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The Free Flowing Knowledge of Religion
I can’t help but wonder whats more foolish? Rejecting a religion after its holy book, Or rejecting all other religions after reading just one holy book? The reason I ask this rhetorical question, because we are guilty of this mindset … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, belief, christian, christian history, debate, Free-Thought, freethinker, history, life, Musings for Life, Philosophy for Life, reason, reasonable evidence, religion
Tagged Agnosticism, atheism, Christian theology, Christianity, freethinker, freethought, quotable quotes, quotes, reasonable evidence, reasoning, skepticism
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God, the Meaningless Topic
God is the above and beyond everything; God is the unmovable mover; God is the first and the last, …..God is the Married Bachelor. God is the living contradiction. Too many times I have listened to people describe God as … Continue reading
Posted in atheist vs christian, attributes of God, character, debate, deceived, fallacious, Free-Thought, god, logic, occam's razor, philosophy, theology
Tagged atheism, Atheist, does god exist?, eternal, freethought, God, ignostic, Ignosticism, infinite, logic, religion, Religion and Spirituality, transcendent
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Contradictions Part 6: Jesus’s Genealogy
Originally posted on Finding Truth:
The first post in this series can be found here. Personally, I think this is one of the clearest contradictions in the Bible. Why does the Bible give us Jesus’ genealogy? I can think of…
Posted in apologetic, apologetics, bible, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, biblical inerrancy, carm, christ, debate, gospel of matthew, history, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, messiah, religion
Tagged apologetics, bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, biblical inerrancy, christian reasoning, jesus, religion, scriptural difficulties
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Is God Eternal? Is God Transcendent?
A while back I did a post on God being Infinite and the many contradictory problems with calling God infinite. And when doing that post, in the comments section the post turned to issue of God being Eternal. So I … Continue reading
Posted in apologetics, atheist vs christian, attributes, attributes of God, character, christian, contradiction, cumulative case, debate, Free-Thought, god, ontology, purpose, reasoning, Response
Tagged christian reasoning, Christianity, epistemology, eternal, everlasting, free will, freethought, God, God's attributes, Immanence, immanent, infinite, kalam Cosmological argument, logical contradiction, ontological, perfect, Perfect God, Perfection, philosophy, proof by contradiction, reasoning, Richard Swinburne, timeless, transcendent
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What if Superman behaved like God?
When I first saw the initial picture of Jesus talking to Spiderman, Captain America and The Hulk, I couldn’t help but chuckle to myself. As to how silly this picture really makes the ideology of Jesus really look. Even though … Continue reading
Posted in attributes, attributes of God, character, christ, christian, Common Sense, debate, emotions, god, God-Breathed, inspiration, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, messiah, ontology, probability of God, reasoning, Salvation, satirical, skeptic, skepticism
Tagged Christ, Christianity, common sense, evidence of Jesus, God, God's attributes, inspiration, jesus, morality, Ontology, perfect, Perfect God, Perfection, Salvation, Superheroes
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Religion vs. Science: How they are fundamentally incompatible?
This is the last post in my Religion vs Science Series. Different Worldviews of Faith and Science I would definitely say that a christian/religious worldview contradicts that of a scientific world view. For in a religious worldview morality, faith, God, … Continue reading
Posted in bible, character, christian, christian faith, contradiction, cumulative case, debate, deductive reasoning, faith, Free-Thought, freedom, freethinker, god, life, logic, occam's razor, purpose, quote, read your bible, reason, reasonable evidence, reasoning, religion, religion vs. science, skeptic, skepticism, theology, youtube
Tagged bible, bible contradictions, biblical Christianity, christian, Christian faith, Christianity, David Kinnaman, deductive reasoning, epistemology, faith, freethought, inductive reasoning, life, logic, logic of life, logical contradiction, reasonable faith, reasoning, religion, robert Ingersoll, science, Science and Religion, Thought, Unfaith, World view
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Religion vs. Science: Are Religion and Science Compatible?
Now some of my counterparts might disagree with this post but I must confess at the core of traditional fundamental biblical Christianity it contradicts with science. We would be disillusioned to think that religion and science are not at war … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, atheist, atheist vs christian, belief, christian, christian faith, christian history, church, creation, creationism, debate, deconversion, evolution, evolution vs. creation, Free-Thought, freethinker, gallup, jerry coyne, logic, religion, religion vs. science, unbelief, youtube
Tagged atheism, Atheist, belief, believer, Christian faith, Christianity, Church, church history, creation, Creationism, David Kinnaman, Deism, deist, evolution, freethought, Galileo, Jerry Coyne, logical contradiction, mindset, proof by contradiction, religion, Science and Religion, Survey, unbelief, Unfaith, You Lost Me
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Faith Will Fail: My letter to a Church Elder
So a while back one of the elders delivered a message at the church. And this was just a few weeks after I deconverted. In his message he talked about faith, doubt, belief, and unbelief. And in his message he … Continue reading
Posted in apologist, atheism, atheist, atheist vs christian, best apologist, christian faith, christian fraud, debate, doubt, doubt faith, emotions, faith, freethinker, jp moreland, religion, skeptic, skepticism
Tagged atheism, Atheist, belief, BitterSweet, christian doubt, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christianity, Church, community, doubt, faith, jp moreland, reasonable belief, reasonable faith, skeptic, skepticism, unbelief
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Scriptural Reasoning
Go to Main Menu, Bonus topic for my series: Reasoning with Faith, Religion, and Atheism Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is a growing academic field of study, because it is a relatively young philosophical field of thought. In some academic circular it is … Continue reading
Posted in Common Sense, conference, debate, Free-Thought, freedom, freethinker, philosophy, purpose, reason, reasoning, religion, scripture alone, systematic theology, theology, youtube
Tagged christian, christian reasoning, Christianity, community, conference, God, Guillermo Hansen, judaism, Judeo-Christian, Musings, quote, reasonable faith, religion, Religion and Spirituality, scriptual reasoning, theology
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Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
It was only after reading a book review on the Finding Truth blog about this book did I decide to buy this book on amazon. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading. It … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, attributes of God, bible contradictions, biblical difficulties, Book Review, christian, death, debate, evil, faith, god, prophecy, quote, reason, reasoning, religion, religion vs. science
Tagged Abortion, Atheist, belief, Book Review, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christianity, faith, God, God's attributes, morality, new atheism, new atheist, Sam Harris, Scientific skepticism, skeptic, skepticism, Stem cell
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Does the God of the Bible measure up to his own Standard of Perfect?
This Post is Part of Series of Post called Dissecting the Anatomy of God. Quick View: Table of Contents, The bible says we should judge a tree by the fruit that it bears, so for the sake of being biblically sound we … Continue reading
Posted in apologetic, apologetics, atheist vs christian, bible contradictions, bible study, biblical difficulties, carm, christ, christian fraud, confusion, contradiction, debate, god, jesus, jesus the christ, jesus the messiah, laws of logic, quote, scriptural difficulties
Tagged adam, Adam and Eve, bible, bible contradictions, bible difficulties, deity, eve, genesis, God, immutable, perfect, Perfect God, proof by contradiction, quote, scriptural difficulties
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The Ontological Philosophy of a Perfect God
This Post is Part of Series of Post called Dissecting the Anatomy of God. Quick View: Table of Contents, This is more of the philosophical question of the existence of God and could a perfect God actually exist? To many … Continue reading
Is the God of the Bible Confused?
Bible Difficulty #11 Confusion-1 Corinthians 14:33 “God is not a God of confusion [disorder] but of peace…” (NIV) other versions say “God is not the author of confusion, but of peace….”(KJV) So is God the creator or not the creator … Continue reading
Evangelical Atheism
Arkentan a frequent visitor to this blog left this comment on my book review post of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. At first I was going to leave just a short reply, but I decided to turn it into a post, … Continue reading
Posted in atheist, atheist vs christian, Camels with Hammers, christian, contribution post, debate, doubt faith, emotions, faith, guest post, quote, reason, Response
Tagged Atheist, believer, christian, Christianity, community, Evangelical Atheism, mindset, quote, reason
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Can we all just get along.
So I saw a post on the blog, Is there a God titled, why does it have to be a war? And my initial reaction to this post was one of agreement that it doesn’t have to be a war … Continue reading
Posted in atheism, atheist, atheist vs christian, bible, character, christian faith, christopher hitchens, church, creationism, debate, emotions, evolution, evolution vs. creation, Free-Thought, freethinker, laws of logic, quote, religion, religion vs. science, sam harris, scripture, scripture alone, unbelief
Tagged atheism, Atheist, bible, Christian faith, christian reasoning, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Church, community, mindset, new atheism, new atheist, quote, read your bible, religion, Sam Harris, scripture, scripture alone
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The BitterSweet End 