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Further elaboration on the atheist’s perspective might be helpful. He does not read the Bible to understand what it says; he reads it only to find some basis on which to attack it. This can be demonstrated in the hundreds of unwarranted attacks they make on the Scriptures. We’
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Many people have heard of L. Ron Hubbard and the cult he formed, called Scientology. Not too long ago Spiritual Perspectives discussed their “Personality Test” and some of their teachings (May 26, June 2, and June 9, 2024). Recently, your congenial editor received a copy of a Holiday Catalog that
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We are still focusing on chapter 3 of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion because he tossed together several complaints against the Scriptures—although he often fails to mention the verses to which he refers. A few more of his criticisms merit answers. At one point, Dawkins (apparently in frustration
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This is a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that for Amendment 3 (legalizing recreational marijuana) nearly 56% of the public voted yes; 44% voted no. Amendment 4 was about the same; slightly more than 57% voted in favor of the liberal abortion proposal while almost 43%
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Richard Dawkins has 448 pages crowded with material—often it could be referred to as immaterial—but no three-line syllogisms, which is precisely the point of the quote that ended last week's article. One can cite numerous sources, spend time chasing rabbits, include a multitude of anecdotes,
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Recently, another family received a handwritten note (it looks personal but was copied) from a Jehovah's Witness (that they do not know). Accompanying the letter was a Watchtower publication. This particular one is dated (presumably January) 2020. The printed copies of this issue have reached more than 93
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In chapter three, Dawkins finally gets around to examining the arguments that have been made for the existence of God; however, he often selects weak arguments to tear down while ignoring stronger arguments altogether. He briefly notes five arguments from Thomas Aquinas, who died in 1274. Then he considers the
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Most proverbs involve the use of parallelism, in which synonyms are used to describe the same situation—or else antonyms are used to contrast a point. Take, for example Proverbs 27:5, which several translations render as: "Open rebuke is better than hidden love." Open is contrasted with
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After Richard Dawkins spued forth his litany of complaints against God to open the second chapter of The God Delusion, he thinks it will help to give Thomas Jefferson's opinion, which was that the God of Moses was "a being of terrific character—cruel, vindictive, capricious and
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In the Old Testament we read of nations, such as Babylon, that were fierce in their conquering of others. When God told Habakkuk that he was raising up the Chaldeans to punish Judah, He said of them: "They all come for violence; their faces are like the east wind,
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In his debate with Antony G.N. Flew, Doctor Thomas B. Warren observed that, with all the writing Flew had done on God that he seemed to have a God fixation. The same could be said of Richard Dawkins, whose other books include The Blind Watchmaker, River out of Eden,
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In previous decades, your congenial editor has written a dozen or more articles chronicling and documenting the descent of Max Lucado into apostasy. Many of these revolved around his giving up the truth regarding salvation (as revealed in texts like Acts 2:37-41 and Acts 22:1-16) for