We are no turning the corner and getting into the “home stretch” of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. In this chapter, Lewis provides an analogy that might seem quite simple, but actually is quite profound, having its roots in great Christian thinkers like Irenaeus of Lyons and great Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. The analogy…
“…the history in the Bible is true . . . and therefore the gospel (based in that history) is true!” This is an excerpt from a recent Answers in Genesis article about Ken Ham’s “Ark Encounter” entitled “Big Ark to Bring Big Message.” As I was thinking today, there are a couple points I want…
In my previous post on C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity, I discussed Lewis’ take on the concept of eternity. In this post, I will now discuss Lewis’ attempt to explain the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trying to explain the inner-relationship of the Trinity can be almost as difficult as…
In a November 3, 2014 blog post entitled, “Does Young Earth Creation Make Atheists?” Ham took on James McGrath, a religion professor at Butler University who argued that young earth creationism (YEC) amounts to nothing less than Bible idolatry, and ends up turning people off to Christianity and on to atheism. McGrath points out, in an ironic…
In Book 4:3 of Mere Christianity, in the chapter entitled, “Time and Beyond Time,” C.S. Lewis takes on a topic that simply cannot be grasped by the human mind: that of eternity. I remember when I saw Bill Maher’s movie, Religilous, there was a scene in which Maher was joking about how stupid it was…
I wanted to write a quick post concerning something I read today on Ken Ham’s blog, entitled, “Richard Dawkins Chides a Real Scientist.” As you probably know, I have been writing a book entitled The Heresy of Ham, in which I am arguing that not only is Ken Ham’s young earth creationism unscientific, but that his…
In Lewis’ next chapter, entitled, “The Three-Personal God,” he expands on the Christian concept of the Trinity. He begins by pointing out something that most people probably overlook: of all the religions in the world, only Christianity offers any kind of glimpse as to what something “super-personal” looks like. Eastern religions, which are essentially pantheist,…
It is now time to get back to my walk through of C.S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity. We have now come to book 4 of Mere Christianity, where Lewis takes his readers through a preliminary tour of Christian theology, most particularly, the doctrine of the Trinity and how it impacts how one views the world….
As I continue going through the Christian music from the 1980’s that I listened to growing up, I feel compelled to share a song from the group Daniel Amos, a Christian New Wave group from the 1980s—at least I think they would be categorized as New Wave. Daniel Amos vaulted to prominence among my circle…
If you have grown up in an American Evangelical culture, no doubt your view of the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis is that Israel can do no wrong, and all the Palestinians are fanatical Muslims. The problem, of course, is that is completely wrong. The reason why so many Evangelicals in America tend to think that, though, is…