Philosophy
What Happens When You Die?
Philosophy and Theology The Soul and Near-Death Experiences What happens when you die? In this episode of the Table Podcast, my friend Kymberli Cook interviews me, along with Gary Habermas and Daniel Hill about near-death experiences and evidence for the soul. We focus on the intermediate state and a theology of the afterlife. I was […]
Knowledge and Certainty: Can You Know that God Exists?
Do you have to be absolutely certain about something like “God exists” before you can say that you actually know it? Christians who talk about the evidence for God sometimes get frustrated when skeptics challenge a basic premise like “everything that begins to exist has a cause,” by saying that we haven’t explored the entire universe […]
The New Atheism and the Problem of Evil
THE TABLE BRIEFING The New Atheism and the Problem of Evil BY DARRELL L. BOCK AND MIKEL DEL ROSARIO FORMAT: PDF SOURCE: BIBLIOTHECA SACRA,171 (October-December 2014): 472-77 THIS PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLE ON THE NEW ATHEISM IS PART OF THE TABLE BRIEFING SERIES. ©2014 BY DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. USED BY PERMISSION. Download PDF INTRODUCTION The 9/11 Terrorist attack on New York and Washington, […]
Is Naturalism a Good Reason to Rally?
Today, I'm featuring a special guest post from one of my former mentors, R. Scott Smith, Associate Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics at Biola University. Dr. Smith was my adviser while I was doing my graduate studies in the Christian Apologetics Program at Biola University. I studied under him in the areas of ethics, philosophy and historical […]
The Reason Rally and Reasonable Faith
The Reason Rally On March 24, Richard Dawkins and a number of outspoken atheists plan to gather in Washington D.C. for what is being called "the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history." One of the goals of the Reason Rally is to celebrate atheism and advance secularism in society. Here's what stands out […]