Emotions vs. Reason

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief | Comments Off

For Easter this year, my family and I were out of town. We ended up attending Easter services at Central Christian Church in Henderson, NV. After the opening worship band left the stage, there was a young man who came out and presented a monologue/poem/rap that highlighted a good deal of what Christianity is about. I was impressed at the broad spectrum of doctrine, challenges and truths that were professed during this brief presentation. While following ...

The God-Man

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Belief | Comments Off

If you've been around Christianity long enough, you've probably heard someone say that Jesus was "fully man and fully God." Perhaps you've heard some other variation. Perhaps you've wondered how that is possible. Hopefully, at the very least, you took it on faith. Better than that, hopefully you've wrestled with it a bit in order to get an understanding that you feel comfortable with intellectually. One way that I have seen this characterized is that Jesus ...

Picking and Choosing

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics, God's Character | Comments Off

If you were to ask most apologists, Christian philosophers or theologians what the most difficult objection was to Christianity, they would mostly give you the same answer. The Problem of Evil. Some might refer to this as the "Problem of Evil and Suffering" or some such thing, but it usually involves the same idea. Briefly, the Problem of Evil is the argument that says that if God is all loving and all good and all powerful, ...