Occupation: Professor Birth: 1952
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments..
The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to as….
We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe..
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see" reality thro….
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The ….
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The ….
Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to….
The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical sto….
Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would descr….
Today, under the influences of Eastern religions and philosophies imported into the West, many Christians confuse God's Spirit with our spirit and th….
As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of….
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry..
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Ch….
If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into thinking in ways….
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defen….
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of ….
Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true….
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says..
The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's u….
Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'.
"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses….