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Article 2. Whether it can be demonstrated that God exists? Objection 1. It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated. For it is an article of faith that God exists. But what is of faith cannot be demonstrated, because a demonstration produces scientific knowledge; whereas faith is of the unseen (Hebrews 11:1). Therefore [...]

Join Michael Patton and Lindsey Price as they discuss reason #4 on the Top Ten Reasons NOT to be a Christian series. #3 If I become a Christian, God will make me healthy and wealthy. During this lesson, Lindsey and I draw from the Bible and personal experience concluding that the health-wealth Gospel is not [...]

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See updated version here. Protestantism is not perfect. No informed Protestant would claim such. Evangelicalism has major problems. This is nothing new. But Protestants have always thought the strengths of Protestantism outweigh the weaknesses. Otherwise, we would not be Protestant! While I often write about the weaknesses of our system, sometimes complaining about Evangelical shames, [...]

I heard recently that Sunday morning (church) is the most segregated hour in America. I was walking through the halls of my church yesterday and noticed that there were two black people. This caught my attention and, in a very real sense, I was ashamed. Why? Because it caught my attention. I don’t want to [...]

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I got this post in an email today and found it very troubling, yet characteristic of the stories I hear everyday about people who leave Christianity after being brought up in a ridged fundementalistic tradition. However, I did find it interesting that Nathan (the man who wrote this) gave Christianity a second chance to alleviate [...]

I recently heard that depression is greater today than any other time in history. It is said that today we have more depression—ten times as much—than during the “Great Depression” of the 1940s. Are we living in the “Greater Depression”? Here are some stats: Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% [...]

Is natural revelation God’s word? Or does Scripture only qualify for such a title? In other words, when nature speaks clearly about something can we say that this represents the voice of God to the same degree as Scripture? Natural revelation is God’s communication through creation. It is seen in the vast expanse of the universe and [...]