Is God Constrained by Logic?

Proud Muslimah Explains the Logic of Christianity!

Do We Start With Logic Or With The Bible?

Quantum Mechanics and Logic | 28:19 ep 158

Calvinistic Cartoons: Round and Sound

Calvinistic Cartoons: Round and Sound

Hundred Examples of Faulty Logic

I have heard of couple of attempts by Atheists to summarize proofs for the existence of God from Dr Victor Reppert. It's satirical but I don't think that it shows a complete misunderstanding of what the arguments.  I think the graphic on the right summarizes the level of intelligence demonstrated on these pages.

Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence.

Hundreds of Proofs of God's Non-Existence.

Truthbomb Apologetics: Short Film: Cruel Logic

Chad, from the Truthbomb Apologetics blog, posted a great video putting naturalistic moral arguments to the test. The video puts those arguments to their logical conclusion. At the end of it all if there is not objective morality how do we really determine what is right and what is wrong? Without God, we don't.


Truthbomb Apologetics: Short Film: Cruel Logic

Christian Logic, or Secular Ignorance?

Today on his webcast, The Dividing Line, Dr James White gave a rebuttal to the above image. It was really well done and the thing that he brought out is that the image is a true depiction of what "Bigotry" looks like. The image does not correctly express what Biblical logic truly is. The image is bulit around the popular but failed argument that Christians reject Homosexuality because the Bible says so, but ignores other laws in the Book of Leviticus. You can listen to James White's discussion at this link: here.


Christian Logic, or Secular Ignorance?

Does the Bible teach that faith is opposed to logic and evidence? « Wintery Knight

Wintery Knight posted a great article about what faith really is. Today, people are really confused but this will help you if you think faith is antithetical to logic and evidence.

Does the Bible teach that faith is opposed to logic and evidence? « Wintery Knight

THEOparadox - The Biblical Paradox Blog: Can Biblical Paradoxes Be Reconciled?

Here is an awesome article. Very, very insightful!

Of course they can. By definition, a paradox is not an actual contradiction but an apparent one.

When we say that paradoxes are apparent contradictions, and not actual contradictions, we affirm that they can be logically reconciled. The important question is not whether they can be reconciled, but by whom. We must always affirm that any collection of true statements are logically reconciled in the mind of our wise and omniscient God.

Read the whole article at the following link.

THEOparadox - The Biblical Paradox Blog: Can Biblical Paradoxes Be Reconciled?

The "Debunking Christianity" anti-Christian support group cries out for help | True Freethinker

Mariano has been one of those following the arguments discussions with JohnnyP over an essay he wrote that was posted on John Loftus' blog Debunking Christianity throughout the month of October. I appreciate him posting his thoughts on the exchange. I only hope that atheists everywhere will come clean with the truths that God has placed in their hearts and turn to Him. In John Loftus' case, he reads the Bible and History and shore up his own flawed logic. If you look in every atheist's life I'm sure you can come up with some kind of logic like this (Thanks, Mariano) graphic which sums up Loftus "De-Conversion" logic. It amounts to: I love my sin, and no, I'm not going to repent for it. When you listen to Loftus he barely stops short of saying "If God's real, it is all his fault not mine.


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Breakdown of Internet Arguments [Diagram]

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Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Never Throw Rocks at Scholars in Ivory Towers

This is a really good article on the Beggars All blog that addresses the age-old argument "The scholars who agrees with me are better than the scholars that agree with you!" This is a must read!

Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Never Throw Rocks at Scholars in Ivory Towers

Faithful Thinkers: Understanding and Belief

Luke Nix has posted a great article about how understanding and belief correlate. Luke was inspired by the following

Not too long ago I was discussing naturalistic evolution with an atheist. After a while of being unable to convince me of its truth, he told me that if I understood it, I would believe it. And further that since I didn't believe it or understand it, that any arguments I offered would be strawmen, and he didn't have to respond to them. I let the discussion rest at that point. Not because I saw the problem with what he was saying, but more because I was caught "off guard" and saw that he had actually come to that conclusion before we even began the conversation.

I wasn't too worried about it at the time, but I've come across similar claims from those who don't agree with me on other things as well. So I'm going to take a few minutes to put together a response for such claims.

I have ran across similar arguments and I think his response is well-worth considering. Feel free to read his post at the following link.


Faithful Thinkers: Understanding and Belief

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FacePalm of the Day #92 - Debunking Christianity: Quote of the Day

John Loftus is always good for an example of a FacePalm worthy comment. He seems to have millions of them! Case in point:

All religions have the same faith-based foundation. When faith is a foundation anything can be believed. --John W. Loftus

To which the following comment was added by renolize:

Faith is the foundation and fear is the stick in Christianity. It is true, however, that with faith anything can be believed. One can look forward to any sort of an afterlife. 72 virgins? Streets paved in gold? Life in other dimensions? Gods and goddesses of their own worlds? Xenu will welcome you in person? The list goes on and on.

What will you do for your faith? Murder an abortion doctor? Fly into a building filled with unbelievers? Enslave a population? Torture heretics? Burn the unrighteous at the stake? Go to war for god?Faith is the path to blindness. Reason is a reality check. This world could use more reality checks and a lot less faith.

I am convinced that Loftus and those who agree with them are described in Romans 8:5

⁵ Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. - Romans 8:5-8

IF you are unable to reason correctly, and we know for a fact that we are not perfect in that (we all know what it is like to reason incorrectly), why would anyone of us think we can trust our reasoning to know what is right and wrong? WE cannot. None of us is that smart or awesome enough to know the right things and hit it every single time. We need God's help. This brings us up the Loftus misunderstanding of what "faith" is. Loftus is not describing Biblical faith, he is describing a faith that is not commended in the Bible at all. In Greek the word is "Pistas" and Pistas is not the reason why people murder abortion doctors, fly planes into building filled with believers and unbelievers, enslave populations, burn people we think are unrighteous, torture heretics, or start wars. This is why we have the gifs of the Bible. It is the check and balance that tells us objectively if we are living out the faith as we ought. Faith is not found on just anything and everything. Faith isn't something that is true just because you believe it. The Bible was true before I was born and it will true after I die too. Biblical faith can only be a part of your life as a gift from God of his self revelation. It is based in part on this evidence - as well as history, science, archaeology, and as well as many other things. Before Loftus criticizes faith, he should understand what "Faith" is correctly.

⁶ And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works, so that no one can boast. ¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. - Ephesians 2:6-10

Debunking Christianity: Quote of the Day

Fallacy Friday: Denying the Antecedent - Apologetics 315

This week Matthew Flannagan and Brian Auten's posts deal with the fallacy called "denying the antecedent".

Fallacy Friday: Denying the Antecedent - Apologetics 315

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Fallacy Friday: False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc - Apologetics 315

Yesterday, Brian Auten and Matthew Flannagan teamed again to provide another great article detailing another logical fallacy. Follow the link to see it!

Fallacy Friday: False Cause & Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc - Apologetics 315

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Fallacy Friday: Tu Quoque (But you did it too!) - Apologetics 315

This week, Brian Auten and  Matt Flannagan covered the fallacy called Tu Quoque which is committed:

...when one rebuts a particular criticism of one’s own position by showing one’s opponent’s position is subject to the same criticism; this is done instead of showing that one’s own position is not susceptible to the criticism.

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Fallacy Friday: The Straw Man - Apologetics 315

Matthew Flannagan and Brian Auten have again teamed up to deliver more great information. This time Flannagan defines the "Straw Man" fallacy.

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Fallacy Friday: The Ubiquitous Ad Hominem | MandM

Brian Auten has teamed up with Matthew Flannagan to produce a series of podcasts/blog articles enumerating and describing logical fallacies and things about logic in general. This last Friday Matthew Flannagan covered "Ad Hominem" arguments. He did a great job on the program and gave good examples also. Ad Hominem arguments are what one uses when they have no other argument of value.  Follow the link to get the podcast and blog post.

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