by Mark Farnham | Aug 30, 2010 | Theology
One of the major differences between Calvinist and Arminian soteriology, between Monergism and Synergism, is the concept of faith. Calvinists see human response of faith as meritorious, and therefore must argue that faith is a gift from God, and not something...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 27, 2010 | Apologetics, Philosophy, Theology
Nietzsche’s Antidote to Christianity Nietzsche’s purpose in attacking Christianity is multi-fold, but it can be argued that one of the main reasons was the need to overthrow the reigning metaphysic of the day in order to proclaim his own supposedly non-religious...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 26, 2010 | Theology
Systematic theology and biblical theology have traditionally been conceived as somewhat disparate disciplines, constituting entirely different approaches to theology. Biblical theology is held by some to be somewhat suspect, since it originally arose among critics of...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 24, 2010 | Apologetics, Culture
My contention, however, is that the primary cause of most present conflicts in which the West is now engaged is not religion nor foreign policy, but culture. Culture is the radix of which the individual conflicts over specific aspects of Western policies are often...
by Mark Farnham | Aug 23, 2010 | Apologetics
A presupposition is not a belief that one must have before (temporally speaking) one comes to believe in other things; rather, it is a belief that is independent of some other knowledge and governs that knowledge to some extent. John Frame, Cornelius Van Til: An...