel thugs in northern Mexico. As Jane Wharton of Metro.uk reported “Mexico’s top security official Alfonso Durazo blamed drugs gangs for the attack,
- [What Is Romans 9 Really About?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-is-romans-9-really-abou/) - This is a blog post with two authors: Evan Minton and Colin Burgess. We worked on this blog post together in Google Docs prior to uploading it to Cerebral Faith. Romans 9, a passage I once avoided reading as a young Christian. I circled around it thinking to myself, “Things were going so well in the
- [Q&A: Starter Books On The Existence Of God](https://cerebralfaith.net/qa-starter-books-on-the-existence-of-god/) - Hi Evan, I was wondering if you could recommend some starter books that discuss the evidences for the existence of God? – Timothy Absolutely, Timothy! I can think of several good introductory works to the arguements for God’s existence and of Christianity’s truth in general. In this Q&A article, I’ll list my own and then
- [Addressing Arguments Against The Moral Argument's Second Premise](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-arguments-against-mora/) - The Moral Argument For God’s Existence is a common argument that Christian Apologists use in trying to prove that God exists. The Moral Argument takes the form of modus tollens and is therefore a logically valid argument. Therefore, all one has to do to affirm the argument’s conclusion is to show that both of the
- [5 Objections To The Moral Argument’s First Premise](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-objections-to-moral-arguments-firs/) - This blog post was originally posted on July 17th 2015. It was revised and expanded on August 30th 2019. Consider this as like the second edition of a book. The Moral Argument For God’s Existence is a common argument Christian Apologists often make when atheists ask them for a reason to believe that God exists.
- [A Rebuttal To The Philosophical Argument For God's Triune Nature](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-rebuttal-to-philosophical-argumen/) - In my book “Inference To The One True God”, I gave an argument for a while only the God of the Bible can be the God proven to exist by The Moral and Ontological Arguments. The Argument here is that the Moral and Ontological Arguments prove the existence of a being that is morally perfect.
- [Q and A: The Revival Of Euthyphro's Delimma?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-the-revival-of-euthyphros-delimma/) - The usual answer to the Euthyphro Dilemma is that God’s various characteristics or traits are what makes him the paradigm of goodness. God is supposed to be essentially loving, kind, forgiving, etc. But if that’s the case, the Euthyphro Dilemma just reappears. Are those characteristics good because God has them, or does God have them
- [Daleks, Davros, and The Moral Argument For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/daleks-davros-and-moral-argument-for/) - So I’ve been binging episodes of The FreeThinking Podcast which, among other places, can be streamed and downloaded from http://freethinkingministries.com/free-thinking-podcasts/ and a few of those episodes had to do with The Moral Argument for God’s existence. I was binging because I was very far behind. Tim Stratton assessed Eric Wheelinburg’s assertion that objective moral values could
- [Q&A: Chris Hansen's Objections To The Moral Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-chris-hansens-objections-to-mora/) - To whom it may concernHey not sure if Dr. Minton will be who reads this. I know you’re busy so I doubt this email will be chosen as your question of the week. I found an atheist blog and I was hoping you could help me out. I’m having a lot of trouble answering his
- [Solar Eclipses and God](https://cerebralfaith.net/solar-eclipses-and-god/) - A few hours ago, I witnessed one of the most awesome events in my lifetime: A total eclipse of the sun! For two and a half minutes, the moon completely covered the sun. People all over the United States of America had their special sunglasses, cereal box pinhole thingies, or other viewing devices so that
- [5 Facepalm Worthy Objections To The Fine Tuning Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-facepalm-worthy-objections-to-fine/) - The Fine Tuning Argument is one of my favorite arguments for God’s existence and for Intelligent Design. Many of the constants and quantities of physics have to be precisely calibrated or else life couldn’t possibly exist anywhere in the universe at any time. It is so extremely, utterly, incomprehensibly improbable that these laws of physics
- [Shiny Pokemon and A Finely Tuned Universe](https://cerebralfaith.net/shiny-pokemon-and-finely-tuned-universe/) - People who know me personally know that I have been a big fan of the Pokemon games since I was 7 years old, and even though I’m grown, I still play the games and watch the show. In fact, I think there are many 20-30 year olds enjoying these games as there are those in
- [Atheists Must Affirm The Existence Of Everything In Order To Deny God](https://cerebralfaith.net/atheists-must-affirm-existence-of/) - The famous theologian G.K Chesterton once said “When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.” I have found that this is the logical implication of modern day atheism. In order to deny the existence of God, the atheists must affirm the existence of everything else. And when I
- [Do Souls Undermine The Fine Tuning Argument?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-souls-undermine-fine-tuning-argumen/) - Recently, William Lane Craig debated atheist Michael Nugent in Ireland on the existence of God. One of the arguments that Dr. Craig employed was The Fine Tuning Argument for design. I’m going to assume that readers of this article already have some familiarity with the fine tuning, so in case you’re new to the
- [My 5 Favorite Arguments For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/my-5-favorite-arguments-for-gods/) - A few months ago in a Facebook group (I think it was either Molinist – Official Page or The Christian Apologetics Support Group), someone made a poll asking what everyone’s favorite argument for God’s existence was. The poll creator exempted the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus from being among the options because, let’s
- [Responding to Sam Burke's Argument That Christianity Entails Anti-Natalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-sam-burkes-argument-tha/) - In the comment section of one of the posts on the Cerebral Faith facebook page, Sam Burke commented “If I found out Christianity was true, I would do everything in my power to stop people from having kids so that more people don’t go to Hell. According to Matthew 7:13 only a few people will
- [God's Freedom To Love Revisited](https://cerebralfaith.net/gods-freedom-to-love-revisited/) - Some object that if libertarian free will is required for human beings to love truly, then wouldn’t that undermine God’s love. After all, God is love by nature (1 John 4:8) because love is a moral value and if God were not loving, God would not be good. But God cannot choose to not be
- [Q&A: Follow Up On Objections To The Free Will Defense Against The Problem Of Evil](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-follow-up-on-objections-to-free-wi/) - Since as I have explained before, the email I last sent was incomplete I shall give a better one now with my responses and some additional arguments presented. I also wish to explain my purpose here. My goal is not to expound upon the power of the problem of evil or to refute the greater
- [Q&A: Is Omniscience A Self-Contradictory Concept?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-is-omniscience-self-contradictory/) - I have read many of your and many other Christians respond to many of the alleged contradictions of omniscience with either God’s attributes or things you believe exist in humans (Libertarian Free Will) and I have seen answers that seem adequate. However, I see a possible problem within omniscience that may mean that the concept
- [Q&A: Objections To The Free Will Defense Against The Problem Of Evil](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-objections-to-free-will-defense/) - (Note: Many of these arguments and statements with some modifications and additions were taken from my facebook comment on this article: http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/theodicy_freewill.html)The most successful free will defense argues that in order to do good a person must be able to do evil. (Ex. In order to be rewarded for obedience, you must be able to
- [A Courageous Argument Against A Maximally Great Being](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-courageous-argument-against-maximally/) - Someone left this argument against the first premise of The Modal Ontological Argument on The Cerebral Faith Facebook Page and I didn’t know how to respond. The argument is intended to show that a Maximally Great Being is incoherent, falsifying the first premise.It goes like this:Premise 1. A maximally great being would be as actively
- [The Moral Argument NOT Debunked - Response To YouTuber Rationality Rules](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-moral-argument-not-debunked/) - After writing my blog post titled “The Kalam Cosmological Argument NOT Debunked – A Response to YouTuber Rationality Rules”, one of my Facebook friends commented in one of the various places I had posted that blog post on Facebook and in the comment, he asked if I would respond to his video dealing with The Moral Argument.
- [The 5 Best Books On Molinism (GoodReads Reviews)](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-5-best-books-on-molinism-goodreads/) - I am a Molinist. If you’ve followed this blog or my podcast for any amount of time, that should come as no surprise to you. I believe Molinism is to systematic theology was Darwinian Evolution is to biology and paleontology (Oh yeah, I’m an Evolutionary Creationist too, by the way). Speaking of evolution, I did
- [Review Of The Apologetics Study Bible (2017 edition)](https://cerebralfaith.net/review-of-the-apologetics-study-bible-2017-edition/) - The Apologetics Study Bible, as the name would suggest, is a study bible. And also, as the name would suggest, it is aimed at informing its readers how to defend the truth of Christianity from “the intellectual attacks of the heathens” to use C.S Lewis’ words. This Bible is filled with articles written by such
- [Review of "The Fire That Consumes" by Edward Fudge](https://cerebralfaith.net/review-of-the-fire-that-consumes-by-edward-fudge/) - “The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study Of The Doctrine Of Final Punishment” is a fantastic theological treatise on the doctrine of Hell. In this book, Edward Fudge argues in favor the Annihilationist view (also known as The Conditional Immortality View) of Hell which says that the wicked are not tormented for all
- [BOOK REVIEW: Rethinking Hell: Readings In Evangelical Conditionalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-rethinking-hell-readings-in-evangelical-conditionalism/) - Rethinking Hell is a fantastic work. This book is a collection of essays and other writings by a variety of different Evangelical authors who promote a view known as Annihilationism or conditionalism. The editors are Chris Date, Greg Stump, and Joshua Anderson. Part 1 of the book contains two chapters interviewing the subject of evangelical
- [Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes (BOOK REVIEW)](https://cerebralfaith.net/misreading-scripture-with-western-eyes-book-review/) - All of us assume things that “go without saying.” And, until we encounter other cultures, we tend to assume that the things that go without saying are universally true. Moreover, we are not aware of these assumptions ordinarily. We don’t see them, we see “through” them. The book Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes Removing Cultural Blinders
- [Basic Christianity (BOOK REVIEW)](https://cerebralfaith.net/basic-christianity-book-review/) - “Basic Christianity” by John Stott is a really good premiere to the Christian faith. This is as much a Crash Course In Christian Doctrine as it is a defense of it. Stott combines evangelistic zeal and apologetics in this timeless classic, first published in 1958 and revised in 2008 shortly before Stott’s death in 2011
- [The Resurrection Of The Jewish Messiah (BOOK REVIEW)](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-resurrection-of-the-jewish-messiah-book-review/) - “The Resurrection Of The Jewish Messiah” by Eric Chabot is a short and sweet, but informative read on the historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. Chabot covers several areas in each chapter such as the reliability and trustworthiness of oral transmission (because the teachings and stories about Jesus circulated through oral tradition before being
- [BOOK REVIEW: "Jesus, Skepticism, And The Problem Of History"](https://cerebralfaith.net/book-review-jesus-skepticism-and-the-problem-of-history/) - “Jesus, Skepticism, and The Problem Of History: Criteria and Context In The Study Of Christian Origins” is a book written by a plethora of different New Testament scholars such as Darrel Bock, Craig Blomberg, Daniel B. Wallace, Craig Keener, Michael Licona, Scot Mcknight, Michael Bird, and several others. The book is a book on Historical
- [Q&A: The Ontological Argument And Possible Worlds That Don't Have Any Beings](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-ontological-argument-and-possible/) - Evan, Thank you for responding to my questions about The Ontological Argument. I've been trying to prove that the properties of existing in a world and being omniscient and omnipotent in that world are all together logically consistent. Intuitively, I think they might be consistent, but I haven't been able to prove it yet. In
- [Q&A: The Ontological Argument, God, and The Riemann Hypothesis](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-ontological-argument-god-and-riemann/) - Evan, thank you for correcting my mistake when I claimed the Ontological Argument is begging the question. I think we're in agreement now that the argument works both forward and in reverse; that is, you could reason from the premise to the conclusion or from the conclusion to the premise. So, the premise and conclusion
- [Q&A: Is The Ontological Argument Question Begging?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-is-ontological-argument-question/) - Evan,As you have again mentioned The Ontological Argument, I’ve been examining it in detail, and I think I have pinpointed its fatal flaw.You wrote in your first premise, “It’s possible that a Maximally Great Being (MGB) exists.” And you explained in your third premise that if an MGB exists, it must exist necessarily; otherwise, it wouldn’t
- [Scripture In The Hands Of A Wiggly Calvinist: A Response To Tony Lee Ross Jr.](https://cerebralfaith.net/scripture-in-hands-of-wiggly-calvinis/) - My recent blog post titled "5 Biblical Texts That Calvinists Can't Wiggle Out Of" has gotten a lot of attention, and that's an understatement. The day after I published it, this blog got 3,301 page views in a day where the average amount of page views per day is around 300-700. It attracted some back
- [Let The Wiggling Commence: A Response To Kevin Courter](https://cerebralfaith.net/let-wiggling-commence-response-to-kevin/) - My most recent article "5 Biblical Texts That Calvinists Can't Wiggle Out Of" received a LOT of views (numbering in the thousands per day) as well as a lot of backlash (the latter of which was to be expected). Most just simply made comments that were tantamount to saying "Nuh-uh" or "You're wrong" which, of
- [Remember Jesus. He Blew Up The Stars So That You Could Be Born.](https://cerebralfaith.net/remember-jesus-he-blew-up-stars-so-you/) - Lawrence Krauss’ book A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing was released in 2012 and became a best seller. The main thesis of the book is to try to account for why the universe sprang into existence from no pre-existing material 14 billion years ago without the need for a spaceless, timeless,
- [Responding To Free Will Critics](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-free-will-critics/) - My article "5 Arguments For The Existence Of Free Will" became very popular. Tim Stratton liked it so much that he featured it as a guest post on his blog FreeThinkingMinistires.com, Martin Glynn specifically asked me to post it to The Society Of Evangelical Arminians' website, and Jairo Izquierdo published it as a guest post
- [Love, Hate, and The Divine Identity Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/love-hate-and-divine-identity-argumen/) - Introduction In my book Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods, I make a case for Christianity using what I now call "The Divine Identity Argument". The Divine Identity argument, as I explained in the blog post I just linked to, takes common arguments for the existence
- [Q&A: Can't Natural Theology Be Used To Prove The Existence Of Any Ole Deity?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-cant-natural-theology-be-used-to/) - This a discussion I had with an Atheist about Natural theology. Is he correct or am I missing something? Sometimes I'm not sure if he is being tricky or not. Now if I'm wrong, let me know. He provided a link on Natural theology. Is this correct? (Me) is me talking to him. (Me) You
- [The Divine Identity Argument For Christianity](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-divine-identity-argument-for/) - In August of 2015, I published my very first book ever: Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods. The book was written to respond to skeptics who frequently pose the question "Why do you believe in Jesus instead of all these other gods you claim are myths?
- [Why Would You Thank God For Your Survival?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-would-you-thank-god-for-your_11/) - An atheist I follow on Google+ posted this on his wall, and while I don't usually respond to memes or comics/cartoons, I thought I'd take the time to respond to this one. I'm going to put myself in the place of the character on the left and continue where the skeptic in the comic strip
- [Did God Break The Law When He Sent Jesus to The Cross?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-god-break-law-when-he-sent-jesus-to/) - This blog post was inspired by a meme that someone posted in a group I’m in (the one shown above) regarding the doctrine of the atonement (i.e Jesus died for our sins). The poster said ----------------------------------------------------- God’s basic law regarding "sin" and the "sinners" is fair, just and righteous adapted and implemented as well in
- [Christianity: Religion, Relationship, or Both?](https://cerebralfaith.net/christianity-religion-relationship-or/) - In this blog post, I wish to talk about a catch phrase that has become enormously popular in modern Christendom. This one is so important because it has become a catch-all phrase we use when nonbelievers don’t like Christianity. We automatically assume its because the person doesn’t like organized religion (and it has also made
- [Can We Not Trust The Gospels Because They're Biased?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-we-not-trust-gospels-because-theyre/) - Many skeptics claim that we can't trust what the New Testament authors said because they're bias. They said that they have an invested interest in writing down the things they wrote down. They say it's propaganda. It's a religious text. It's meant to be a tool for converting people and nothing more. Are they write?
- [Belief That and Belief In](https://cerebralfaith.net/belief-that-and-belief-in/) - There’s a common Christian slogan that’s been going around. It goes like this: “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage makes you a car.” Usually, I don't like Christian slogans (bumper sticker theology my friends often call it), but in this case, I agree. You can give intellectual
- [How Should We Pray and What Should We Pray For?](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-should-we-pray-and-what-should-we/) - In the Christian life, sometimes we wonder what exactly is appropriate for us to pray over. This is important since prayer is when we engage in conversation with God. In my humble opinion, prayer is equally important than reading The Bible. After all, The Bible is God’s way of speaking to us and prayer is
- [Can God Really Forgive You?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-god-really-forgive-you/) - Do you want to come to Jesus Christ and accept Him as Lord of your life but think that you’re too wretched for God to forgive you? Maybe you’ve had an abortion, maybe you’ve just been released from serving time in prison for murdering some people, maybe you’ve committed adultery. Can God really forgive a
- [Jesus Christ did Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/jesus-christ-did-apologetics/) - If you’ve been following this blog for a good while now, you’re probably aware that The Bible does not endorse blind faith (and in some cases actually discourages it), and also that it exhorts the believer to engage in the practice of Christian Apologetics; the intellectual defense of the Christian Faith using science, history, philosophy
- [Q and A: My Thoughts On The Baptist Confession Of London](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-my-thoughts-on-baptist-confession/) - What is your opinion or how would you start refuting Chap 5 on Providence from the Baptist Confession of London 1689. - Jose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To my other readers, what Jose is referring to can be read in its entirety by clicking on this link ---> http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/creeds/bcof.htm#part5 And, for the most part, I would agree
- [Is It Arrogant To Claim To Know What God Is Thinking?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-it-arrogant-to-claim-to-know-wha/) - Occasionally, when explaining God's plans for the universe or mankind, a non-Christian will respond with something like "You're claiming to know what God thinks? Wow, isn't that arrogant of you?" Yeah, I think we CAN know what God thinks at least to a certain extent. I believe The Bible is God's Word and that He
- [Responding To An Anti-Christian Meme: Little Timmy and The Man Who Murdered His Family](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-anti-christian-meme/) - The Bible teaches that "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16). God took on human flesh (John 1:14, Philippians 2:5-8), and died a bloody, slow, torturous death on the cross to atone for our sins
- [What Is The Point In Praying For Someone’s Salvation?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-is-point-in-praying-for-someones/) - When I was a new Christian, I had a notebook of people’s names that I would pray for. This list was of people I knew weren’t saved and were on their way to Hell. I used to spend a half hour a day praying mightily for their salvation from God’s judgment. I prayed for atheists,
- [A Biblical Case For Sola Fide](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-biblical-case-for-sola-fide/) - Sola Fide is latin for “Faith Alone”. It means that we are saved from eternal damnation from our sins only by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. There is nothing else besides faith in Christ that is either necessary nor is able to save us. The doctrine of Sola Fide says that that good works
- [What Does The Bible Say About Judging?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-does-bible-say-about-judging/) - Does The Bible really tell us that we shouldn’t judge people? Well, yes and no. There are different definitions of judging and I think people can easily get confused when they read passages in scripture about judging. Let’s take a look at scripture and see what it says about judging. DID JESUS SAY NOT TO
- [Why Doesn't God Reveal The Reasons Why He Permits Suffering?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-doesnt-god-reveal-reasons-why-he/) - During the time of writing this blog, I’ve written a couple of blogs about the topic of suffering and how it relates to God and the Christian faith. In “The Problem Of Evil and Suffering” and it’s revamped version “The Problem Of Evil & Suffering Revisited”, I gave several reasons why I think it’s not
- [Does The Bible Teach That God Is A Trinity?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-bible-teach-that-god-is-trinity/) - There are many cults in the world who claim to embrace The Bible as the inspired word of God (e.g Mormons and Jehova’s Witnesses) but deny such essential doctrines of the Christian faith such as the deity of Jesus Christ and the Trinity. If you want to know why these are essentials to being a
- [Are Catholics Christians?](https://cerebralfaith.net/are-catholics-christians/) - I've heard a handful of Christians I've talked to online refer to Catholics as non-Christians. I'm not really sure why, and I'm usually skeptical when I hear a group who professes Jesus Christ be called a non-Christian sect because I've even heard Old Earth Creationists like Hugh Ross and myself be labeled as non-Christians because
- [Was God Unfair To Judas Iscariot?](https://cerebralfaith.net/was-god-unfair-to-judas-iscario/) - This has been an issue I’ve been thinking about for a while. It’s a problem that could be posed to the Molinist giving our view of human freedom and divine sovereignty. Once again, I’ll give a brief explanation of what this means. God has middle knowledge according to the Molinist theology. This knowledge is knowledge
- [A Simple Explanation Of Why Some Possible Worlds Are Infeasible](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-simple-explanation-of-why-some/) - Ever since my conversation with Mark Hall on The Ontological Argument (in the comment section of that article), I've been doing my best to figure out the simplest way possible to explain why a world with universal salvation and 100% moral goodness is an infeasible world for God to create. I think one way to think of it
- [Why I Think A Local Flood Interpretation Is More Plausible.](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-think-local-flood-interpretation/) - There is a divide within the body of Christ over the first few chapters of The Bible. It’s this issue of Young Earth VS. Old Earth Creationism. This debate is generally over whether the “days” in Genesis 1 are 24 hour days or whether they are long time periods. Both Old Earth and Young Earth
- [Is Mark 10:6 Evidence For A Young Earth?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-mark-106-evidence-for-young-ear/) - Young Earth Creationists, in an attempt to discredit the Old Earth Creationist position, often times likes to point to a sentence by Jesus. “"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'” – Mark 10:6 The context is this verse is the institution of marriage. Jesus had just left Capernaum and went down to
- [Should Christians Marry Non-Christians?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-christians-marry-non-christians/) - This is probably something that goes on more often then I’d like to think about. But there are many Christian men and women who have fallen in love with non-Christians. They’re in romantic relationships with people who do not share in their worldview and religious beliefs. While friendships between Christians and non-Christians are allowed (and
- [In What Way Is Jesus Begotten From The Father?](https://cerebralfaith.net/in-what-way-is-jesus-begotten-fro/) - The Bible says in John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life”. The Bible teaches that Jesus is God Himself, the second person of The Holy Trinity, the Creator of the universe (see John 1:1-14, John 10:30, Isaiah 9:6, Colossians
- ["All Kinds" Of Inconsistency](https://cerebralfaith.net/all-kinds-of-inconsistency/) - We Arminians and Molinists, in arguing for universal atonement (also known as unlimited atonement) will often times appeal to various scriptures which, on their face, appear to mean that God both loves, died for, and desires every human being who would ever live to be saved and to come into an eternal relationship with Himself.Such
- [5 Reasons I’m Not A Roman Catholic](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-reasons-im-not-roman-catholic/) - Everyone who knows me knows that I am not a Roman Catholic. It should be said that I respect the Roman Catholics and I do believe them to be my brothers and sisters in Christ. In fact, it was through watching EWTN 5 years ago that The Lord revealed to me that I wasn’t saved!
- [Why Pre-Fall Death Isn't A Problem For Old Earth Creationism](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-pre-fall-death-isnt-problem-for-old/) - I think the primary objection young earth creationists have to old earth creation models (like that of Reasons To Believe and BioLogos) is that an ancient world requires that there was millions and millions of years of animals dying, suffering, and killing. I’ve heard many biblical arguments given in defense of young earth creationism (none
- [Q & A: Death Before The Fall & The Extent Of The Flood](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-death-before-fall-extent-of-flood/) - cerebralfaith.blogspot.com/2017/12/if-evolution-were-true-what-would.html?m=1Thanks for this! Loved the 1st one, btw I have a question-was there death beforr the fall? And if there were then was it not evil? I think if there ever were then they weren’t considered evil in thr stratton model since adam’s death and eve’s were spiritual death but those deaths were only natural
- [Q & A: On Getting People To Crucify The Christ](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-on-getting-people-to-crucify-chris/) - Hi, do you think God wanted the Romans to actually kill Jesus to make a sacrifice for us, or Christ's death is contingent and God just used it to atone for our sins? God didn't want to accept them. He wanted the Romans to kill Him, so He wanted them to sin. -- Eli ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This
- [Should We Take The Bible Literally?](https://cerebralfaith.net/should-we-take-bible-literally/) - I can't tell you how many time I've heard someone ask me, or ask a fellow Christian "Do you take The Bible literally?" I'm never really sure what the questioner intends by his question. What does he mean by "literally"? Does he mean do I read every single sentence from Genesis to Revelation as a
- [If Jesus Wants Everyone Saved, Why Did He Not Pray For The World?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-jesus-wants-everyone-saved-why-did/) - One very common Calvinist proof text for limited atonement and a limited salvic will on God’s part is in John 17:9. The context of the passage is Jesus in Garden Of Gethsemane. The synoptic gospels do record some of the content of Jesus’ preaching, but the Apostle John chooses to reveal a lot more content
- [A Blog Post On God and His Love](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-blog-post-on-god-and-his-love/) - 1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16 say unequivocally "God IS Love". Love is not just an accidental property that God has (like how I just happen to have brown hair). Love is an essential and necessary part of who God is. If God were lack the property of love, He wouldn't be God. Now, 1 Corinthians
- [Who Were The Nephillim?](https://cerebralfaith.net/who-were-nephilli/) - "When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days
- [Reflecting On "The Divine Council"](https://cerebralfaith.net/reflecting-on-divine-counci/) - Recently, I read Michael Heiser's book The Unseen Realm: Recovering The Supernatural Worldview Of The Bible. I mentally wrestled with his prospect of "the divine council". Heiser talks about this in this lecture as well btw. Sometimes I do a soliloquy or write out my thought process when there is subject matter or information that I
- [Did Jesus Exist?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-jesus-exis/) - I don’t know why, but 99% of the atheists I talk to on the internet hold the ludicrous position that Jesus never existed. Now, they’re atheists. I expect them not to believe in the divinity of Jesus. How could they? If they did, they wouldn’t be atheists. They’d be Christians. No. I’m not here talking
- [5 People Who Came To Faith (And 1 Who Stayed) Through Christian Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-people-who-came-to-faith-and-1-who/) - Christian Apologetics is the art of defending the Christian faith. Apologetics can be done in 2 different forms; offensive and defensive. Offensive apologetics involves giving a positive case for the Christian faith. It involves providing rational arguments and evidence that establish that Christianity is true (like when I give The Kalam Cosmological Argument or The Fine Tuning Argument in
- [Does The Bible Condone Slavery?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-bible-condone-slavery/) - Atheists, in their attempts to paint God and His Word in a bad light will often times argue that The Bible supports and condones slavery. Certainly Old Testament passages can be found that talk about rules and regulations of slavery, and slavery was instituted in The Old Testament. Well, there you go; God is evil
- [Why Isn’t There Divine Obviousness For The Spiritual Seeker?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-isnt-there-divine-obviousness-for/) - I just finished watching Dr. William Lane Craig’s Defenders 3 videos on Natural Theology. I watched the videos where he dealt with the divine hiddenness objection that atheists frequently bring up. You can watch these two videos here and here in order to find out what Craig had to say about divine hiddenness. I largely
- [Teaching Kids To Pray Prevents Them From Becoming Problem Solvers?](https://cerebralfaith.net/teaching-kids-to-pray-prevents-the/) - I saw a meme posted on an Atheist's twitter page yesterday that said "Teaching kids to pray to solve problems creates adults who can't solve problems". The meme was made by Godless Utopia. What exactly is this meme supposed to be saying? What exactly is the argument supposed to be? It appears to me that
- [Faith or Works?](https://cerebralfaith.net/faith-or-works/) - "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast." - Ephesians 2:8-9 "FAITH by ITSELF, if it does not have WORKS, is DEAD" - James 2:17 This is one of the supposed contradictions skeptics bring up. "Paul
- [Why Peter Enns' Thoughts On Apologetics Are Fallacious](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-peter-enns-thoughts-on-apologetics/) - Recently Peter Enns, an American Biblical Scholar and theologian, and Senior Fellow of BioLogos, wrote an article on his thoughts about Christian Apologetics. The article can be read by clicking here. I appreciate Enns' works in theology and have read many of his blog posts on www.biologos.org. I also plan on reading some of his
- [Q&A: Objections Against Libertarian Free Will](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-objections-against-libertarian-free/) - Greetings, I am a non-Christian specifically a Deist who wanted to comment on your article 5 Arguments For the Existence Of Free Will, however I am currently unable to comment in the comment section so I am doing it by Email. I am a Determinist who is very much sympathetic to Calvinism and I admire it to
- [How Do You Even Know What Properties Go To Make A Being Great?](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-do-you-even-know-what-properties-go/) - The Ontological Argument is an argument for God’s existence that seeks to prove the existence of God from the very possibility of God’s existence. If God could exist, then it follows that God does exist. That sounds like a non-sequitor to many, but it really isn’t when you know the hidden premises in between
- [5 Logical Fallacies I’ve Heard Non-Christians Use In Debates](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-logical-fallacies-ive-heard-non/) - Learning logic is important if you want to find out truth about the world. Logic helps us discern truth from falsehoods, fact from fiction, wheat from chaff, sense from nonsense. Indeed, logic can prevent a person from being lead astray. I have a high regard for logic and reason. That’s why my blog is called
- [Did Jesus Command His Followers To Hate Their Family?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-jesus-command-his-followers-to-hate/) - One of the common things atheists bring up in conversation with theists is Jesus' statement in Luke 14:26. In this verse of The Bible, Jesus says "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters--yes, even their own life--such a person cannot be my disciple." They will argue
- ["Biblical Proof For God's Omnibenevolence" by Brenden Paul Burnett](https://cerebralfaith.net/biblical-proof-for-gods-omnibenevolence/) - This argument was formulated by Brenden Paul Burnett. To read the defense of each of the premises from the original source the argument came from, click here. I have posted it below with his permission. 1. Introduction. Divine omnibenevolence, or the all-loving nature of God, postulates God as a morally perfect and entirely good being
- [Something For Calvinists To Chew On.](https://cerebralfaith.net/something-for-calvinists-to-chew-on/) - I've been reading the latter part of the Old Testament and something really interesting occurred to me. God spends so many chapters complaining about all the evil that Israel and Judah have been doing and He describes all the horrible things He's going to (justly and rightly) do to them for all the evil things they've been doing. Here's
- [Why Does God Hide Himself?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-does-god-hide-himself/) - Why is God not more obvious? Why does He not make it undeniable that He exists if He wants everyone to believe that He exists so that they don’t go to Hell when they die for the sins that they have committed in this life? This is a good point and it’s one of the
- [Did Noah’s Ark Rip Off Gilgamesh?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-noahs-ark-rip-off-gilgames/) - The epic of Gilgamesh is a story that closely parallel’s the biblical story of “Noah’s Ark”. Because of its similarity, this has caused people to doubt the historicity of the Genesis flood. There are other reasons people doubt the historicity of the flood account as well, but many of these objections presuppose that The Bible
- [You’re Only A Christian Because You Were Raised In A Christian Home](https://cerebralfaith.net/youre-only-christian-because-you-were/) - More than once, when debating atheists on the internet, I’ve had the atheist say something along the lines of “You’re only a Christian because you were raised in a Christian household. If you were raised in a Muslim household, you’d be a Muslim. If you were born in a Buddhist home, you’d be a Buddhist”.
- [Thou Shall Not Kill: Does God Violate His Own Commandment?](https://cerebralfaith.net/thou-shall-not-kill-does-god-violate/) - I was having a discussion with an atheist recently over the apparent unfairness of an Old Testament law. After defending the law from a scriptural, historical and logical perspective I turned the discussion to point out the incoherency of such persistent complaints on his view. After all, this guy has advocated on two different occasions,
- [What Does It Mean To Fear The Lord?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-does-it-mean-to-fear-lord/) - Several places in The Bible talk about a “fear of the Lord”. For example, Proverbs 9:10 says “The fear of The Lord is the beginning of wisdom….” Jesus said in Matthew 10:28 not to fear those who can destroy the body but no more than that, but that we should fear the one who has the power
- [Why Was God So Upset About Adam and Eve Eating Fruit?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-was-god-so-upset-about-adam-and-eve/) - Adam and Eve had sinned against God. God told them that they could eat of any tree throughout the entire garden but warned them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16-17). Some time later, Satan showed up and asked “Did God really say you must not eat the
- [Does thinking Calvinism impugns God’s Goodness Preclude Fellowship With Calvinists?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-thinking-calvinism-impugns-gods/) - Anyone’s who’s been on Cerebral Faith for a while knows that I am not sympathetic to Calvinist theology whatsoever. I think Calvinism is a false theology on both scriptural and conceptual or philosophical grounds. I have made that point in several different blog posts on this website. Recently, a friend of mine published an article
- [Q&A: Follow Up On Objections To Libertarian Free Will](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-follow-up-on-objections-to/) - Thank you for responding to my question(s). I, however, would like to clarify some of my points. I think you have misunderstood many of my arguments. For my first one, I will just rephrase it because I did such a poor job of explaining my main argument that there cannot be free will that it
- [A Response to Richard Bushey’s “How Job Answers The Central Objection To Calvinism”](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-response-to-richard-busheys-how-job/) - *Sigh* I was really hoping to stay out of the soteriology debate for a while, but I guess I’ll have to write another Calvinism post. Richard Bushey recently wrote an article criticizing my moral arguments against Calvinism. I’d like to take the time right now to respond to what he wrote. First off, the whole theme of
- [Is Molinism Biblical?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-molinism-biblica/) - I want to address the objection that Molinism is unbiblical. Often times both Calvinists and Arminians will accuse the Molinist of interpreting The Bible with philosophy. They’ll argue that studying The Bible won’t cough up Molinist doctrine. But are they right? Is Molinism an idea not found in scripture? Well, the only way to know
- [Response to Bushey's Critique Of My Prevenient Grace Article](https://cerebralfaith.net/response-to-busheys-critique-of-my/) - I recently made an exception to my self imposed rule about not writing any posts about Calvinism when I wrote “What Biblical Evidence Is There For Prevenient Grace”. I did this because I had a fire lit under me. Richard Bushey of ThereforeGodExists.com wrote an article critiquing the article. You can read it by clicking here. Unfortunately, that
- [What Biblical Evidence Is There For Prevenient Grace?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-biblical-evidence-is-there-for/) - Prevenient Grace is the Arminian doctrine that God sends His Holy Spirit to enable a person to choose to receive Christ in order to be born again, and thus, saved. We believe, like Calvinists, that man is utterly sinful and depraved, and that every part of him has been infected to some degree by the
- [A Look At Kirk MacGregor's Argument For Middle Knowledge](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-look-at-kirk-macgregors-argument-for/) - Middle Knowledge is foreknowledge of counterfactuals which God possesses logically prior to His choice of which possible world to actualize. It’s called “middle” knowledge because the theologian Luis De Molina (the founder of the theory known as Molinism) placed this type of knowledge in between God’s knowledge of everything that could happen (Natural Knowledge) and
- [Could God Not Have Used Evolution Because It's A Random Process?](https://cerebralfaith.net/could-god-not-have-used-evolution/) - The theory of Darwinian evolution is seen by many, both believer and non-believer alike, to be incompatible with Christianity. I myself used to believe this, though as a result of the last several months of investigating Evolutionary Creationist material (i.e BioLogos blog posts and books) in addition to my own private reflection on the subject,
- [A Response To Vexen Crabtree: God Does Have Free Will](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-response-to-vexen-crabtree-god-does/) - We often talk of human beings having free will. In fact, I wrote an article giving 5 arguments for why human beings have it. I have the freedom to choose to eat healthily or to eat junk food, I have the freedom to watch Doctor Who on a Saturday evening or watch Pokémon. But we scarcely
- [The Contingency Argument For God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-contingency-argument-for-gods/) - Why does anything at all exist? Why isn’t there just nothing? This is the first philosophical question I ever remember asking myself. I remember lying in bed at night when I was about 6 years old, and I asked and pondered this very question. I thought to myself “Everything must have been made by God.
- [Christians Are Opposed To Science! -- What Do You Mean By That?](https://cerebralfaith.net/christians-are-opposed-to-science-wha/) - In any debate or argument, it’s very important that you understand the terminology that your opponent is using and that your opponent understands the terminology that you’re using. If you don’t define your terms, you’ll just end up talking past each other and you’ll end up attacking straw men. As the philosopher, Voltaire put it:
- [Why Did God Have Israelite Parents Execute Unruly Sons?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-did-god-have-israelite-parents/) - There are quite a few things in the Old Testament that seem gruesome at first glance that God has either done or commanded others to do. I often times have to give arguments against atheists in internet debates to show how a lot of these things aren’t as bad as they’re making them out to
- [Was God Unfair To Rape Victims In Old Testament Times?](https://cerebralfaith.net/was-god-unfair-to-rape-victims-in-old/) - “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the
- [How I Evolved Into An Evolutionary Creationist](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-i-evolved-into-evolutionary/) - For much of my life, I have been opposed to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Like many Christians, I considered it to be incompatible with God’s existence or at the very least epistemological justification of believing that God exists, and I found it to be incompatible with a faithful reading of Genesis 1-3. I knew of
- [5 Instances In The Bible Of God Having Good Reasons For Suffering](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-instances-in-bible-of-god-having-good/) - One of the most common arguments against God’s existence is the argument from suffering. If God is all powerful and all loving, argues the atheist, then why does he allow so many people to endure so much suffering? The atheist argues that many instances of suffering in the world seem pointless and unnecessary to us,
- [The Ontological Argument for God's Existence](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-ontological-argument-for-gods/) - There are many arguments for God’s existence. Some of them are good (e.g The Fine-Tuning Argument), and some of them are very, very bad (e.g Ray Comfort’s Banana-Hand argument). Some arguments are good, but are very abstract and somewhat difficult to understand at first. The Ontological Argument is one of these. I find the Ontological Argument
- [Helpful Tips On Loving Your Enemies](https://cerebralfaith.net/helpful-tips-on-loving-your-enemies/) - Approximately 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ said something pretty surprising; "You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue
- [Was It God Who Raised Jesus From The Dead?](https://cerebralfaith.net/was-it-god-who-raised-jesus-from-dead/) - I have argued that we have good reasons to believe the Old Testament is inspired and true given what Jesus said about himself, and that He proved those claims by rising from the dead. God would never raise a blasphemer and a heretic, which is exactly what Jesus would be if his claims were false.
- [Is There Anything Wrong With The Sinner's Prayer?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-there-anything-wrong-with-sinners/) - Is there anything wrong with The Sinner's Prayer? Well, first, what is "The Sinner's Prayer"? If you've been to a few churches and have heard the gospel preached, you've probably heard The Sinner's Prayer. The Sinner's Prayer is usually a scripted prayer that the pastor says right after his sermon is over and he's giving
- [An Unbeliever Meets The God Of Determinism (Satire)](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-unbeliever-meets-god-of-determinis/) - One day, a non-Christian named Sam was driving down the road. He was on his way to pick up groceries for his wife and 5 kids. But then something terrible happened! He was a in a car accident! He was killed instantly! Suddenly, Sam found himself surrounded in a bright light, and soon he found
- [What You Don’t Need To Prove In Order To Establish Jesus’ Resurrection](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-you-dont-need-to-prove-in-order-to/) - I’ve written several articles on Jesus’ resurrection, and I debated a guy named Nathan Reese on The Therefore God Exists Podcast on the topic. You can click here to watch the debate. One problem with the apologetic for Jesus’ resurrection is that there are some misconceptions that believer and unbeliever alike tend to have. I
- [Why I’m Not An Open Theist](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-im-not-open-theis/) - Open Theism is a view that says that God does not have foreknowledge. Open Theists will argue that God has perfect knowledge of the past and the present, but not the future. God knows everything there is to know about the past and the present (e.g he knows what every human being has done, said,
- [Are Proverbs 26:4 and Proverbs 26:5 Contradictory?](https://cerebralfaith.net/are-proverbs-264-and-proverbs-265/) - In the book of Proverbs, Solomon says “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.” (Proverbs 26:4). However, it also says “Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.” Some skeptics look at these Bible verses and say
- [Is Christianity A Belief That's Harmful To Society?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-christianity-belief-thats-harmful-to/) - The New Atheists believe that Christianity and religion is a great evil to society. To support this demonization of the Christian faith, they’ll point to things like the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition where great bloodshed was done in the name of Christ. They’ll take these two historical events and make a universal judgment that
- [5 Signs A Person Is A Nominal Christian](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-signs-person-is-nominal-christian/) - Nominal Christians, as I’ve explained in past blog posts like “Belief That and Belief In”, “Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation (Molinist Perspective”), and “Answering Objections To The Keathley/Craig Model Of Eternal Security”, are people who believe that Christianity is true, but they’re not saved. They have belief that but not belief in. They believe
- [Do Christians Only Do Good To Avoid Punishment?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-christians-only-do-good-to-avoid/) - Atheists charge Christians with being less moral than they are because they believe in a God who rewards good and punishes evil. They charge the theist with only doing good and shunning evil for those reasons. We do good because we want our Heavenly Father to shower us with goodies and we avoid doing bad
- [If The Flood Was Local, Why Didn’t God Just Tell Noah To Move?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-flood-was-local-why-didnt-god-jus/) - Is the flood global or local? This is an issue of intense debate between young earth creationists and old earth creationists. Young earth creationists believe the flood described in Genesis 6-9 covered the entire planet, such that not a single piece of land was left visible, this wiped out all of humanity except for the
- [Q and A: Could A Failure To Experience God’s Holy Spirit Justify Unbelief?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-could-failure-to-experience-gods/) - Hi, I have always been fond of William Lane Craig's appeal to personal experiences. A person can know that God exists just by the witness of the Holy Spirit. However, I have wondered if there might be an argument against the existence of God from the failure of the witness of the Holy Spirit. A
- [Q and A: Questions About Jesus' Ascension, Possible Defeaters To Christian Belief, and Molinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-questions-about-jesus-ascension/) - I told some friends about this and I have a few questions: 1) If Jesus was a human after his resurrection, how is it that he could ascend into heaven and into outer space? 2) What would be a defeater of the Christian faith? What would falsify Christianity? 3) What would you do if Molinism
- [Does Christianity Diminish The Value Of Women?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-christianity-diminish-value-of/) - One of the many supposed moral arguments that Atheists make against The Bible is that it treats women as inferior human beings, that it diminishes their value, that it’s sexist. Passages they point to in an attempt to prove their point would be passages like 1 Timothy 2:11-12 which says “A woman should learn in
- [Can Science Prove The Existence Of God?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-science-prove-existence-of-god/) - Science and Christianity are often perceived to be at war with one another and unfortunately, this idea is fueled by both atheists and Christians alike. The way it's framed is that you can either believe The Bible and hold a Christian worldview or believe science and hold an atheistic worldview. Many Christians (myself included) will
- [Did Jesus Violate Paul's Free Will?](https://cerebralfaith.net/did-jesus-violate-pauls-free-wi/) - I've been seeing an anti-Arminian meme floating around Facebook that shows a painting of Paul on the ground when Christ appears to him, and the caption says "So there I was on my way to free Christians when I used my Free Will to become one". The implication is that Paul didn't use his free
- [An Argument Of Hope For Porn/Masturbation Addicts](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-argument-of-hope-for/) - Porn addiction has run rampant in the world today thanks to the internet. Anyone can access pornography from their computer, and thanks to phones and tablets, now it’s even easier to access porn! You don’t even have to be glued to a computer to look at it! I’ve seen many statistics of how many men
- [Molinism and Its Relation To Soteriology](https://cerebralfaith.net/molinism-and-its-relation-to-soteriology/) - Many people think that Molinism is a soteriological view similar to, but different from Arminianism. Others think Molinism is a soteriological view similar to, but different from Calvinism. As a Molinist myself, I’ve been called an Arminian by Calvinists, and I’ve been called a Calvinist by Arminians. This is because Molinism, as it relates to
- [Responding to A YouTube Comment On Evolutionary Creationism](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-youtube-comment-on/) - I was watching some videos on BioLogos' YouTube channel, and in the comment section of one video discussing evidence for Macro Evolution, I came across this comment from an atheist; "This seems like it's using empiricism and rational thought but then there is this weird Nonsequitur tacked on the end. Why would a God need
- [Things Christians Should Think About During Hard Times](https://cerebralfaith.net/things-christians-should-think-abou/) - 2016 has been a very difficult year for me. Me and my family has been struggling financially for the past year-and-a-half. It only gets worse as time goes on. My parents are in bad health, we can't afford to do anything, and just recently I thought that my dog might pass away as he was
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 1: Introduction](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-1-introduction/) - The word "hermenuetics" is, for some reason, a foreign term for a lot of Christians. Even though they grew up in the church or, even if they didn't grow up in the church, have been attending the church for many years, this word is a new one to them. They don't know what it means.
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 2: Reading A Text In Its Context](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-2-reading-text-in/) - This is part 2 of a series on biblical hermenuetics. In the previous post, I explained what biblical hermeneutics is and why it's important. Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles and methods of interpreting the text of the Bible. The purpose of biblical hermeneutics is to help us to know how to properly interpret,
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 3: Understanding The Cultural Context](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-3-understanding/) - This blog post is one part in a series on biblical hermenuetics. In the introduction to this series, I explained what biblical hermenuetics is and why it's so important. In the previous blog post, I talked about the principle of reading Bible verses in context. In this blog post, I'm going to look at another
- [Heremenuetics 101 - Part 4: Letting Scripture Interpret Scripture](https://cerebralfaith.net/heremenuetics-101-part-4-letting/) - This is part 4 of a series on biblical hermenuetics. Hermenuetics is the art and science of biblical intepretation. It is a set of rules that you should apply when reading The Bible in order to come to correct conclusions about what it says. It is similar to the scientific method. Just as the scientific
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 5: Knowing The Genre](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-5-knowing-genre/) - This is a series on biblical hermenuetics. Hermenuetics is the art and science of biblical interpretation. Just as scientists follow a set of rules called The Scientific Method in order to come to correct scientific conclusions, theologians follow a set of rules in order to come to correct interpretations of Bible passages. We've looked at
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 6: The Grammatical Principle](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-6-grammatica/) - This is part 6 in a series of blog posts on biblical hermenuetics. Hermenuetics is a set of principles for coming to correct interpretations of passages in The Bible. I think a fair analogy would be to compare hermenuetics to the scientific principle. Just as there are certain steps a scientist needs to go through before coming
- [Hermenuetics 101 - Part 7: Literal Until Proven Non-Literal](https://cerebralfaith.net/hermenuetics-101-part-7-literal-unti/) - This is part 7 on a series on biblical hermenuetics. Biblical hermenuetics is the art and science of biblical interpretation. In the previous blog post, we looked at the principle of examining the grammatical structure of biblical passages. In this blog post, we'll look at the principle of: Reading A Text Literally Unless There Are
- [Heremenuetics 101 - Part 8: The Progressive Revelation Principle](https://cerebralfaith.net/heremenuetics-101-part-8-progressive/) - This is part 8 in a series of blog posts on biblical hermenuetics. Hermenuetics is a set of principles for coming to correct interpretations of passages in The Bible. I think a fair analogy would be to compare hermenuetics to the scientific method. Just as there are certain steps a scientist needs to go through before coming
- [What Does It Mean To Be 'Dead In Sins'?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-does-it-mean-to-be-dead-in-sins/) - Ephesians 2:1-5 says "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our
- [Why I Don't Believe In Transubstantiation](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-i-dont-believe-in-transubstantiation/) - "And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, 'This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.' In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you."
- [Trust Your Father](https://cerebralfaith.net/trust-your-father/) - Why do we find it so hard to trust in God sometimes? I sometimes find myself asking that question. Lately, I find myself worrying so much about everything, especially money and my parents' health. As mentioned in a previous blog post, things have been pretty hard for a while. 2016 was a very, very hard
- [Why I'm A Partial Preterist](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-im-partial-preteris/) - For the longest time, I've been undecided on my view of eschatology, and it was a long time before I looked into the subject at all. Being a finite human being and being unable to delve in depth into every subject matter equally, I had to give precedence to some subjects over others. When I
- [Q & A: Is Divine Timelessness Compatible With Molinism?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-is-divine-timelessness-compatible/) - Do you have any thoughts on the (in)compatibility of Molinism and divine timelessness? In particular it seems that, given God's free choice to self-determine his own free knowledge, this creates a change in God's knowledge (i.e. he would go from "I can create such and such a world" to "I am creating such and such
- [Jesus Is More Than Your King, He's Also Your Friend](https://cerebralfaith.net/jesus-is-more-than-your-king-hes-also/) - For the past year or so, for some strange reason I've been feeling increasingly uncomfortable talking to God. I had no idea why for the longest time. It puzzled me and disturbed me. I kept thinking "What is it that makes me so uptight in approaching God? Why do I feel as nervous as a
- [Objections To Concordism STILL Not Answered: A Response To Alexander Young](https://cerebralfaith.net/objections-to-concordism-still-no/) - Followers of this blog will remember when I published a blog post a couple of months ago responding to Alexander Young's article "Objections To Concordism Answered" which was titled "Objections To Concordism NOT Answered". He recently published a response to my response. So now I will publish a response to his response to my response. For
- [5 Possible Reasons Your Prayers Haven't Been Answered](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-possible-reasons-your-prayers-haven/) - All Christians pray to God. Prayer is not just something we do to get something out of God. Prayer is a time we spend in fellowship with God. However, petitions (asking God to do things) is only one type of prayer we Christians pray. The Bible says "Do not be anxious about anything, but in
- [Q&A: Responding To Arguments Against Eternal Security](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-responding-to-arguments-agains/) - Hello Evan, I came across your series of 3 posts regarding your model of eternal security. Unfortunately, I don't have a google account (nor do I wish to) so I cannot respond directly via your blog comment section. I understand you do not reply directly to email questions either so I guess that leaves us
- [I Haven't Met My Wife, But I Already Know I Love Her](https://cerebralfaith.net/i-havent-met-my-wife-but-i-already-know/) - I am not currently dating anyone and I have never been married, yet I already know that the I love my future wife very, very much. "How can that possibly be?" you might ask, "How can you love someone you don't even know." It's true that I haven't met my wife yet. I don't know
- [5 Reasons Christian Apologists Shouldn't Fixate On Evolution](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-reasons-christian-apologists-shouldn/) - Evolution, the theory that all life emerged from a branching "evolutionary tree" with a single celled organism being the species that started the whole process 3.5 billion years ago, is frequently the subject of heated debate between Christians and Non-Christians. Young Earth Creationists like Ken Ham, Old Earth Creationists like Hugh Ross, and Intelligent Design
- [5 Arguments For The Existence Of Free Will](https://cerebralfaith.net/5-arguments-for-existence-of-free-wi/) - Free Will is a topic debated among Christians and even some non-Christians. The Christians who affirm that men have free will in the libertarian sense are Arminians, Molinists, and Open Theists. Christians who deny free will in the libertarian sense generally fall into the Calvinist camp. I have argued elsewhere that libertarian free will is
- [On The Importance Of Having Faith When You Pray](https://cerebralfaith.net/on-importance-of-having-faith-when-you/) - "But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord." - James 1:6-7 This passage from scripture says that when we pray for something, we need
- [Is An Evidence Based Belief On Shaky Grounds?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-evidence-based-belief-on-shaky/) - "If you were talked into your belief, you can be talked out of it". This is what I read from one theologian in a book a while back. I cannot remember who said it, but that was a direct quote from the book. I think it came from one of the volumes of A.W Tozer's
- [An E-Mail Correspondence With A Skeptic - Part 2](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-e-mail-correspondence-with-skeptic_25/) - Introduction: This is the second of a two-part blog post. This two-part blog post contain a copy/paste e-mail conversation that I had with a non-Christian. I asked him for permission if I could publish our conversation to my blog for the edification of unbelievers who are struggling with the same objections he is, and also to incite
- [An E-Mail Correspondence With A Skeptic - Part 1](https://cerebralfaith.net/an-e-mail-correspondence-with-skeptic_24/) - Introduction: I received an e-mail from a former Christian. Instead of it being a Q and A article, I decided to post the entire conversation I had with him. Below is the back and forth that we had. With his permission, I have posted this conversation, and I hope it helps unbelievers who struggle with
- [Q&A: On Molinism and Prayer For The Lost](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-on-molinism-and-prayer-for-los/) - Hello Evan, In your post titled, "What Is The Point In Praying For Someone's Salvation?" you explained how on Arminianism and Calvinism, such a prayer is useless. On Arminianism, God is already doing everything he can to save the person without overpowering their free will. On Calvinism, God has already elected specific individuals before creating
- [Q&A: Questions About Faith's Relation To Reason](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-questions-about-faiths-relation-to/) - Greetings Evan, I have two questions for you: Is faith in God ultimately grounded in reason, and if so, is that a problem (theological speaking, that is)? For the sake of my question, I'll use the following definition of faith from the Oxford English Living Dictionary: Complete trust or confidence in someone or something. And
- [What Is Soft Libertarian Free Will?](https://cerebralfaith.net/what-is-soft-libertarian-free-wi/) - Today, I'm going to write a pretty short article explaining what Soft Libertarian Free Will is. Tim Stratton called it "Limited Libertarian Free Will", but in his book Salvation and Sovereignty: A Molinist Approach, Kenneth Keathley calls it "Soft Libertarian Free Will". But as William Shakespeare said; "A rose by another name is just as sweet."
- [If Jealousy Is A Sin, How Can God Be Jealous?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-jealousy-is-sin-how-can-god-be/) - One recurring objection that non-Christians keep bringing up is the issue of God's jealousy. The Bible clearly teaches that jealousy is a sin. Galatians 5:26 says, “Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.”. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth, "For you are still of the flesh. For while there
- [Q and A: Questions About Evolution, Adam and Eve, and Accomodationalism](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-questions-about-evolution-ada/) - I've read some of your blog posts on evolution and after becoming very interested in the issue a couple of years ago I'm starting to become interested again. I know you're a sharp fellow, so maybe you could help me with a few questions. 1. What are your thoughts on Genesis 3:20 and Acts 17:26,
- [Teach Your Children Apologetics](https://cerebralfaith.net/teach-your-children-apologetics/) - In this day and age of digital communications, the entire planet has become a small village. I can literally have real time conversations with people in other states and even other countries whether through online messaging social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter or on video chat programs like Google Hangouts and Skype. I
- [Why The Word Is Not Merely "a" god](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-word-is-not-merely-god/) - Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe that Jesus is God, but instead the arch angel St. Michael. Their own translation of The Bible known as The New World Translation usually translates John 1:1 as "In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God and the word was a god" instead of what all the
- [Is Molinism Eisegesis?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-molinism-eiesegesis/) - A while back, a fellow blogger and friend of mine unfortunately renounced Molinism and is now a full blown determinist. He adhered to Calvinist soteriology prior to this, but he had a middle knowledge view of divine providence and free will. But now he doesn't even hold to that. I don't care to
- [Q and A: Is Molinism Monergistic?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-and-is-molinism-monergistic/) - I'm actively learning about Molinism and when in a small debate with a calvinism they asked me if God or man is the terminus of Salvation? I thought it adequate to state that Molinism is Monergistic. They did not like that answer and even told me it was Synergistic. I provided the Ambulatory Model bY
- [Essential Doctrines VS. Non-Essential Doctrines](https://cerebralfaith.net/essential-doctrines-vs-non-essentia/) - Truth is important for the Christian. It's important that the Christian have correct doctrine. The Bible says "until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed
- [Answering Questions About Demons](https://cerebralfaith.net/answering-questions-about-demons/) - Demons are a part of the Christian Worldview. They are talked about in various places in scripture, particularly in The New Testament. Isaiah 14:12-15 and Ezekiel 28:13-19 describe the fall of Satan and the other fallen angels, saying that they were once good angels who loved and served God, but became corrupted by pride and
- [The Bible: Simple Enough For A Child, Profound Enough For The Scholar](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-bible-simple-enough-for-child/) - I recently watched a debate between my friend Zachary Lawson and Kent Hovind. The topic was on "Is Evolution Compatible With The Bible?" I was excited for this debate as creation and evolution is one of the theological subjects I'm heavily interested in. I was on Zach's side, as anyone who's been following this blog will
- [Addressing Some Common Misconceptions Of Molinism](https://cerebralfaith.net/addressing-some-common-misconceptions/) - Molinism (named after the 16th-century priest Luis De Molina) is, in my opinion, one of the best theological systems I have ever come across. It solves so many issues; primarily, it reconciles the meticulous providence of God taught in The Bible with a genuine human free will. But more than harmonizing God's sovereignty and human
- [Unless The Father Draws Them](https://cerebralfaith.net/unless-father-draws-the/) - Total Depravity teaches that all people are inherently sinful and that we have a sin nature that affects every single aspect of our being. Sin affects our emotions, our bodies, our intellect, and even our wills. With respect to that last part, the doctrine affirms that people are inherently unable to come to God of
- [Does Being A Christian Suck?](https://cerebralfaith.net/does-being-christian-suck/) - I recently read a comment online from someone asking if being a Christian sucked. The various comments in the comment section were of Christians telling this person how being a Christian did not suck and why they felt that way. The original poster never actually explained in the comment section why he even had a suspicion
- [The Can/Won't Model Of Eternal Security: Part 3 - Conclusion](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-canwont-model-of-eternal-security_10/) - This is part 3 in a blog post series on the question "Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation?" In part 1 of this series, I made a powerful case from The Bible that the true believer has the ability to forsake Christ and "lose" his salvation. In part 2, I made a powerful case from
- [The Can/Won't Model Of Eternal Security: Part 2 - The Case For OSAS](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-canwont-model-of-eternal-security_9/) - This is part 2 in a series on apostasy and eternal security. In the previous blog post, I explained that I had wrestled with the question "Can A Christian Lose Their Salvation?" for many, many years. I was torn on the issue because both sides seemed to present such overwhelmingly powerful cases for their position.
- [The Can/Won't Model Of Eternal Security: Part 1 -- The Case For Apostasy](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-canwont-model-of-eternal-security/) - Can a Christian lose their salvation? This is a question that I did not know how to answer for many, many years. I would listen to Arminians argue back and forth, using scripture passages supporting their own view. I thought both sides made really compelling cases for their positions, so I was in a state
- [Responding To The Double Payment Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/responding-to-double-payment-argumen/) - The Double Payment Argument is that if God died for all people, yet sends some people to Hell, then that means that their sins were paid for twice, once in hell, and once by Christ on the cross. This, the Calvinist argues, entails that God has acted unjustly because God has punished sin more than
- [Being A Good Apologist Is More Than Knowing The Right Answers](https://cerebralfaith.net/being-good-apologist-is-more-than/) - 1 Peter 3:15 says to "Always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have, yet do so with gentleness and respect" and 2 Corinthians 10:5 says "We demolish argument and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and
- [Q & A: Did Jesus Really Sacrifice Anything Since He Was Resurrected?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-did-jesus-really-sacrifice-anything/) - pls an agonist friend of mine sent me this, what do you think Let's talk about Jesus' 'sacrifice'... Apart from the obvious highly improbability of his asexual conception, the utter ridiculousness of the magical grocery multiplication and his alleged resurrection, another thing I find really interesting about the story of the Jesus character in the
- [Reasons To Accept The Gospels' Traditional Authorship](https://cerebralfaith.net/reasons-to-accept-gospels-traditiona/) - Non-Christian scholars and laypeople alike have argued that we don't know or can't know who wrote the gospels. The gospels are written anonymously, they say, and the names attached to them as we find them in our English Bibles were given to them as a scheme to make their content more credible. After all, if
- [Why Can't God Just Forgive Us?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-cant-god-just-forgive-us/) - Some non-Christians, mainly Muslims, ask why Jesus had to die on the cross in order for us to be saved. "Why does God need a blood sacrifice?" They'll ask, "Why can't He simply just forgive us?" This objection was recently posed to me in the comment section in another article in this sight. This fellow
- [A Beautiful Case For God](https://cerebralfaith.net/a-beautiful-case-for-god/) - Introduction: Recently, I read a book called "Does Beauty Point To God?: Investigation By An Ex-Atheist Scientist" by John Kinson. The book argued for the existence of God using the existence of objective beauty in the universe. I was glad to get this book as The Argument From Beauty is one of the natural theology
- [Is The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Coherent?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-doctrine-of-incarnation-coheren/) - Reasons' Greetings, everyone! Merry Christmas! I thought now would be a good time to write a blog post on what this holiday is all about: The incarnation of God Almighty. Christmas is the time we celebrate the birth of the God-Man Jesus. The Bible says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
- [Q & A: The Can/Won't Model and 1 Timothy 1:18-20](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-the-canwont-model-and-1-timothy-118-20/) - Hello Evan, Your can/won’t model has been extremely helpful to me. I had a question about what you make of Hymenaeus and Alexander in 1 Tim 1:18-20. That text to me sounds like they had a genuine faith, not a demon faith, that they then “shipwrecked.” The context compels me to interpret it this way
- [3 Syllogistic Arguments For Jesus' Deity](https://cerebralfaith.net/3-syllogistic-arguments-for-jesus-deity/) - The Bible teaches in a variety of ways that Jesus Christ is God incarnate. In some places, The Bible couldn't possibly be more explicit, and it boggles the mind how anyone who takes scripture as the inspired word of God could avoid any conclusion other than that Jesus is divine. In other places, it's more
- [Molinism T-Shirts You Can Buy In The Actual World](https://cerebralfaith.net/molinism-t-shirts-you-can-buy-in-actua/) - So, my friend Chan Arnett sent me one of the novelty T-shirts that he's been selling on Amazon.com. The theme of these T-shirts is Molinism and he's been advertising them in the Facebook Group "Molinism - Official Page" You can get yourself an awesome Molinist shirt for a reasonable price of 20 bucks if you go
- [If Molinism Is True, Why Doesn't God Use His Middle Knowledge To Save Everyone?](https://cerebralfaith.net/if-molinism-is-true-why-doesnt-god-use/) - If you've been following this blog, then you probably know what Molinism is. If you haven't, you probably still know what Molinism is if you're a reader of FreeThinking Ministries' blog posts or if you are a big William Lane Craig fan. If you're none of the above, see Tim Stratton's blog post "What In
- [Why Does John 1 Lack The Definite Article?](https://cerebralfaith.net/why-does-john-1-lack-definite-article/) - This article is a guest post written by my friend and fellow blogger Johnny Sakr of FreeThinking Ministries (www.freethinkingministries.com). He has allowed me (Evan Minton) to post this here with permission. In this post, Sakr refutes the argument of the Jehovah's Witnesses that the lack of the definite article in John 1 proves that Jesus
- [Q&A: Why Does God Consist Of Only Three Persons?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-why-does-god-consist-of-only-three/) - Evan, thank you for taking the time to post my letter and reply in detail on your blog. I think we're both in agreement that a defense of God's morality requires more than just an appeal to his sovereignty, and so you've explained some other arguments for why God is good and my hypothetical "Bad
- [Q&A: On Being Able To Justify The Ontological Argument's First Premise Once More](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-on-being-able-to-justify-ontologica/) - Evan, You're probably tired of hearing from me about the Ontological Argument by now. I hope the fact that we hold different worldviews isn't getting in the way of our examining this argument on its own merits. Even if this one argument doesn't withstand scrutiny (and after scrutinizing it, I don't think it does), there
- [Miraculous Intervention and Scientific Reliability](https://cerebralfaith.net/miraculous-intervention-and-scientific/) - A while back, I saw a screenshot of a conversation between Luke Barnes and an atheist who question Barnes' scientific credentials, with Barnes mentioning that PhD. in Astronomy from Cambridge, has as a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Astronomy (ETH) and the University Of Sydney. Luke Barnes also co-authored a book with
- [Q&A: About Christianity and Furries](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-about-christianity-and-furries/) - Image Credit: hornet.fullcoll.edu Dr. Minton, Thank you for your ministry. I have recently discovered your blog and have been reading your blog articles on my way to work on the bus and find them very interesting. I had a question that I think you might be able to answer. A friend of mine recently told me
- [Reading The Bible Among Other Things](https://cerebralfaith.net/reading-bible-among-other-things/) - So you’ve just gone to the bookstore and got a stack of books you really want to dive into. However, you are also a dedicated Christian who wants to nourish yourself on God’s holy, inspired, inerrant word. But, there are only so many hours in the day and the free time you do have is,
- [How To Become a Self-Taught Apologist](https://cerebralfaith.net/how-to-become-self-taught-apologis/) - You've just been introduced to Christian Apologetics and have discovered that there are many good arguments and evidence that demonstrate that Christianity is true. However, you're not sure that you're smart enough, have enough free time, or have the financial means to learn this material yourself so that you can be a better witness for
- [Q&A: Are Omniscience And Libertarian Free Will Incompatible?](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-is-omniscience-and-libertarian-free/) - Greetings. Can you respond to my syllogism that I think demonstrates that free will is incompatible with omniscience? Premise 1. An Omniscient God and knows all things including future human decisions. Premise 2. Free Will requires that we are able to choose more then one option ("I choose A but I could have chosen B
- [Q&A: Two E-Mail Questions About The Ontological Argument](https://cerebralfaith.net/q-two-e-mail-questions-abou/) - Hey, Evan. The Lord Jesus bless you greatly. First of all, I congratulate you for your apologetic and philosophical work both for general Christianity and for the Arminian and Molinist visions. Although I am a Christian and the ontological argument seems excellent to me, I have some discomforts that I hope you can help me
- [Is It Okay For Protestants To Pray The Rosary?](https://cerebralfaith.net/is-it-okay-for-protestants-to-pray/) - The Rosary is a necklace with many beads on it and it has a crucifix down at the very bottom. But far from being a mere fashion accessory for Christians, the rosary is actually a tool used by Roman Catholics in prayer. Catholics run their fingers across the beads to count the prayers which comprise
- [Can God Choose Whether Or Not He Loves Us?](https://cerebralfaith.net/can-god-choose-whether-or-not-he-loves/) - Picture from https://yies1.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/god-really-is-love/ One objection I sometimes hear from atheists and Calvinists is that if free will is a prerequisite to love, and if God can’t choose whether or not to love us (because His very nature is love) then does that mean that God’s love for us is not genuine since He doesn’t have
- [Do People Perish For Lack Of Evidence?](https://cerebralfaith.net/do-people-perish-for-lack-of-evidence/) - I’ve done a lot of study the past couple of weeks on the doctrine of Hell because I was studying for a debate with Counter Apologist and another atheist on the Therefore God Exists podcast (click on the "My Video Debates" link on the sidebar if you want to watch it). My studies inspired me
- [Myths About Homosexuality](https://cerebralfaith.net/myths-about-homosexuality/) - There are myths about homosexuality floating about. These myths are perpetuated by both Christians and non-Christians alike. I’m going to express my views on three of these common homosexual myths. I am loathe to talk about homosexuality where non-Christians are probably going to hear or read about it. It’s such an extremely sensitive topic that
- [The Absurdity Of Life Without God](https://cerebralfaith.net/the-absurdity-of-life-without-god/) - "What is the meaning of life?" some people will sometimes ask? "What is my purpose here in this world?" people will ask. "Why am I here?" The answers to these questions will differ greatly depending on what what kind of worldview you hold. Are you an atheist? Are you a Christian theist? What are you?
- [God's 2 Universe Creation Plan](https://cerebralfaith.net/gods-2-universe-creation-plan/) - When giving a Cosmological or Teleological argument, skeptics will sometimes object that a perfect God would not create such an imperfect universe. One thing they'll point out is that the universe is running out of usable energy. There is decay in the universe. Why would God be so incompetant to not make a universe that

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- [Creation and Evolution (subsections)](https://cerebralfaith.net/creation-and-evolution-subsections/) - Interpreting Genesis 1In this section, you will find blog posts in which I defend the interpretation of Genesis 1 that I think is most likely correct. It's called "The Cosmic Temple Inaguration View" or "The Functional Origins View". Animal Death Before The FallA lot of Christians object to any form of old earth creationism because
- [Arguments For God's Existence (Subsections)](https://cerebralfaith.net/arguments-for-gods-existence-subsections/) - The Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThis argument demonstrates that a transcendent Creator brought the universe into being out of nothing a finite time ago, relying on the fact of the law of causality and scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning. The Moral ArgumentThis argument demonstrates that the existence of objective moral values and duties point
- [Responses To Atheist Arguments (subsections)](https://cerebralfaith.net/responses-to-atheist-arguments-subsections/) - The Problem Of EvilIf God, why evil? Is God all powerful but not all good? Is God all good but not all powerful? If God is both, then why does evil exist? Criticisms Of ChristiansChristians are just a bunch of hypocrites, right? Christians are homophobic, right? Christians are opposed to science, right? Divine Hiddenness The
- [About This Blog](https://cerebralfaith.net/about-this-blog/) - Welcome to Cerebral Faith. I am Evan Minton, and this is my blog on Christian Apologetics and theology. What is Christian Apologetics? Christian Apologetics is the practice of defending the Christian faith. It is the practice of defending established Christian doctrine. There are two kinds of apologetics: offensive apologetics and defensive apologetics. The former seeks

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