Have you ever heard of the Reformed rejection of philosophy? The idea is that philosophy or natural theology is not necessary because it is not salvific, or because it is less clear than scripture so we may as well just go to scripture, or because it leads to apostasy as in evolution and Marxism. In [...]
How do you know if you love God? Here's a problem: I find that people with conflicting definitions of "God" all say they love God. This means that some of them love a fantasy that is not real. So the first thing to sort out is what is God and how do we know God [...]
What can you expect out of a Saturday Intensive? What is so intense about it? A Saturday intensive means we will spend four hours on a Saturday morning going over the arguments to show that God exists. We will cover lots of material and there will be much for you to learn that day [...]
“How do you know that?” This is one of the most common questions you will hear. And that makes sense because most of the time when we speak we claim to know something. But what does it mean to know? This problem is one of authority: By what authority do you say that? If [...]
What is God? When we are looking into proofs for or against the existence of God, we first need to know what it is that we are trying to prove. Sometimes a famous person will say “I have come to believe in God,” and other people who believe in God are very excited. But when [...]
When you ask someone to describe their view of heaven you get a descriptive look at what the person thinks is good. “Heaven” is whatever the person thinks is good in this life plus more and without hindrances or suffering. So what is good? If we are wrong about what is good then we will [...]
But what about faith? If it is clear that God exists that leaves no room for faith, right? We need to take a moment to figure out what “faith” means. There are a few different meanings going around that can confuse this question. When “faith” is contrasted with knowledge it means believing when you don’t [...]
Our posts have been about what to expect from the conference, how to be prepared, and the kinds of topics we will be discussing. These center around knowing God. We know God from the works of God. That starts by knowing that only God has existed from eternity. All other things were brought into existence [...]
The first question in the study of metaphysics is: what is eternal? What has existed from eternity? What has no beginning? We can even categorize the various world systems in terms of what they say is eternal. This helps make sense of how each system understands reality, value, and authority. There are those that say nothing is eternal. This [...]
In Hebrews 11 we are given a whole chapter about faith. Hebrews 11: 1 we are told that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The modern world has made a conflict between reason and faith. But here we see that the distinction is between the seen and the unseen. Faith uses [...]
