Here is the place to start. If this one isn’t settled, it is kind of hard to become wise.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”–Psalm 111:10
Andy Stanly’s paraphrase is helpful – “God, the answer is yes, now what’s the question?”
It is that simple and that challenging. I am not God. And I need a lot of wise input.
Well, tomorrow is another year. Thank you for being a part of Think Christianly. We are excited about the next year!
If you are wanting to become better equipped to defend your faith, then it would be hard to find a better resource page than that of Apologetics 315. Here is their end of year post with links to lots of outstanding material. (Thanks Brian for all your work!). For all of their resources, click here. Defending the faith once delivered (Jude 3) is a team effort.
Here is a portion of that post with links to some of the big debates:
In the area of debate, there were a number of notable ones this year:
• The Origins of Life debate with Meyer, Sternberg, Prothero & Shermer.
• The Alvin Plantinga & Daniel Dennett dialogue.
• Bart Ehrman vs. James White: Did the Bible Misquote Jesus?
• List of Michael Licona Debates here.
• William Lane Craig debates Christopher Hitchens here.
• Frank Turek has two debates with Hitchens here and here.
• Douglas Wilson debates Christopher Hitchens here.
• William Lane Craig debates Francisco Ayala on Intelligent Design here.
• William Lane Craig debates Richard Carrier on the Resurrection here.
• Douglas Geivett debates John Shook on the Existence of God here.
• Michael Licona debates Bart Ehrman on the Resurrection here.
• James White debates Dan Barker on Jesus’ existence here.
• William Lane Craig debates George Williamson on God’s existence here.
• Dinesh D’Souza debates Daniel Dennett on God as a man-made invention here.
• Dinesh D’Souza debates Christopher Hitchens here.
• William Lane Craig debates Lewis Wolport on God as a delusion here.
• J.P. Moreland debates Clancy Martin on the existence of God here.
• Mary Jo Sharp debated Ehteshaam Gulam on the resurrection here.
• Phil Fernandes debated Eddie Tabash on God’s existence here.
• Richard Dawkins talked to John Lennox about science and God here.
Happy New Year!
I came across this great quote (HT / Apologetics 315)…
“As a disciple, the Christian philosopher is enthralled with Jesus, he trusts Him, and wants everything in his life to enhance Jesus’ reputation among the nations. The Christian is here primarily to serve a Name, not to make a name, and the disciple recognizes that in Jesus all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge reside.”– J.P. Moreland
Amen.
“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”—which means, “God with us.”–Matthew 1:23
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4We write this to make our joy complete.”–1 John 1:1-5
Here is a helpful lecture by Jay Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God.