by Mark Farnham | Dec 1, 2014 | Apologetics, Christian Thinkers, Evangelism
The ordinary agnostic has got his facts all wrong. He is a non-believer for a multitude of reasons, but they are untrue reasons. He doubts because the Middle Ages were barbaric, but they weren’t; because Darwinism is demonstrated, but it isn’t; because...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 30, 2014 | Apologetics, Atheism/Skepticism, Skepticism
Unless we are born again, we cannot see the kingdom of God. A man once stood on a soap box at Hyde Park Corner, pouring scorn on Christianity. “People tell me that God exists, but I can’t see him. People tell me that there is a life after death; but I...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 26, 2014 | Christian Thinkers, Theology
The novelist and essayist, Dorothy Sayers once heard a dean of Mansfield College, Oxford say that “The tragedy of all this doctrine, however interesting to theologians, is hopelessly irrelevant to the life and thought of the average man.” She responded...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 24, 2014 | Apologetics, Evangelism
The kind of apologetics that challenges the objections raised against the Christian faith is often called presuppositionalism (although some prefer other names, such as the transcendental approach or covenantal apologetics). Rather than accepting the unbeliever’s...
by Mark Farnham | Nov 17, 2014 | Apologetics, Evangelism
The heart of apologetics is giving an answer to that coworker who asks how you can believe in God when there is so much evil and suffering in the world. It is making a defense of the Scriptures when your classmate challenges the reliability of the Bible. It is...
