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Does a candle really illumine the darkness?

December 28, 2012 by Randal

In the Christmas eve service our pastor poignantly declared “The faintest light can illumine the deepest darkness” as he lit a candle. He then started lighting the candles of the congregants (for we had all been granted our own slender white candle upon entry to the sanctuary). Soon the sanctuary was brightened (if not quite […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analogy, metaphor, nature, preaching, science

The problem of half-baked rebuttals

February 9, 2012 by Randal

In “Why should a Christian think the Bible is inspired? (Part 1)” I addressed the following two issues: “The question is minimally how a person can rationally believe a particular canon of books is divinely inspired. More robustly, it is how they can know a particular canon of books is divinely inspired.” I then proposed […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analogy, argument. epistemology, testimony

Does love of one’s spouse require hatred of all others?

December 27, 2011 by Randal

When I was out walking the dog this afternoon I realized I left off one of the most glaring problems with David Houston’s marriage analogy. Remember, this analogy is intended to explain why it is sweeter to discover that God hates some and loves others rather than the Arminian milquetoast view of God loving all. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analogy, arminianism, Calvinism, metaphor, omnibenevolence

On God, leprechauns and really bad analogies

June 29, 2011 by Randal

My first smile this morning occurred as I walked past a looking glass and caught a glimpse of my handsome visage peering back at me.  My second smile came when I read the comment of Curt Cameron (not to be confused with Kirk Cameron) in response to my discussion of protest atheism. Let’s begin by citing […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: analogy, atheism, problem of evil, protest atheism, theodicy

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