Apologetics.com Neiswonger

“You have given us a good explanation, one that many opponents of Calvinism don’t understand. It still doesn’t explain why God chooses some and not others, or rather why he would choose some for destruction. That is left to the inscrutable, hidden, mysterious will of God. Barth pointed out the problem with that, is that […]

A Recent Spate of Calvinism.  Part Four.
When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously.  We all know that man has a will.  The question is generally as to what man desires, not whether or not he does so.  There has been […]

A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three.
“Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin.” Augustine.
“Of our own we have nothing but sin.” Augustine.
Calvinism can make your head hurt. You get into all of the confusing little nooks and crannies of the Christian faith just to […]

A Presuppa-what? (Comments on an ageing Presuppositionalism.)
If I had a’ dollar for every time somebody asked me why I’m a presuppositionalist, I’d have a lot of dollars.  But why is it all so confusing?  I think that the most basic task of an apologist is the examination, analysis, and promotion or refutation of a person’s […]

A recent spate of Calvinism.  Part One.
Calvinism… oooo… spooky.  If half of the things that people say about Calvinism were even half true I could never be a Calvinist.  It’s not so much that people disagree about these things, Christians have always disagreed about these things, but the zeal for misrepresentation that should cause us […]

On Religious Experience: Part Two, A response to a friend.
As to “proof”, it doesn’t seem to be that I am using the word in an erroneous fashion as much as that you are defining the term with an erroneous restriction that does not take into account, not only the common use of the term according […]

On Religious Experience: The use of it as Proof for the existence of God.
Part 1.
Religious experience is, I think, the basis for a very powerful argument, but only powerful upon people that have had such an experience.  (This is a complicated claim that I will expand upon a little later.) With my theological background flowing […]

On History and Evidence. (A Response to a friend)
Interesting stuff. I like the Plantinga thing because one of the worlds foremost philosophers is actually taking the time to say that this guy doesn’t know philosophy from a hole in the ground.1 And you are right in saying that the rubber hits the road in the […]