If you’re avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God. – [...]
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Are You Avoiding Him as Savior?
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Goodness, Living Morally, Savior, Sin, Teacher on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Explosive Growth of Christianity in Africa
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Africa, Bible, Christianity, Good and Evil, Jesus Christ on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why has Christianity grown so explosively in these places [Africa]? African scholar Lamin Saunneh gives a most intriguing answer. Africans, he said, had a long tradition of belief in a supernatural world of good and evil spirits. When Africans began to read the Bible in their own languages many began to see in Christ the [...]
The Independence of Reason from Natural Selection
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Dennett, Evolutionary Biology, Leon Wieseltier, Natural Selection, Reason, Thomas Nagel on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Despite popular books like those of Dennett, Hawkins and Harris, which try to use the evolutionary clue-killer on religion, more and more thinkers are seeing through it, and not just orthodox believers, but those like Thomas Nagel. Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, points out the flaw in the clue-killer argument in [...]
Christians Should Believe Others Are Morally Superior
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Christianity, Forgive, Goodness, Grace, Morally Superior, Other Faiths, Salvation, Savior, Wisdom on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity not only leads its members to believe people of other faiths have goodness and wisdom to offer, it also leads them to expect that many will live lives morally superior to their own. Most people in our culture in our culture believe that, if there is a God, we can relate to him and [...]
The Biblical View of Things is Resurrection
Posted in Keller, Tim on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Biblical view of things is resurrection – not a future that is just a consolation for the life we never had but a restoration of the life you always wanted. This means that every horrible thing that ever happened will not only be undone and repaired but will in some way make the eventual [...]
Christianity Does Not Simply Replace Our Natural Life
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Christianity, Gehenna, God's Omnipresence, Natural Life, Obedience, Spiritual Life on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not. Christianity does not simply replace our natural life and substitute a new one; it is rather a new organisation which exploits, to its own [...]
Evolution Does Not Provide Faculties that Help Us With an Accurate and True Picture of the World
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Atheist, Evolution, Thomas Nagel on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thomas Nagel, the prominent philosopher and atheist, agrees in the last chapter of his book, The Last Word. He writes that to be sure my mind is telling me what is really, truly out there in the world, I must “follow the rules of logic because they are correct – not merely because I am [...]
Hey Mr. Evolutionist, How Can You Be Sure?
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Belief in God, Evolution, Evolutionary Theorists on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despite fierce debates within the field, evolutionary theorists all agree that our capacity to believe in God is hardwired into the physiology because it was directly or indirectly associated with trials that helped our ancestors adapt to their environment. That’s why arguments for God appeal to so many of us. That’s all there is to [...]
When Will the Secularists Take the Battle to the End and Be Consistent?
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Human Rights, Michael Perry, Morality, Nietzsche, Sartre, Secular Thinking, Secularist on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Law professor Michael J.] Perry’s new book, Toward a Theory of Human Rights, is very significant. Perry concludes that though it is clear “there is a religious ground for the morality of human rights…It is far from clear that there is a non-religious ground, a secular ground, for human rights. Perry lays out Nietzsche’s well-known [...]
Our Unfulfillable Longing, A Proof for God
Posted in Keller, Tim, tagged Beauty, Belief in God, Innate Desire, Joy, Love on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Doesn’t the unfulfillable longing evoked by beauty qualify as an innate desire? We have a longing for joy, love and beauty that no amount or quality of food, sex, friendship or success can satisfy. We want something that nothing in this world can fulfill. Isn’t that at least a clue that this “something” that we [...]
