by Mark Farnham | Feb 25, 2022 | Christian Living, Deconstruction, Doubt
No one likes to be intimidated or pressured. I remember standing in the middle of a circle of men in a warehouse with two of my classmates from Bible college one summer day in 1986. The men had discovered that we were Christians preparing for gospel ministry (or to be...
by Mark Farnham | Feb 18, 2022 | Atheism/Skepticism, Deconstruction, Philosophy, Secularism, Skepticism
The third reason I have seen Christians deconstruct is that they have absorbed and adopted naturalistic approaches to the Bible. I use the term “humanistic” in the title, because all the descriptors that can be used for this error—naturalistic, atheistic,...
by Mark Farnham | Feb 15, 2022 | Christian Living, Suffering, Theology
“Do you remember when Dr. Behr was here yesterday?” my wife asked me. I searched my memories but had no recollection of a Dr. Behr. It was Day Six in the hospital and between the fog of opioids and the constant flow of doctors, nurses, cleaners, dining service, and...
by Mark Farnham | Feb 12, 2022 | Apologetics, Christian Living, Deconstruction, Doubt
“Do not be deceived; bad company corrupts good morals” (1 Cor. 15:33). The second reason I have observed for professing Christians to deconstruct their faith is that they expose their hearts and minds to error (for my definition of deconstruction and the various...
by Mark Farnham | Feb 9, 2022 | Christian Living, Suffering, Theology
See Part 1 here. In his book, The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis beautifully describes in a fictional encounter how God will help us make sense of our suffering when we finally see Him. “This is what mortals misunderstand,” says one man to another. “They say of some...
