One of the more unfortunate aspects of blogging is that good posts quickly get buried, and eventually “lost” over time. Most people do not have the time or patience to search through 100s or 1000s of past posts to find the gems. To solve for this problem I have created this “best of” page, featuring links to the most-viewed, most-talked about, and most intellectually stimulating posts on Thinking to Believe. Enjoy!
Abortion
- Personally opposed to Abortion, but…
- Pro-Life with a Footnote: Abortion in Cases of Rape and Incest
- It’s my body
- Exposing the Bodily Autonomy Argument for Abortion
- Does Plan B (morning after pill) Cause Abortions?
- Abortion: The Defining Political Issue
Apologetics
- Faith Does Not Need Reasons, but They Sure are Nice!
- Blessed Are Those Who Believe Without Seeing
- God is an Apologist
- Apologetics and intellectual survival
- Apologetics vs. the Spirit: A False Dichotomy
- Answers are out there
- People Could Give a Rip About Our Arguments?
- Let’s Argue!
- Experience and feelings as guides for truth
- Logic, Reason, and Philosophy are Intellectual and Spiritual Goods
Atheism & Theism
- You Can’t Know if There’s a God
- Inexcusable Ignorance Part I, Part 2
- A Bad Argument Against Atheism
- The Typical Atheist’s Response to the Moral Argument for God’s Existence
- Religion as a Human Invention Part I, Part 2
- A cosmological argument based on the necessity of something existing for eternity
- Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism Go Together Like Peas in a Blender
- Is Belief in God Rational?
- Atheists Have Some ‘Splainin’ to Do
- Theism is not Falsifiable. So What?
- Is an Unembodied Mind too Abstract a Notion to be the Cause of the Universe?
- Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?
- Existence and Necessity
- Do We Create the Universe?
- Answering the “Temporal Necessity” Objection to the Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Atheism is not the Default Position
- Atheists believe in miracles too
- Agnostics are not neutral on the question of God’s existence
- Creation was a Temporal Act
- Belief in God is not Akin to Belief in Santa
- Why is there so much evil in the world?
- Thinking About a Whole Lotta Nothing, Part 1, Part 2, 3, 4
- The Hiddenness of God Objection to Theism, Part I, Part 2
- The Making of an Atheist, Part I, Part 2
- God’s Existence Can Be Disproven
- Unwarranted Skepticism of Premises in Theistic Arguments
- Causes vs. Explanations
- How do we know God is good?
- Phenomenon for which Materialism is Clearly not an Adequate Explanation
- Responding to the “evil god” challenge
- More on Stephen Law’s Evil God Challenge
- Tied at the Hip: The Logical and Evidential Versions of the Problem of Evil
- Even if the universe is eternal, it still needs a cause
- Premise 1 of the Kalam Cosmological Argument Does not Prove God Has no Cause
- Is postulating an eternal God explanatorily equivalent to positing an eternal universe?
- Why certainty is irrelevant to defining atheism
- The Mind-Body Interaction Problem is not a Sufficient Reason to Reject Dualism
- Does Ockham’s Razor inveigh against a creator God?
- The Kalam Cosmological Argument is Impervious to Scientific Refutation
- Waldo as an Analogy of Divine Hiddenness
- Contingency Argument for God’s Existence
- Atheists may lack belief in God, but they do not lack beliefs about God
Bible
- Differences in the Gospels
- Differences in the Gospels…update
- Differences in the Gospels II
- Differences in the Gospels III
- Taking the Bible Seriously Without Taking it Literally
- Re-measuring Goliath: 9’9” or 6’9”?
- Psalm 110:1 — A Case Study for the NT use of the OT
- Why Samuel and Chronicles Sometimes Contradict Each Other
- That’s Just Your Interpretation
- That’s just your opinion
- Is all of the Bible accurate?
- Mark’s Ending: The Long and Short of It
- A Short History of the Textus Receptus
- The Gospels: Why Did It Take So Long for the Church to Write About Jesus?
- Resurrection and Inerrancy
God and Christ
- Does God Know Where There Is?: Omnipresence Revisited
- Does God Know When Now Is?: Divine Eternality Revisited
- Is God Unknowable?
- How Do You Know God is Ineffable?
- “I Know God is Unknowable”
- Craig vs. Borg on Divine Ineffability
- Not a Prooftext for the Deity of Christ
- Names for God and Jesus in the NT
- Historic Creeds: Identifying What’s Chicken and What’s Bones
- Credo: Oneness Pentecostal Style
- Is God a Person?
- Patripassianism and the Death of God
- Reifying “Natures” = Two Persons
- How do we know God is good?
Homosexuality & Same-Sex Marriage
- The Challenge Bisexuals Pose to Common Same-Sex Marriage Arguments
- Same-Sex Marriage is not a Transcendent Right
- Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage is not Anti-Gay
- More than Religion is Responsible for Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage
- Same-Sex Marriage: Answering the “Childless Couples” Objection
- Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Fundamental Rights
- An Effective One-Liner in Support of Marriage
- A Concise Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage
- Should same-sex marriage be legal, even if it is immoral?
- Responding to the “Who are you to say?” Response in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
- The Myth of Homosexual Biological Determinism
- Why the Debate over Same-Sex Marriage Matters
- Should Gays Have Marriage Rights?: NJ Supreme Court Rules They Should
- The Definition of the Definition of Marriage
- Civil Marriage is Not a Right, so Same-Sex Marriage Cannot be a Right
- Why the word “marriage” is worth fighting for: Britain is one step closer to legalizing same-sex marriage
- Angela Merkel Opposes Same-Sex Marriage
- Why I am opposed to “traditional” marriage
- Is Sexual Orientation Change Possible?
Morality, Relativism, Pluralism
- Problems with the Social Contract Theory of Morality
- Why Can’t the Moral Relativist Murder His Neighbor?
- Answering the Empty Slogans of Religious Pluralism Part 1, Part 2
- Aren’t Christians Arrogant?
- You’re only a Christian because you were born in America
- Who are you to say who’s right and who’s wrong?
- Responding to the “change and diversity” argument against moral objectivism
- “I’m not a Christian because there are too many hypocrites in the church”
- Imposing Religion by Morals Legislation?
- Ruse’s Evolutionary Account of Morality
- Moral Relativism Undermines the Ability to Condemn Anything
- Can Morality be Grounded Outside of God?
- I can be Good Without God
Odds & Ends
- The Scientific Study of Prayer
- Maybe God Could Have Created Free Creatures Who Could Not Sin
- Worldview, not Religion
- Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will are Compatible
- Worldview and Evangelism
Philosophy & Thinking
- Knowledge, Truth, and Christianity
- What Gives Us Our Identity?
- The Eulogy of Meaning
- No Argument Provides Certainty
- So it is true that it’s not true that you believe it’s true that the law of non-contradiction is not true?
- Logic, Reason, and Philosophy are Intellectual and Spiritual Goods
- Causes vs. Explanations
- Is it rational to believe in something without verifiable, empirical evidence?
Science, Evolution, Intelligent Design
- Is Darwinian Evolution Compatible with Belief in God?
- Evolution and Theism are Incompatible
- Theistic Evolution
- Taking Science on Faith
- The Multiverse, God, and Reason
- Big Bang Cosmology and Atheism Go Together Like Peas in a Blender
- The Multiverse, God, and Reason
- God-of-the-Gaps, or Science-of-the-Gaps?: Science Cannot Eliminate God
- Signature in the Cell, Part 1: Information, Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7a, 7b
- The origin of life is not a lottery, Part 2
- The Adequacy of Darwinian Evolution, Part 1: What Needs to be Demonstrated, Part 2, 3a, 3b
- Chimp and Human Y Chromosomes Discovered to be very Different
- Atheist Tries to Refute Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God
- Miracles and the Laws of Nature
- There is no scientific evidence for God?
- Science Cannot Identify Uncaused Entities
- Science Cannot Prove the Universe is Eternal
- People of the Gaps
- Stephen Hawking Puts God on Unemployment
- Miracles and the Laws of Nature
- There is no scientific evidence for God?
- Does Intelligent Design Make Science Unpredictable?
- Answering the “Temporal Necessity” Objection to the Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Stephen Hawking: God Could not Create the Universe Because There Was No Time for Him to Do So
- Why Think All Questions Have Scientific Answers?
- Even if the universe is eternal, it still needs a cause
- Is postulating an eternal God explanatorily equivalent to positing an eternal universe?
- How do you know that life evolved if you don’t know how life evolved?
- Alexander Vilenkin: “All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.”
- Is the Multiverse a Testable, Scientific Theory?
- Science alone can never justify materialism
- “That’s not science!” Translation: “That’s not naturalism!”
- Why the universe? Only two options
- Misunderstanding the God of the Gaps
Theology
- Why Pray for the Lost to be Saved?
- Are You Telling Me I’m Going to Hell Because I Don’t Believe in Jesus?
- The Rap on the Rapture
- Thoughts on the Lord’s Supper
- Neuroscientists Examine Glossalalia
- How to Tell the Difference Between Fake and Authentic Tongues
- Are the Biblical Witnesses of the Resurrection Disqualified Because They are Christians?
- The primary purpose of baptism is not the forgiveness of sins
- Why Did the Apostles Wait so Long to Proclaim the Resurrection?
- Should we expect to see miracles like Paul’s in our own lives?
- How is “Jesus” the name of the Father, Son, and Spirit?
- The Oneness of God and Baptism in Jesus’ Name are not Joined at the Hip
- Is the Singular “Name” of Matthew 28:19 Theologically Important?
- Are the Gifts of the Spirit Only Available for Those Who First Receive the Spirit?
- Not for prophet
- Noah’s Ark was not Built in 120 Years
- When Lying is not Wrong
- Why do people go to hell? For not believing on Jesus?
- Is Christian Orthodoxy a Historical Fiction?
- Limited Apologetic Value of “Fulfilled” Messianic Prophecies
- Why Jesus is Necessary
- “We don’t go to Church for People, but for God”
- “All we need is God”
- Bodily Resurrection a Later Christian Invention?
- Did Matthew Record Jesus’ Resurrection Appearance to 500?
- God’s ways/thoughts are above our ways/thoughts
- The Gospels: Why Did It Take So Long for the Church to Write About Jesus?
- Geographical and Temporal Markers in the Canonical Gospels
- A Resurrected Christ: The Most Unlikely of All Conclusions
- A series on Biblical Archaeology
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January 24, 2011 at 2:00 am
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May 4, 2022 at 7:06 am
We are planning in organizing our ministers, is it Biblical to conduct an election in selecting leaders of the group?
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