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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, November 24, 2020
Useful Sites
Here are some sites that I find useful and check regularly. Please inform me of any dead links, or sites that should be added.
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
Here is a new book very relevant to recent events: Seeing Through Smoke: Living the Truth in an Age of Deception (2020), by Dr Jon Garvey. This book (pdf) can be downloaded free.
Monday, July 20, 2020
Some thoughts on Dr Packer
James Innell Packer recently died on July 17, 2020, at age 93. He was one of the most influential theologians of the last century, perhaps best known for his two earliest books, Fundamentalism and the Word of God (1958) and Knowing God (1973). He was also general editor of the English Standard Version of the Bible.
Friday, July 17, 2020
How Should Christians View Origins?
We have just revised our booklet How Should Christians View Origins? and converted it into an e-book. Available for free.
Monday, June 15, 2020
Review: Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins
The Creation Without
Compromise site has just published an extensive review by Dr. Wes Bredenhof of
the theistic evolutionist book Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins:
Cosmology, Geology, and Biology in Christian Perspective (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2018. Hardcover,
659 pages).
Friday, June 12, 2020
Should Christians Support "Black Lives Matter"?
Recently there have been
many mass demonstrations against alleged police racism and violence against
blacks. Much of this is organized by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Many Christians naively support BLM, being unaware of its unchristian nature,
and of the pertinent facts concerning blacks and violence. Here are some useful links providing important
information, and analysis of the underlying problems.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Should We Still Cast Lots?
Some Reformed churches sometimes use the lot to help in the election of office-bearers.
Monday, May 18, 2020
Did Solomon Write Ecclesiastes?
Some time ago, when our
church’s Men's Society studied Ecclesiastes, there was considerable
debate as to who wrote it. Traditionally, it seemed clear that the author was
Solomon. Yet the study guide used [Rev. M.J.C. Blok, “
Ecclesiastes: The Advent Congregation, The Study, 2007] asserts that “all commentators agree that Solomon could not have written this book.”
Ecclesiastes: The Advent Congregation, The Study, 2007] asserts that “all commentators agree that Solomon could not have written this book.”
Friday, April 24, 2020
Pro Rege Polemics
The
last few issues of Pro Rege contain an interesting debate regarding the
relative authority of Scripture versus science. Should science cause us to
modify our reading of Scripture? Or should we base our science on the plain
sense of Scripture?
Monday, April 20, 2020
Theological Cost of Evolution
Here
is a good review in the latest issue of Themelios by Hans Madueme on
a recent attempt to reconcile evolution with Christian theology.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Why Believe Christianity?
How can we convince an unbeliever that he should believe Christianity? An excellent book on that topic is "Why Should I Believe Christianity?" (2016, Christian Focus Publications; Fearn, Scotland, 230 pages) by Dr. James N. Anderson, who specializes in philosophical theology and apologetics at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
Light-speed, Convention, and Creation
In recent years the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention cosmology of Dr. Jason Lisle has become more popular among creationists. At the 2018 International Conference on Creationism T.G. Tenev, J. Baumgardner, and M.F. Horstemeyer presented a model that was very similar. Dr. John Hartnett seems to have abandoned has own earlier Carmeli-based cosmology, and has posted a number of articles promoting the ASC as the current best solution to the
distant-starlight problem (i.e., how we can see distant stars if they were created recently).
How feasible is the ASC model?
How feasible is the ASC model?
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Rapidly Matured Creation
If
the universe is young, how can we see light from galaxies billions of
lights away? A simple solution is that of Rapidly
Matured Creation.
This was discussed, in passing, in my previous posts
Is
Mature Creation Deceptive?
and
Cosmology
at Creationist Convention. For convenience,
that material is summarized here in a separate post.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Why (so much) Evil?
A
major challenge to Christianity is the so-called Problem
of Evil:
A perfectly good God would want
to prevent evil, and a perfectly powerful God could
prevent evil; why then is there so much evil in the world?
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Reformed faith in Bolivia
Last month (actually Oct.29- Nov.2) I taught a course, "Science and Christianity", at the Seminario Reformada Latinoamericano, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for ITEM (International Theological Education Ministries).
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Does Physics Lead to God?
Dr. Bruce Gordon, associated with the Discovery Institute (which promotes Intelligent Design) published an interesting article entitled "Divine Action and the World of Science: What Cosmology and Physics Teach Us about the Role of Providence in Nature."
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Cosmology at Creationism Conference
The
2018 International Conference on Creationism
met
last week from July 29 to August 1 in Pittsburgh. This conference
meets every 5 years, bringing together many well-known creationists,
and features their latest research.
Monday, May 14, 2018
Freedom in Christian Academia
How
should academic freedom work within a Christian university? Numerous
Christian institutions have wrestled with this question. A useful
survey is provided by historian Dr. William Ringenberg in his recent
book "The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic
Freedom" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
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