by Mark Farnham | Oct 13, 2014 | Apologetics, Christian Thinkers
The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks. And it speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or indirectly. It tells us...
by Mark Farnham | Oct 10, 2014 | Apologetics, Culture, Missions
Nineteenth-century Christian missions exploded across the globe with the general expectation that the gospel would penetrate the whole world, and that the evangelism of the world would conceivably be completed within a century or so. That sense of optimism is not so...
by Mark Farnham | Oct 8, 2014 | Apologetics, Philosophy, Theology, Trinity
Why is the Trinity important to apologetics? Well, what happens when unitarianism (the view that God is merely one) is substituted for Trinitarianism? One result is that the God so defined tends to lose definition and the marks of personality. In the early centuries...
by Mark Farnham | Oct 6, 2014 | Apologetics, Christian Thinkers, The Church, Theology
J. Gresham Machen states it as clearly as it can be said: It is no wonder, then, that liberalism is totally different from Christianity, for the foundation is different. Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life....
by Mark Farnham | Oct 4, 2014 | Apologetics, The Church
We may think of the apologist as constantly walking up and down on or near the outer defenses of the fortress. This will give the other occupants time to build and also enjoy the building. The others too must defend, but not so constantly and unremittingly. The...
