Good morning friends,
Here is a random quote (of over 2600) from Nuggets:
One has pointed out that in every man, there are four different men: the man whom the neighbors see, the man whom one’s family sees, the man whom the person himself sees, and the man whom God sees. – J.R. Miller (“What God Thinks of Us” 1909)
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Now, here are your weekly links:
- Why are Christians allowed to eat shellfish but not allowed to have sex before marriage? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/10/21/why-are-christians-allowed-to-eat-shellfish-but-not-allowed-to-have-sex-before-marriage-9/
- The Dangers of Alone: Five Questions for Single Men | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-dangers-of-alone
- Physicist Michael Strauss discusses Christianity and science at Stanford University | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/10/22/physicist-michael-strauss-discusses-christianity-and-science-at-stanford-university-15/
- Since Jesus Took Our Punishment, Why Didn’t He Need to Go to Hell Forever?: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/jesus-took-our-punishment-why-didnt-he-need-go-hell-forever
- Simple Suggestions to Challenge Young Christians Toward Spiritual Maturity | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/podcasts/simple-suggestions-to-challenge-young-christians-toward-spiritual-maturity-cold-case-christianity-broadcast-s6e04/
- Five Ways to Prepare for the Days ahead: https://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=WA21A30&f=WU21A09
- Am I Going to Hell? I talked in the past about the difficulty in clarifying our communication of the need for salvation. Frankly, to a lot of people the message of Christianity is not going to be palatable, but at least we can make it clear. It will not be the kind of thing they will be happy with. Yet, at the same time, there are things we can do that make it clearer and not inappropriately put stumbling blocks in people’s way. – Greg Koukl: https://www.str.org/w/am-i-going-to-hell-
- Prophecy Fulfilled: 4 Prophecies that Jesus did that No One Else Could Have. – Adherent Apologetics: https://adherentapologetics.com/2018/12/25/prophecy-fulfilled-4-prophecies-that-jesus-did-that-no-one-else-could-have/
- IS OUR FAITH IN JESUS A BLIND FAITH?: https://mannsword.blogspot.com/2018/08/is-our-faith-in-jesus-blind-faith.html
- The Bible Says, “Knowledge Puffs Up.” Does This Mean We Shouldn’t Study Too Much?: https://www.alisachildersblog.com/blog/the-bible-says-knowledge-puffs-up-does-this-mean-we-shouldnt-study-too-much
- 9 Wrong Ways to Read the Bible (And One Better Way) | Crossway Articles – Many of us approach the Bible not as oxygenating, but as suffocating. We see the Bible lying there on the end table. We know we should open it. Sometimes we do. But it is usually with a sense of begrudged duty. Life is demanding enough, we think. Do I really need more demands? Do I have to hear even more instruction telling me how to live? That’s an understandable feeling. But it is lamentably wrong. And it brings me to the central thing I want to say about the Bible as we think about how real sinners get traction for real change in their lives. The Bible is good news, not a pep talk.: https://www.crossway.org/articles/9-wrong-ways-to-read-the-bible-and-one-better-way/
- The Scary World of Truth: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/07/the-scary-world-of-truth.html
- Catch Countless Logical Fallacies with One Critical Thinking Hack | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/patricia-engler/2020/07/15/catch-countless-logical-fallacies/
- How to Answer the 12 Strongest Objections to Christianity: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/confronting-christianity/
- Evangelizing in a World Drowning in Sexual Problems – Topical Studies: https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-study/topical-studies/evangelizing-in-a-world-drowning-in-sexual-problems.html
- What is the true meaning of Christmas? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Christmas-true-meaning.html
- The Professor: Why Are You a Christian? Are our adults ready to give a defense of the gospel? When challenged, can they give a reasonable explanation of their faith? Dr. Bohlin presents a sobering view of this question based upon years of experience questioning high school and college-age students on the basis for their belief in Christ. By exposing their lack of cogent answers to questions they may be asked, he challenges them to spend time exploring the questions and developing biblical worldview-based answers.: https://probe.org/the-professor-why-are-you-a-christian/
- Remarkable evidence of a designed young stable solar system – A further study has recently suggested that our solar system has built-in constraints on the degree of movement of inner planet orbits, preventing them from becoming increasingly chaotic and colliding.: https://creation.com/young-stable-solar-system
- The Religion of Nature: Social Darwinism | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/charles-darwin/darwinism/religion-of-nature-social-darwinism/
- What is the Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity? | Summit Ministries – Mormons frequently claim to be just another denomination of Christianity. In this video, Brett Kunkle highlights two key differences that separate Mormonism from Christianity altogether. This video is part of a series titled “Answers to Your Questions”. These videos answer the questions that you’re asking, address the difficulties you’re facing, and they’re all from Summit’s world-class faculty members.: https://www.summit.org/resources/videos/difference-mormonism-christianity/
- What were the Inquisitions? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/inquisitions.html
- Where Does it Say the Messiah Would Rise On the Third Day in the Jewish Scriptures? – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2020/01/05/where-does-it-say-the-messiah-would-rise-on-the-third-day-in-the-jewish-scriptures-2/
- Brain = Mind? Craniopagus Twins Argue Otherwise | Evolution News – You can watch a CBC TV documentary on YouTube, “Twin Life: Sharing Mind and Body,” about craniopagus twins. They are joined at the head, and specifically, at their brains. The title of the documentary is wrong, though. As Denyse O’Leary points out at Uncommon Descent, Tatiana and Krista Hogan of British Columbia share a range of senses and can move parts of each other’s bodies, but their minds, their personalities, are separate: https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/brain-mind-craniopagus-twins-argue-otherwise/
- Being Tactical with Jehovah’s Witnesses – What frustrated me (in a recent conversation) was an illicit tactic that my Witness friends were employing throughout our conversation. Whenever I would raise a Bible passage that they couldn’t respond to, they would immediately jump to a different passage or a different subject. In logic, this is called the red herring fallacy. Specifically, this is when someone diverts the attention from the original argument. It’s a habit many critics of Christianity have in conversation, not just Jehovah’s Witnesses. You’ve probably had a similarly frustrating conversation trying to answer a question, only to have them hop to another question.: https://www.str.org/w/being-tactical-with-jehovah-s-witnesses
- Stephen Meyer Interviews John Lennox about going “Against the Tide” – Intelligent design proponent Stephen Meyer sits down for a conversation with Oxford mathematician, and debater extraordinaire, John Lennox. Both have explored the intersection of science and faith, and challenged the atheistic materialism pushed by many scientists and scholars. Here they discuss the science that leads them to believe in a purpose driven universe from the origin of life to biological evolution to the fine-tuning of nature and the universe. The conversation came in advance of the forthcoming one night only film “Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science.” The movie stars Oxford University mathematician John Lennox and actor Kevin Sorbo, and highlights debates between Professor Lennox, arguing the case for theism, supported by science, against prominent atheists including Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens.: https://youtu.be/zD50_1kicw4?si=xu5vbk7f1cLfybRC
- Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-there-any-evidence-for-jesus-outside-the-bible/
- How to NOT shelter your kids from ideas: Make a case for Christianity’s truth, goodness, and beauty – The Benefit of the Doubt – In this series of posts, I’ve argued that we should not shelter our kids from ideas. Now I’m a big fan of sheltering our kids in a variety of ways (including literally with a roof), but I think we should, in age-appropriate ways, expose them to ideas while they are in our care. Or you can just shelter them and hope for the best…but I don’t recommend it! There are three strategies offered here to appropriately expose our kids to ideas. The first is to teach our kids how to think and not just what to think. The second is to present alternative ideas fairly and charitably. I recommend presenting these alternative ideas first without evaluation so that your child accurately understands them. Only then do we earn the right to evaluate these alternative views and evaluate we should. 3rd Strategy: Make a case for Christianity’s truth, goodness, beauty: https://www.travisdickinson.com/not-shelter-kids-ideas-make-case-christianitys-truth-goodness-beauty/
- Why do so many atheist historians think that 1 Corinthians 15 is reliable history? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/10/22/why-do-so-many-atheist-historians-think-that-1-corinthians-15-is-reliable-history-4/
- Have They Found Jesus’ Childhood Home in Nazareth? | Ben Witherington: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/bibleandculture/2020/12/23/have-they-found-jesus-childhood-home-in-nazareth/
- Communicating the truth of creation with grace – As biblical creationists, we can see how important the doctrine of creation is to the Bible’s ‘big story’ of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration. Many of us recall what it was like when the lights first ‘went on’ and we realized that Genesis could be trusted as an actual historical record. And especially when that revelation is fairly new to us, we can have great zeal when communicating that truth to others who have not yet had that ‘aha’ moment.: https://creation.com/truth-grace
The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice. – Philippians 1:18
Blessings to you all
1 Peter 4:12-16 