by Mark Farnham | Jan 15, 2018 | Atheism/Skepticism
I’m saddened that atheists are so passionate about what they believe that they will read stacks of books in order to define their beliefs, while we are happy to float along the surface with a “Hillsong-deep theology” and call it good. And we wonder why people are...
by Mark Farnham | Jan 12, 2018 | Christian Living, Christian Thinkers
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all. But, fortunately, it works the other way around. Anyone...
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...
