J.P. Moreland has been one of the most influential Christian Thinkers in the US for the last 25 years. Talbot has put together quite a program in apologetics with JP and WIlliam Lane Craig. Great video. Books by J.P. That have deeply influenced my thinking are Scaling the Secular City, Love God with All Your Mind, and Kingdom Triangle.
The opening about reading the Bible is incredibly important. The New Testament is about the size of a short novel. Read it once a year. Most small books can be easily read in a sitting. The gospels in a couple of sittings. Do it. My own plan includes reading the gospels during advent, Acts of Apostles between Christmas and New Year, and the rest of the NT in January. The 'heptateuch (first 7 books of the OT) Feb to Easter, then the rest of the OT Easter to the beginning of Advent. During that period I also re read the shorter books of the NT. Not hard.
Read this book (now on amazon) - The Theory of Evolution is a Result of Erroneous Extrapolation. It destroys evolution using Mathematics. It strengthens your faith in God.
Love J.P. But a consequentialist argument against theistic evolution (we shouldn't believe it because it undermines people's view of the Bible) seems wrong-headed. We don't weigh a view as true or false based on the consequences to other views we hold. We determine its truth based on evidence and argument. I'm not a theistic evolutionist for evidential reasons and I imagine that JP will make that same case in his book. Hopefully sans the fallacy of consequence.
I absolutely and completely *disagree* with him saying "GOD is not enough, otherwise He wouldn't have made a world for us." GOD is more than enough. He's too much, even. Does He hold back Himself from us in this life? Yes, I believe He does to degrees, but He doesn't need anything beyond Himself to accomplish any goal. If we are hungry, GOD could feed us without food. If we are thirty, GOD could replenish us without drink. If we are tired, GOD could restore us as if we never needed sleep. If we are utterly broken and hopeless physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, GOD *CAN* FIX US IN AN INSTANT! And without the help of anything beyond His very being. Now, I think He does engage the use of many worldly things because, well, we are in our worldly vessels. We as worldly creatures enjoy worldly things much more than those things we cannot perceive nearly at all. So GOD uses those things to glorify Himself as MASTER above the material. I think it is much more glorifying to GOD when we see food or money appear out of slim chances and impossible circumstances, rather than for our stomachs to miraculously not need food anymore. This is the case, at least, for someone who doesn't have a super strong faith. The one with strong faith can not only detect and discern when GOD is moving (so as to pick up on such a miraculous occurrence as being from GOD, and not from another source.), but also, he knows that everything is in GOD's hands and gives The LORD the glory because of it.
thank you J.P., many of us changed our views on earth's age as well.
J.P. Moreland has been one of the most influential Christian Thinkers in the US for the last 25 years. Talbot has put together quite a program in apologetics with JP and WIlliam Lane Craig. Great video. Books by J.P. That have deeply influenced my thinking are Scaling the Secular City, Love God with All Your Mind, and Kingdom Triangle.
J P is another absolutely brilliant Christian mind, he explains things extremely well, great stuff here.
The opening about reading the Bible is incredibly important. The New Testament is about the size of a short novel. Read it once a year. Most small books can be easily read in a sitting. The gospels in a couple of sittings. Do it. My own plan includes reading the gospels during advent, Acts of Apostles between Christmas and New Year, and the rest of the NT in January. The 'heptateuch (first 7 books of the OT) Feb to Easter, then the rest of the OT Easter to the beginning of Advent. During that period I also re read the shorter books of the NT. Not hard.
Absolutely great answer to the question of homosexuality, very well stated.
Thank you for your sound, bible based, common sense (not so common anymore)reasoning which is sooo.......... refreshing!
Awesome message.
Is there a way to add Closed Captioning to this? I would love for my family who are Deaf be able to listen to this wisdom.
Starts at: 8:10
Awesome discussions of counseling, medications, and generalized anxiety disorders.
Well said about depression and the use of antidepressants. Remove the stigma
Amazing truths 46:25
@EricDay agreed. I can (and do)listen to him all day
Read this book (now on amazon) - The Theory of Evolution is a Result of Erroneous Extrapolation. It destroys evolution using Mathematics. It strengthens your faith in God.
Love J.P. But a consequentialist argument against theistic evolution (we shouldn't believe it because it undermines people's view of the Bible) seems wrong-headed. We don't weigh a view as true or false based on the consequences to other views we hold. We determine its truth based on evidence and argument. I'm not a theistic evolutionist for evidential reasons and I imagine that JP will make that same case in his book. Hopefully sans the fallacy of consequence.
I absolutely and completely *disagree* with him saying "GOD is not enough, otherwise He wouldn't have made a world for us."
GOD is more than enough. He's too much, even. Does He hold back Himself from us in this life? Yes, I believe He does to degrees, but He doesn't need anything beyond Himself to accomplish any goal.
If we are hungry, GOD could feed us without food.
If we are thirty, GOD could replenish us without drink.
If we are tired, GOD could restore us as if we never needed sleep.
If we are utterly broken and hopeless physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, GOD *CAN* FIX US IN AN INSTANT! And without the help of anything beyond His very being.
Now, I think He does engage the use of many worldly things because, well, we are in our worldly vessels. We as worldly creatures enjoy worldly things much more than those things we cannot perceive nearly at all. So GOD uses those things to glorify Himself as MASTER above the material. I think it is much more glorifying to GOD when we see food or money appear out of slim chances and impossible circumstances, rather than for our stomachs to miraculously not need food anymore.
This is the case, at least, for someone who doesn't have a super strong faith. The one with strong faith can not only detect and discern when GOD is moving (so as to pick up on such a miraculous occurrence as being from GOD, and not from another source.), but also, he knows that everything is in GOD's hands and gives The LORD the glory because of it.