“If science can’t prove it, it isn’t real.” This is another way the belief in Physicalism” is expressed. Last week I discussed one reason Physicalism dies before it gets started as a rational approach to the world—it is logically self-defeating. This week I’ll tackle a second problem with Physicalism—it can’t explain so much of what we observe every day.
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During the intellectual attacks we have been discussing there were a small group of Christians who didn’t Retreat from or Surrender to the contemporary ideas at odds with Scripture. Instead they Engaged the ideas. They were in the world but not “of” the world (John 17:16). Their strategy was to “out-think” the critics of Christianity with sound reasoning and winsome engagement.
Leave a CommentHaving shared in my last post the way believers loved God with their minds several hundred years ago… how did that all change? Christianity encountered another wave of intellectual attack, and for the first time in our history we did not respond in a healthy and helpful way…
2 CommentsIt has been said, “He who doesn’t understand history is bound to repeat it.” How true. So to understand how we got to the point of needing to blog about learning to love God with our minds it seems helpful to first understand how we got here. (My thanks to J.P. Moreland and Frank Pastore for first introducing me to some of these ideas. In fact, the influence of J.P. Moreland on my thought can be traced throughout all I will write on this blog. I consider it one of the greatest honors and blessings of my life to have been JP’s student and friend for the past 30 years.)…
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