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So,
here are the articles dealing with intellectual questions about
the nature of rational belief in general and the evidential
basis of the Christian faith in particular.
A.1
Do you have to trash your brain to be a Christian?
Loving God with all your mind and the unique nature of
humans
A.2
Is it wrong to ask questions about God?
Does God expect you just to believe?
Should you simply get in your closet, suppress your
questions, and pray for faith?
A.3
Why isn’t there a history of Christian scholarship
giving an intellectual basis for faith? Why haven’t Christians used reasonable arguments for faith.
A.4
If faith is so compatible with reason, why aren’t
there any contemporary Christian scholars who stand out in the
academic world?
A.5
If reason is compatible with faith, why does that Bible
just assume God rather than giving evidence for God.
B.1
Is knowledge without faith possible?
The necessity of faith:
the beginning of knowledge is to know that one does not
know anything with absolute certainty
B.2
What are the limitations of the two basic methods by
which we verify the things that we know?
What weaknesses in the inductive and deductive methods
make them incapable of providing certainty?
B.3
Why and when is faith unavoidable?
Why and when are all humans regularly forced to make
choices that are based on faith?
Why is atheism an irrational belief?
C.1
Does the necessity of faith legitimize the assumption
of any faith system? Are
all leaps of faith--no matter how absurd--equivalent, or is
there a difference between leaps in content and leaps in
methodology?
C.2
What basic beliefs are shared by all humans as methods
for discovering the truth in the world?
C.3
What qualifies some methods to be universally accepted
on faith as basic methods to be used in our search for truth?
C.4
Using basic beliefs as methods for discovering truth,
how do we tell which faiths are reasonable or silly?
C.5
When discriminating between faiths, and there is a
conflict between logic and evidence, which is most important?
C.6
What two sciences can teach us how to weigh and handle
evidence?
D.1
What are common logical and historical fallacies used
in defending belief systems? -- An Overview
D.2
What completely irrational fallacies are used to defend
belief systems?
D.3
What fallacies of mishandling evidence are used to
defend belief systems?
D.4
What logical fallacies of the heart are used to defend
belief systems?
D.5
What logical historical fallacies are used to defend
belief systems?
D.6
Wild goose chases about belief: Is the trinity
irrational? Can God make a rock so big that He can't lift it
up?
D.7
Wild goose chases:
Why doesn't God just show up in my backyard or answer a
specific prayer?
D.8
Why not find the truth by trying religions on one at a
time?
D.9
Why consider Christianity first as a religion?
Western Civilization
D.10
Why consider Christianity first as a religion?
The methods that various religions use to vindicate
their claims
E.1
What are the three stages of evidence for belief that
Jesus is God?--An Overview
E.2
What philosophical evidence exists that the universe
was created?
E.3
What evidence from physics and cosmology exists that
the universe was created?
E.4
What evidence is there that the creator of the universe
is personal?
E.5
What evidence is there from physics' anthropic
principle that the creator of the universe is personal?
E.6
What evidence exists from biology's anthropic principle
that the creator of the universe is personal?
E.7
What evidence is there from the human mind that the
creator of the universe is personal?
E.8
What evidence exists in the wisdom of the Bible that
the creator of the universe is personal?
E.9
What evidence exists in Bible prophecies that the
creator of the universe is personal
E.10
How does one recognize legitimate prophecy?
E.11
What evidence is there in the Jewish people that the
creator of the universe is personal?
E.12
What evidence is there from history that Jesus Christ
is God?
E.13
Isn't history an unscientific way of knowing anything
including that Jesus Christ is God?
E.14
What is the scientific attitude for a historian
considering Jesus Christ?
E.15
How is Christ unique as a historical figure?
E.16
How do we even know that Jesus Christ actually lived?
E.17
Isn't it circular reasoning to use the Bible to confirm
that Jesus Christ is real?
E.18
Isn't the Bible just a bunch of myths that grew over
time?
E.19
Isn't the Bible just made up of the documents preferred
by the winning side?
E.20
Even if the new testament was written by those it
claims as its authors, how do we know they accurately recorded
history?
E.21
Don't the writers of the four gospels contradict one
another?
E.22
How reliable are the gospel writers in the history they
recorded?
E.23
Even if the new testament is accurate about historical
facts, couldn't it still be wrong in its conclusions about who
Jesus is?
E.24
If belief is based on historical evidence, where does
faith come in?
E.25
What about silly arguments for faith like Pascal's
wager?
F.1
What did Jesus really teach?
He taught that it's all about love!
F.2
Why are you here?
Why did God make you?
God is love, and he made you to love you.
F.3
What does God expect of you?
That you, like Him, be a creature that loves.
F.4
If God is love, why doesn't He just forgive people
without asking for anything?
Why must God be just?
F.5
Can't God do anything?
F.6
If God is love, why did He kill people in the past?
F.7
If God is love, why is there a hell?
F.8
Why did Jesus come into the world?
To enable God to love you even though you have chosen
not to love.
F.9
Why did Jesus have to die?
To resolve the conflict between love and justice.
F.10
What does Jesus demand of you?
Everything that would prevent you from loving.
F.11
How can you die to everything?
F.12
If Jesus is love, why the emphasis that we have to know
the truth?
F.13
What does Jesus give to you?
Everything you need in order to be a creature who
loves.
F.14
Why does Jesus expect you to be a part of a community,
the church? In order to create a community of love.
G.1
THE DUST OF DEATH:
how does unbelief hurt human life (an overview)?
G.2
How does unbelief hurt our sense of significance?
THE ONTOLOGICAL CHASM
G.3
How does unbelief hurt our view of reality # 1?
THE PHILOSOPHICAL CHASM.
The quagmire of modern philosophy
G.4
How does unbelief hurt our view of reality # 2?
THE METAPHYSICAL CHASM
G.5
How does unbelief hurt our moral functioning?
THE MORAL CHASM
G.6
How does unbelief hurt our basis for knowledge?
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHASM
G.7
How does unbelief hurt our legal theory?
THE JURISPRUDENTIAL CHASM
G.8
How does unbelief hurt our foundation for human rights?
THE HUMAN RIGHTS CHASM
G.9
How does unbelief undermine cultural progress?
THE CULTURAL CHASM
G.10
How does unbelief undermine constitutional law?
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHASM
G.11
How does unbelief undermine our political institutions?
THE POLITICAL CHASM
H.1
PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
With So Much Evil In the
World, How Could God Be All Loving and All Powerful?
How could a loving God allow a 9-11 to happen?
H.2
PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
Didn't Anthony Flew's
Wisdom Parable Show How Silly Belief In God Is?
H.3 PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
Didn't David Hume Disprove
Miracles Once and For All?
H.4
PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
Didn't Logical Positivism
Show That Religious Statements Are Philosophically
Meaningless?
H.5
PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
Didn't Hegel and Marx show
that religion is the tool, respectively, of the weak to
control the strong and of the bourgeoisie to control the
proletariat?
H.6
PHILOSOPHICAL CHALLENGE:
Hasn't existentialism established that each individual
has a right to determine his or her own truth?
H.7
SCIENTISM'S CHALLENGE:
Doesn't modern science
render religious belief to
be archaic?
H.8
SCIENTISM'S CHALLENGE:
Hasn't Christianity always
opposed scientific development?
H.9
SCIENTISM'S CHALLENGE: Does not evolution disprove the
Bible?
H.10
SCIENTISM'S CHALLENGE:
Doesn't the scientific
approach require a purely mechanistic view of mankind and the
universe?
H.11
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHALLENGE:
Hasn't modern psychology shown that religion is a
crutch for the weak? Or
a result of transference of one's psychological need for a
father figure?
H.12
THE LEFT'S CHALLENGE:
Isn't Christianity responsible for most of the
intolerance in our culture?
Are not the Christian roots of our culture responsible
for most of the evils in our history such as slavery and
racism?
H.13
THE LEFT'S CHALLENGE:
Isn't it evil to try to exalt Western Christian culture
above any other culture?
H.14
THE LEFT'S CHALLENGE:
Hasn't it been demonstrated that the search for truth
is an illusion--that truth really is controlled by political
power?
H.15
EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE:
Are values not merely an expression of our feelings
that result from our experiences?
H.16
EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE:
Is it not irrational for Christianity to condemn sex
when it is simply a physical drive?
H.17
EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: How can Christianity tell people
to get married without their knowing if they are sexually
compatible?
H.18
EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: How can Christianity dare
condemn homosexuals when they are born that way with no power
to change?
H.19
THE CHALLENGE FROM WORLD RELIGIONS:
Aren't all religions really saying the same thing?
Isn't exclusivity
rather arrogant?
H.20
THE CHALLENGE FROM WORLD RELIGIONS:
Is Christianity unique among world religions?
H.21
THEOLOGY'S CHALLENGE:
If the Bible is reliable, why do modern theologians
question it?
H.22
THEOLOGY'S CHALLENGE:
Isn't God beyond rational
or linguistic description?
H.23
THEOLOGY'S CHALLENGE:
Doesn't the Bible just assume faith?
Doesn't evidence offend God?
H.24
THE CHALLENGE FROM THE CHURCH:
Doesn't the hypocrisy and division of the church
disprove the validity of Christianity?
I.1
Weren't the founding fathers of our nation deists
rather than Christian theists?
I.2
Weren't the pilgrims and other settlers of this country
fleeing religious oriented governments?
I.3
Aren't the founding documents of our country intended
to create a totally secular government?
I.4
Doesn't the first amendment require a wall of
separation between religion and all our public institutions?
J.1
How is Pascal's Wager
misunderstood and Misrepresented in
modern academia?
J.2
What is the wager itself and is it intellectually
respectable?
J.3
After looking at the evidence, do you have the courage
to make a decision based on truth rather than merely going
with the flow?
Democrats are
fools who hate democracy, Christianity, and freedom of speech.
Hillary
Clinton is a Marxist and a liar who wants to destroy America.
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