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Cross Examination: The Cosmological Argument

The cosmological argument is a classic philosophical argument for a First Cause to the universe, which is usually extended to be an argument for a god that created the universe. It has been used for centuries in many different ways. I’ve run across this argument several times in my Cross Examination investigation. Continue reading

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Cross Examination: Faith and Belief

Many of the disagreements that have arisen in the course of this Cross Examination series have come up either due to a lack of definition, or because of a difference in definition. For example, the difference between “absolute omnipotence” and “essential omnipotence” led some to make the statement that “God cannot be both omnipotent and omniscient,” a claim which I wrote about in a previous post. Continue reading

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Cross Examination: The Will to Believe

My Cross Examination series has led me to read some of the more recent popular books regarding atheism and Christianity. It seems like the popular books do not often have the evidence that I’m looking for, on either side of the debate, but they have pointed me towards some of the more fundamental, though more obscure, sources of the debate. Continue reading

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Book Review: Letter to a Christian Nation

As promised, I began my book study in my “Cross Examination” series with the book, “Letter to a Christian Nation” by the famed atheist author, Sam Harris. It was a short read (less than a hundred pages), and it adequately (though unpersuasively) lays out the case against Christianity.
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