Does the Bible speak about reality or only about appearances? Sometimes, to avoid conflict with alleged scientific facts, it is claimed that the Bible uses phenomenal (or phenomenological) language, describing things as they appear from our human, earth-bound perspective rather than being factually correct in a more scientific sense.
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The purpose of this blog is to promote a Christian worldview, based on the Bible as God's inerrant and fully authoritative Word, in accordance with the Reformed Confessions.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Canadian Reformed MPs Approve Pro-LGBT Bill C-4
How many Canadian Members of Parliament, or Senators, are willing to stand up for Christian values against the pro-homosexual agenda? NONE. Not a one. Not even the Canadian Reformed MPs Arnold Viersen and Tako van Popta!
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Two Free E-Books Available
I have just updated my book The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math, and Meaning. At the same time, I converted it into an e-book, available (free) in pdf format here. This is available also in epub format, but for some reason google.drive can't handle epub, so that you should send me an email if you want the epub file.
Friday, September 3, 2021
What is the Genuine Reformed View of Science?
Monday, July 19, 2021
The Absurdity of a Solid Dome
According to many Bible scholars, people of the Ancient Near East (ANE) believed that the sky was a fixed solid dome - in which the Sun, moon, and stars were embedded - supported by pillars, or mountains, at the ends of a flat earth. The Israelites are said to have shared this erroneous ANE cosmology, which is allegedly the underlying idea behind the "firmament" or “expanse” (raqia) of Genesis 1.
Monday, May 31, 2021
God and Necessary Truths
Christianity maintains that only God is self-existent. He is the sovereign Creator, who freely creates everything else. God exists necessarily, in that it is impossible for God not to exist, God's non-existence is inconceivable. The created universe, in contrast, is merely contingent, in that it could have been different, and need not have existed at all. But what about abstract objects, such as the laws of logic and math, which seem to be necessary truths? How do they relate to God?
Monday, May 24, 2021
Canadian Reformed MP stands with LGBT
A few days ago on May 17, the so-called "International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia", Tako van Popta, a local Canadian Reformed Member of Parliament (MP), made a public Facebook post affirming that he was "standing with" Canadian LGBTQ2 (LesbianGayBisexualTransgenderQueer...) communities.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Review: In the Beginning
An important book, In the Beginning: Listening to Genesis 1 and 2 (2021, Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 371 pages) has just been published by Dr. Cornelis van Dam, emeritus professor of Old Testament at Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Ontario.
Monday, February 15, 2021
Why is There Something?
Why is there something? There could have been nothing - no physical objects or laws, no conscious beings, no thoughts, no universe at all. So, why is there something, rather than nothing?
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
How big tech became big brother
A relevant video by David Wood (found on the Triablogue site), raising concerns that big tech (Youtube, Google, Twitter, Amazon, etc.), like mainstream media, is increasingly censoring Christian views while promoting leftist ideology.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Useful Sites
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Finding Adam
The Dutch scholar Dr. Willem J. Ouweneel defends the traditional Biblical Adam, against attempts to combine Adam with human evolution, in his recent book Adam, Where Are You? —And Why This Matters: A Theological Evaluation of the Evolutionist Hermeneutic (Jordan Station, Canada: Paideia Press, 2018, 480 pages).
Friday, September 18, 2020
Hijacking John Calvin – More Pro Rege Polemics
A few months ago,
in my post Pro
Rege Polemics, I discussed a dispute about science and the Bible
in Pro Rege, a Dordt University publication. Since then two more
contributions continue the debate.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Seeing Through Smoke
Monday, July 20, 2020
Some thoughts on Dr Packer
Friday, July 17, 2020
How Should Christians View Origins?
Monday, June 15, 2020
Review: Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins
Friday, June 12, 2020
Should Christians Support "Black Lives Matter"?
Monday, May 25, 2020
Should We Still Cast Lots?
Monday, May 18, 2020
Did Solomon Write Ecclesiastes?
Ecclesiastes: The Advent Congregation, The Study, 2007] asserts that “all commentators agree that Solomon could not have written this book.”