Dr. Keller passed away a few days ago. Apparently he had thyroid cancer in 2002, and survived that. But in 2020 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which finally took his life. As a Christian, I was trained to frame people like the person I am now as the enemy. And I would have assumed …
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/dominion-christian-revolution-tom-holland/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ I used to believe this. Perhaps because Keller taught it to me. Perhaps because Nietzsche taught it to him. But I no longer believe it because the evidence to the contrary is so great. First, consider all the secularists and atheists who are humanitarians. They are not driven by any Christian moral compass. These …
In this final of 4 installments, Keller is drawing some conclusions, and so will we. (If you haven’t already read the first 3 parts, I suggest you do for context). All people necessarily operate out ofworldviews (C.Taylor calls them ‘social imaginaries’) “Worldview” is yet another darling euphemism of evangelicals for what is really an epistemology. …
All Epistemologies Are Not Created Equal – Part 4: Which Is Best? Read More »
(Be sure to read parts 1 and 2 first!) Here is where Keller attempts to explain how you can evaluate various epistemologies (which he wrongly calls faiths) to figure out which is most valid. This is an excellent and actually essential exercise for anyone who really wants to understand truth, and how we know anything …
All Epistemologies Are Not Created Equal – Part 3: Keller’s 4 Tests Read More »
In part one we pointed out that the scientific method is not a faith, but rather another epistemology in sharp contrast to faith. We also dismantled some of Keller’s misconceptions about how science even works. Here we look at his next paragraph from the same post, starting with this quote: The secular humanist cannot provescientifically …
All Epistemologies Are Not Created Equal – Part 2: Dignity Read More »
One of the most common and insidious arguments put forward by the modern apologist is that atheism and science are just other forms of “faith”. After making that assertion, they then purport their faith to being on equal footing with science and worthy of side by side comparison to determine which is more valid. Like …
All Epistemologies Are Not Created Equal – Part 1: Is Science Faith? Read More »
Here, Keller correctly notes the biblical view of prayer. In 1 John we read: This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. 1 …
Keller is completely right here. He’s not making a biblical claim or even a moral one; it’s simply a statement of the facts. So why should we respond to this post at all? Well, the question is, why did Keller go out of his way to state the obvious here in the first place? There …
Mortality Has One Thing Going For It Over Heaven: It’s Real Read More »
Keller starts here with a hook to get you on board: Bad evangelism says: I’m right, you’re wrong He has our attention, right? Of course that’s a bad approach. It’s arrogant and confrontational, even if it’s true. Winsome techniques for engaging people are things we can learn from How To Win Friends and Influence People; …
You Don’t Have a Marketing Problem. You Have a Bad Product. Read More »
There is a phrase “god of the gaps” that is used to define the practice of invoking the concept of god to explain gaps in our scientific knowledge explaining the world around us. But as science has advanced, the gaps have drastically shrunk, leaving much less natural phenomena that even the most scientifically-ignorant skeptics (like …
