Christian Apologetics Alliance

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Is Abortion Women’s Right To Control Their Bodies?

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Women’s rights clearly include their right to health and to make fully informed decisions regarding their bodies. Does a woman's right to decide what she will and will not do with her body extend to cover actions affecting the fetus who may reside in her body? Does a woman’s right to control her own reproduction include a right to induced abortion? Granting the notion that our … [Read more...]

You Can't Prove Breakfast

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Christianity is unlike any other religion in that is rises or falls based upon a historical claim. While other religions use subjective means that cannot be evidenced one way or another (e.g. Mormonism says you know it is correct because your heart will tell you), Christianity is based upon something objective.  Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, Now if Christ is preached, … [Read more...]

Playlist for an Apologist

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A good song can go a long way into brightening your day. Don’t believe me? Just ask King Saul about the songs David would play and how they caused an evil spirit to depart from him. In fact, even God loves Himself a good melody. Psalm 150:3-6 mentions the many musical ways we can praise Him. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. … [Read more...]

Is the Incarnation Incoherent?

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Recently I wrote about the Trinity.  What about Jesus himself?  At first glance divinity and humanity are patently incompatible.  Yet Christians affirm that Jesus is both God and human as God incarnate.  Indeed, “if anything appears to be a contradiction, surely this is it!  How can Jesus be both God and man, infinite and finite, Creator and creature?”[1]  Once again, the … [Read more...]

The Logical Case against Naturalism

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Science has been hijacked by philosophical naturalism – the belief that everything originated naturally, operates naturally, and is sustained naturally apart from a Designer. Only natural explanations are allowed. Consequently, any scientist who offers a supernatural (ID) rather than a natural explanation risks both job and reputation. … [Read more...]

One Year Ago, Apologetics Saved My Faith

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I have been a blogger for three years now. To date, this is the most personal post I have ever written. I debated about writing this post but I felt compelled to share my experience in hopes that it will encourage Christians to take apologetics seriously, because there may come a day when it may be the difference between remaining a Christian or walking away. I know it was for … [Read more...]

Undesigned Coincidences: Part 2

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Talking about undesigned coincidences in the abstract can take us only so far. There is nothing like seeing a few of them for oneself to make the idea clear. We will start with an example from William Paley’s Horae Paulinae, the first work to explore this sort of argument in detail. Paley’s object is to show the numerous correspondences between the Pauline epistles and the … [Read more...]

Unstoppable

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When a young friend died at the tender age of 15, Kirk Cameron was left wrestling with the perennial faith-breaking questions, Why does God allow suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people? Matt had lived a full 2/3 of his young life with cancer. His parents were good people. They loved God, even as they had to watch their son slip away. Kirk loved God too, but he had a … [Read more...]

But, I don't have time for apologetics!

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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates (469-399 BC) I often get the impression that people - even those already interested in apologetics - feel they just don't have time for apologetics. It is as if I can 'hear' them thinking, "well, that is for you apologists, but the rest of us (with real lives) simply don't have time for things like that." What they may not … [Read more...]

Richard Dawkins and the 'Absence of Belief'

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Richard Dawkins and the New Atheists have popularized the idea that atheism, contrary to other positions, is not a belief; it is simply ‘the absence of belief’ in God or a supreme being.  It almost sounds esoteric. Theists believe that God exists and atheists merely lack that belief. Well, on that view, my Chevy is just as much of an atheist as Richard Dawkins, for it, too, … [Read more...]

Unity Statement

In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity. The Christian Apologetics Alliance (CAA) is united in our Statement of Faith. The CAA does not, as an organization, have positions on many of the doctrinal or theological debates that take place within the church. Our primary concern is to promote the gracious, rational defense of the central claims of Christianity and the critique of opposing systems of thought. The CAA joyfully welcomes Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and diverse Protestant believers, and we are committed to treating all these traditions with respect in our community.

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