Attacks on the Word Made Flesh

Attacks on the ability of words to communicate truth is an attack not only on the image of God in man, but on the Word made flesh (John 1:14) Himself.

Doug

Sophisticated Castles of Sand

We should not shrink back from contending for the faith no matter how sophisticated its opponents may appear, because castles of sand have a natural tendency to collapse regardless of their complexity.

Capitalism and the Nature of Man

Why is it that people attack capitalism by stating that it is driven by greed and assume that man is basically evil and cannot be trusted with their success, yet in their “redistribution of wealth” models they assume that man is virtuous and will continue to be industrious to produce wealth for the country to redistribute even when their success is taken away from them and used at the government’s discretion?

Doug

The Empiricist's Dilemma

To rationalize that you should only believe things you can experience with your senses is to argue for the invalidity of your rationale, since rationality itself cannot be tasted, touched, seen, heard, or smelled.

Doug

What is Justice?

Is justice relative to the individual or will of the community, or is there actually a place where justice is grounded? In this short clip Dean Donald McConnell of Trinity Law School gives a few thoughts.

Are Atheists Free Thinkers?

Atheists often argue that they are free thinkers, but is this acutally the case?

Doug

Understanding the Problem of Evil

The academic problem of evil comes up quit often when talking about theology and non-Christian worldviews, but often many people do not fully understand the debate. This video gives a brief overview.

Doug

Empty Deceit and "Christian" Self-help

To the atheist, the conscience is the end product of a long line of evolutionary and social conditioning, so when it bothers them they are not really guilty of anything. As James Sire puts it, they are really only guilty of guilt. This is why we live in a culture of therapy. The goal is to rid ourselves of the feeling of guilt instead of the guilt itself. Unfortunately, we see this being translated into many churches as sin and the cross of Christ are ignored and replaced with a "Christian" self-help regimen. So even under the name of Jesus, empty deceit can hold sway.

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

-Colossians 2:8-

Doug Eaton

Audio Resources (Theology, Apologetics, and Philosophy)

Here are the links.All Past Shows...
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

Postmodernism's Influence of Evangelical and Emergent Churches...
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

10 Arguments Thoughtful Atheists Won't Use...
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

Eschatology 101: Repent! The End is (possibly) Near(er)! ...
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

Christianity and Liberalism: Can Both Survive?
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

Unitarianism, Universalism, Inclusivism Against the Kingdom of God ...
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

The Glorious Reformation
http://www.apologetics.com/index.php?...

God Bless,

Doug

Postmodernism's influence upon the Evangelical and Emergent Churches (MP3)

Here is the link latest apologetics.com radio show. In it, Christopher Neiswonger and I discuss postmodernism and the emergent church.

Postmodernism's influence upon the Evangelical and Emergent Churches

This episode can also be downloaded through the apologetics.com podcast in itunes.

Here is the synopsis of the radio show...

Christopher Neiswonger and Doug Eaton discuss some of the ways in which secular philosophers have had a direct influence upon how the Church is doing theology and the ways that that thought might be irreconcilable with traditional orthodox Christian theology. (W/calls last half hour)

Subjects include: Postmodernism, Emergent theology, J. Gresham Machen, Richard Rorty, Brian McClaren, Tony Snow, propositional truth, faith and practice, being followers of Jesus, Christendom, law and gospel, communitarianism, individualism, metanarrative, narrative, evangelization, hermeneutics, universalism, doubt, Rob Bell, Michael Horton, analogy, absolute truth, Augustine, C.S. Lewis and others.

God Bless,

Doug

"God is Dead" (Understanding Nietzsche)

Ten Keys to Evangelical Political Involvement (Donald McConnell)

This is another lecture from the God and Governing Conference hosted by Trinity Law School. If you want more from Dean Donald McConnell, be sure to click his link in the sidebar "Trinitarian Don."

Does God Learn?: Problems with Open Theism

Sustaining Freedom - Os Guinness

Here is a lecture given by Os Guinness at Trinity Law School’s God and Governing Conference.
For more information about Trinity Law School
Visit www.TLS.edu or Call 800-922-4748

10 Signs You May Have Just Entered and Emergent Church

Ten Arguments Thoughtful Atheists Won’t Use

Awhile back I had written a post called, Pitfalls for Atheists to Avoid.

Below is the link to the latest Apologetics.com radio show covering 10 of those pitfalls and why they are not good arguments.

Ten Arguments Thoughtful Atheists Won’t Use… The Radio Show by Apologetics.com

Doug

The post was also turned into a video blog which you can view below.

Obama, Machiavelli, and the Bible - Vishal Mangalwadi

Bad Advice for Atheists

Through countless discussions surrounding atheism, it has become apparent that someone must be feeding bad advice to atheists. Since the following errors are made repeatedly, this partial list has been populated to warn atheists of this underground movement in order for them to avoid these pitfalls. If you are an atheist and hear any of the following advice, realize that if used, it will be harmful to your cause.

1. Assume that because you compare theism to believing in pink unicorns or fairy tales that you have made a good argument.

2. Become hostile and use degrading vulgarities while maintaining that Christianity is an immoral religion.

3. When you are having trouble answering an argument posed by a Christian theist, simply say, “well even if this were true, it doesn’t prove the existence of the ‘Christian’ God.”

4. Assume that simply because you explain a phenomena from a naturalistic perspective that it constitutes an argument which must be true.

5. When arguing against the Christian God, simply say that you only believe in “one less god” than most people, as if that does not require you to defend an atheistic understanding of cosmology, anthropology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of politics, philosophy of science, and epistemology.

6. Make metaphysical statements that suggest that metaphysics are a useless waste of time.

7. Argue that we should only believe things proven by empirical evidence without proving it with empirical evidence.

8. Use logic like it is a universal, transcendent, unchanging reality when atheistic naturalism cannot account for universal, transcendent, unchanging realities.

9. Argue that there is no evidence to believe in the existence of God because all the evidence that is produced fails to pass the rules of evidence which have been constructed from the belief that God does not exist.

10. Argue that human beings are robots, puppets, and machines programmed by natural selection in a closed system of cause and effect, and then argue for free thought and moral agency.

11. Place your ultimate trust in human reason while believing that man’s mind evolved from lower animals such as monkeys and will continue to evolve until we become the monkeys from which the minds of the future will have evolved.

Doug Eaton

Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Emergent Church Lecture

Here is a link to a lecture I gave recently on modernism, postmodernism, and the emergent church.

Postmodernism and the Emergent Church - Doug Eaton

God Bless,

Doug

Socialism Loves Misery

“As love of liberty grows dim under socialistic suffocation, as coercion increases, the more brutal it will become. The basic methods of procedure were stated by Karl Marx, and they have been accepted, in varying degrees, by many who are not conscious of their origin. Marx was deeply interested in progress. For this reason, a clever social planner will provoke violence and bloody conflicts. Happy men are weak, but if they can be made wretched, they can be stirred to action. Class must be played against class, and hatred must be stimulated. The economy of nations must be ruined by huge governmental expenditures that lead to bankruptcy. Demagogues, willing to be looked on as God, will deceive the people with impossible promises of freedom from want and freedom from fear. Then a dictator can liquidate the remaining opposition and take control.


Gordon Clark, A Christian View of Men and Thing P. 56 (1952)