Scripture presents its heroes warts-and-all! Noah gets drunk, Abraham and Isaac tell lies, David commits adultery, Paul starts out as a persecutor, and the list could continue. In fact, there are very few characters in Scripture (about whom we know much) for whom we do not have at least one big sin on record. Naturally, Jesus is in the spotless category, and of course one of the reasons Joseph is often considered to be a type of Christ is because he is more or less blameless too. We often downplay the sins of biblical heroes, but we also play up the negative events in the lives of those we consider to be antagonists. What follows is a discussion of three characters, just in the book of Genesis, that we often treat with contempt unnecessarily, or without much good evidence. 

Becoming a teenager, I seemed to attract the wrong crowd. My girlfriend at the time was an atheist.  My life was filled with doubters. I started to question Christianity, and why I believed it. I ended up giving it up completely and just quitting with religion. I didn’t want to put my faith into something I couldn’t see, nor prove.

Sarah Medicis is guest blogging for me this week. She is a phenomenal young lady who has recently gotten excited about apologetics and it has been a part of a revolution in her Christian life. In this article she will tell you why theological education might energize and engage a generation of disinterested millennials! Listen to her! She . . . IS . . . ONE!

In this essay my goal is to lay out one philosophical argument in favor of libertarian freedom that I think serves as a philosophical defeater to the claim that libertarian freedom for humans in a fallen world is incoherent. This will be followed with one argument that the belief in freedom is properly basic. Finally, I will lay out a defense of the belief in and of itself in libertarian freedom from an appeal to libertarian mystery as opposed to compatibilist mystery. Ultimately, it is my goal that the production of a defeater, an argument for the proper-basicality of soft-libertarian freedom and an appeal to preferred libertarian mystery will push the ball forward with regard to discussions between libertarians and compatibilists/divine-determinists.

There are several unfortunate beliefs and trends occurring in the church at present that prevent evangelists and evangelistic pastors from seeing those sorts of results they (and God) want. Today, I finally developed the constitution to just say what I think needs to be said on the matter. In my opinion evangelists and evangelistic pastors have become too scared to DRAW THE NET, as the old-timers say.