Science–the Central Dogma vs. Epigenetics


Genesis–the sun came into existence on day 4?–John Lennox


John Carson Lennox is an Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

John Carson Lennox is an Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

“If the text means that the sun came into existence on day 4, Origen was asking a very reasonable question: “If the sun is not yet there, how are we to understand the first three days with their ‘evenings and mornings”

John C. Lennox, Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science

Treating the Bible as less than a book–John Lennox


John Carson Lennox is an Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

John Carson Lennox is an Irish mathematician, philosopher of science, and Christian apologist who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

“It would be a pity if, in a desire (rightly) to treat the Bible as more than a book, we ended up treating it as less than a book by not permitting it the range and use of language, order, and figures of speech that are (or ought to be) familiar to us from our ordinary experience of conversation and reading.”
John C. Lennox, Seven Days That Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis and Science    

Fact Checking Dan Barker: From our Recent Debate June 6, 2015


Daniel B. Wallace's avatarDaniel B. Wallace

This is a guest post by Dr. Justin W. Bass regarding his recent debate with well-known atheist, Dan Barker. The debate topic was “Jesus of Nazareth: Lord or Legend?”

“I discovered that there is no evidence for Christianity” –Dan Barker (Losing Faith in Faith, 69).

Dan Barker wrote these words in 1992 in his first book Losing Faith in Faith recounting his de-conversion from a fundamentalist Christian pastor to a promoter of atheism and free-thought.

Dan first came out publicly as an atheist on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1984. Since that time he has been a preacher of atheism and free-thought as a kind of “reverse penance” (Losing Faith, 10), he says, for all the years he proclaimed the gospel.

At 15, he accepted a calling from God to live and preach for Jesus Christ. He was a self-admitted fundamentalist from the beginning believing “every…

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What did Jesus mean by”Do and observe whatever they tell you?” (Matt 23) – Because the best way to bless Israel is with Jesus


What did Jesus mean by”Do and observe whatever they tell you?” (Matt 23) – Because the best way to bless Israel is with Jesus.

N.T. Wright–LUKE 15.11– 32 –Parable of the Prodigal, from Luke for Everyone


James Ross Kelly's avatarSt. John One: One

The Father and the Younger Son

11Jesus went on:

‘Once there was a man who had two sons. 12The younger son said to the father, “Father, give me my share in the property .” So he divided up his livelihood between them. 13Not many days later the younger son turned his share into cash, and set off for a country far away, where he spent his share in having a riotous good time. 15‘When he had spent it all, a severe famine came on that country, and he found himself destitute. 15So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into the fields to feed his pigs. 16He longed to satisfy his hunger with the pods that the pigs were eating, and nobody gave him anything. 17‘He came to his senses. “Just think!” he said to himself. “There are all my father’s…

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