by Mark Farnham | Jan 10, 2018 | Atheism/Skepticism, Culture, Secularism
To be entirely modern (which very few of us are) is to believe in nothing. This is not to say it is to have no beliefs: the truly modern person may believe in almost anything, or even perhaps in everything, so long as all these beliefs rest securely upon a more...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 9, 2018 | Apologetics, Biblical Studies, Logic
“When dealing with skeptics’ claim of Bible contradictions it seems one can never be reminded enough of what exactly is a contradiction. A contradiction occurs when two or more claims conflict with one another so that they cannot simultaneously be true in the...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 8, 2018 | Atheism/Skepticism, Biblical Studies, History
Christianity is the only major faith built entirely around a single historical claim. It is, however, a claim quite unlike any other ever made, as any perceptive and scrupulous historian must recognize. Certainly it bears no resemblance to the vague fantasies of...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 5, 2018 | Culture, The Church
Just as many Christians are unaware of the Hindu origins of yoga (namaste means “the god within me bows to the god within you”), many are unaware of how popular Buddhist practices are infiltrating our vocabulary....
by Mark Farnham | Jan 4, 2018 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms, but...
