Objections & responses
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat are the best objections to Pascal’s Wager? and why do they all fall short?
The living wager: You should believe in Christianity if there is a fair chance it’s true
Reading Time: 15 minutesThis is a strengthened version of Pascal’s wager which typically has said that “even if there is the smallest chance Christianity is true, you should believe it”. This wager places the value that if Christianity is at least 50% true, you should follow it. The wager can be summed up Read more…
Did Paul have temporal lobe epilepsy?
Reading Time: 6 minutesSo I was asked about the possibility of Paul having TLE. Now with anything, a mere assertion doesn’t make it more plausible, so what is the case and response to this objection?
Why was Pilate surprised Jesus died so quickly?
Reading Time: 5 minutesJesus died on the cross, and he did it quickly. This surprised Pilate, could there be a problem in the crucifixion account?
If God does not exist, then we have no ultimate meaning, value or purpose
Reading Time: 13 minutesWho am I? Why am I here? Am I here for a reason? Does life end at the grave? If so what does that mean? Am I intentionally created? Do I have any meaning? Do I have any purpose? Do I really have any value? Can I live happily and consistent with my views?
Cumulative case for God’s existence: There are plenty of evidences for God’s existence
Reading Time: 7 minutesIt is worth thinking of the arguments for God’s existence as a cumulative case. Even if an argument is not strong independently, or it doesn’t feel as strong to you, with others it will be stronger like a law case, the more witnesses, the more evidence, the stronger the conviction Read more…
God is the best explanation of objective moral values and duties
Reading Time: 14 minutesA question: Can we be good without belief in God? Well yes, that’s perfectly possible. But can we be good without God’s existence? This is a question about the nature of moral values. Are the values we hold to, which guide our lives formed from just social conventions, like driving Read more…
Christianity and it’s relationship to properly basic beliefs and the Holy Spirit
Reading Time: 23 minutesWhere am I going with this one? It doesn’t sound like the other arguments… Well it is and it isn’t. Many Christians have talked about the Holy Spirit that moment they knew when to become a Christian and to sceptics and Christians alike, this can sometimes feel vague or not Read more…
God is the best explanation on why there is something rather than nothing
Reading Time: 11 minutesIntroduction G. W. Leibniz the codiscoverer of calculus and a formidable intellectual of his time in the eighteenth-century Europe, wrote: “The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?” (Aka why does anything at all exist in the first place?) Leibniz came to the Read more…
God Is the Best Explanation of the Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life
Reading Time: 20 minutesThe Ancient Greek philosophers devoted countless thoughts to the order that pervades the universe, such a place as Plato’s academy spent much time dwelling on such questions. Plato stated that there are two things that lead men to believe in God: the argument from the existence of the soul, and Read more…