An overview of the contemporary argument from morality for God. This video is from our 2021 Spring lecture series covering Natural Theology & the Truth of Christianity. Each week, we evaluate the classical arguments for and against the existence of God and truth of Christianity. For slides and handouts go […]
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What has Jerusalem to do with Yosemite? Guest Speaker Dr. Robert Garcia discusses environmental ethics and how Christian approaches may have unique insights in the often heated debate. To make the question most poignant, Dr. Garcia focuses in on the question of if/when it is acceptable to eat animals and what obligations […]
On October 23, 2018 Matt Dillahunty debated John Ferrer on “Do We Need God for Morality?” Questions of right, wrong, good, and evil are some of the most profound. For many people, God plays the central role of Moral Lawgiver. With this comes the concern that unless God exists, ethics […]
Whether infants who die are redeemed or condemned is certainly a knotty problem and one that deserves to be treated soberly. Here, I will not attempt to tease out the various issues and reach a conclusion. Rather, I am going to examine a particular objection to a particular view and […]
One common challenge posed by skeptics is to impugn the goodness of God using difficult passages from the Old Testament. Some of these challenges are trivial; for example, the challenge of 2 Samuel 12:31. In the KJV, this verse reads, “And he [David] brought forth the people that were therein and put them […]
In the United States, for a reason that is incomprehensible to me, Evangelical Christianity has become associated with strong political stances on a number of issues. Some of these stances, like abortion, make sense, but others, notably environmental issues and the perception that Christians are out to exploit and destroy nature, […]
Introduction The sin of racism runs deep, especially in modern day American culture. Sadly, racism has stained the history of the Church and is even harbored by some denominations today. However, there is simply no excuse for a consistent, Biblical Christian to be racist. From a general perspective, Christians are called to […]
Does the Bible support slavery? Some would claim that it does, and that this contradicts the view of an all loving God presented by Christians. Before we dive in to the issue, let us ask a more basic question, “how does God change the world?” This question is important, because […]
Introduction The moral argument is one of a family of arguments attempt to show that the existence of God is plausible given some basic beliefs (These arguments are called “transcendental arguments” – these are arguments that try to show that some propositions X are necessary conditions for Y). This argument shows […]