Mohler: New Atheism (A) - The Endgame Of Secularism, Pt.5

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Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, gives a review of the crisis of faith from the Enlightenment to the present, with a particular focus on the Victorian loss of faith, the secularism of hypermodernity, and the failure of the secularization thesis.

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Mohler: New Atheism (A) - The Endgame Of Secularism, Pt.4

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Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, gives a review of the crisis of faith from the Enlightenment to the present, with a particular focus on the Victorian loss of faith, the secularism of hypermodernity, and the failure of the secularization thesis.

Section 1 of 4.

Mohler: New Atheism (A) - The Endgame Of Secularism, Pt.3

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Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, gives a review of the crisis of faith from the Enlightenment to the present, with a particular focus on the Victorian loss of faith, the secularism of hypermodernity, and the failure of the secularization thesis.

Section 1 of 4.

Mohler: New Atheism (A) - The Endgame Of Secularism, Pt.2

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Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, gives a review of the crisis of faith from the Enlightenment to the present, with a particular focus on the Victorian loss of faith, the secularism of hypermodernity, and the failure of the secularization thesis.

Section 1 of 4.

Mohler: New Atheism (A) - The Endgame Of Secularism, Pt.1

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Dr. Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, gives a review of the crisis of faith from the Enlightenment to the present, with a particular focus on the Victorian loss of faith, the secularism of hypermodernity, and the failure of the secularization thesis.

Section 1 of 4.

The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity (Part 5 of 5)

This documentary presents an aspect of the theory of evolution that has so far remained hidden. It unveils the ideological links between Darwinism and totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism. You will see the fruits of Darwinism in the killing fields of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TIsqZqaj8&feature=channel_page).

The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity (Part 4 of 5)

This documentary presents an aspect of the theory of evolution that has so far remained hidden. It unveils the ideological links between Darwinism and totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism. You will see the fruits of Darwinism in the killing fields of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TIsqZqaj8&feature=channel_page).

The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity (Part 3 of 5)

This documentary presents an aspect of the theory of evolution that has so far remained hidden. It unveils the ideological links between Darwinism and totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism. You will see the fruits of Darwinism in the killing fields of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TIsqZqaj8&feature=channel_page).

The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity (Part 2 of 5)

This documentary presents an aspect of the theory of evolution that has so far remained hidden. It unveils the ideological links between Darwinism and totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism. You will see the fruits of Darwinism in the killing fields of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TIsqZqaj8&feature=channel_page).

The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity (Part 1 of 5)

This documentary presents an aspect of the theory of evolution that has so far remained hidden. It unveils the ideological links between Darwinism and totalitarian ideologies like fascism and communism. You will see the fruits of Darwinism in the killing fields of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TIsqZqaj8&feature=channel_page).

Is God imaginary?

Is God imaginary? - GotQuestions.org



Question: "Is God imaginary?"

Answer: Godisimaginary.com is not the first to claim that God is imaginary. In an article entitled “Theology and Falsification” written many years ago, Anthony Flew, one of the twentieth century’s most outspoken atheists wrote,

Two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, “Some gardener must tend this plot.” The other disagrees, “There is no gardener.” So they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. . . . Yet still the believer is not convinced. “But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible to electric shocks, who comes secretly to look after the garden he loves.” At last the Skeptic despairs. “But what remains of the original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even from no gardener at all?” (Continued here)

Source: GotQuestions.org

MacArthur: The Authoritative Nature of Truth, Pt. 2

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The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who belong to the kingdom of Satan, who are the children of the devil, and those who belong to the Kingdom of God who are the children of God. Those who are in the kingdom of Satan do not know the truth. Satan himself does not stand in the truth. There is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks, he speaks from his own nature, he is a liar and the father of lies. On the other hand, I speak the truth.
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That draws the line boldly between truth and lies...truth and lies. This is a very important thing to affirm in the society of any time period, any culture because it is critical that if someone is to be saved from sin and escape hell and be brought to the glories of heaven, he or she must believe the truth. Anything that is not the truth is a lie. Everything God has said is true. Everything Satan says is a lie in one form or another.

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(Source: Grace To You.)

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MacArthur: The Authoritative Nature of Truth, Pt. 1

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The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who belong to the kingdom of Satan, who are the children of the devil, and those who belong to the Kingdom of God who are the children of God. Those who are in the kingdom of Satan do not know the truth. Satan himself does not stand in the truth. There is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks, he speaks from his own nature, he is a liar and the father of lies. On the other hand, I speak the truth.

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That draws the line boldly between truth and lies...truth and lies. This is a very important thing to affirm in the society of any time period, any culture because it is critical that if someone is to be saved from sin and escape hell and be brought to the glories of heaven, he or she must believe the truth. Anything that is not the truth is a lie. Everything God has said is true. Everything Satan says is a lie in one form or another.

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(Source: Grace To You.)

Is all Scripture inspired by God?

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

God's Word is inspired.

Second Timothy 3:16 speaks of the inspiration of Scripture. "Inspired" is the translation of a Greek word that literally means "God-breathed." Every word of Scripture is from the mouth of God!

Theologians speak of inspiration as the mysterious process by which God worked through the authors of Scripture to produce inerrant and divinely authoritative writings. Inspiration is a mystery because Scripture doesn't explain specifically how it occurred. The only glimpse we have is from 2 Peter: "Know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God" (1:20-21).

"Interpretation" speaks of origin. Scripture didn't originate on the human level but with the Holy Spirit, who "moved" upon the authors to write it (v. 21). "Moved" is the translation of a nautical term that describes the effects of wind upon a ship as it blows against its sails and moves it through the water. Similarly, the Spirit moved on the Biblical writers to produce the Word of God in the language of men.

The human authors of Scripture knew they were writing God's Word, and they did so with confidence and authority. Often they cited or alluded to one another as authoritative agents of divine revelation (e.g., 2 Peter 3:15-16).

On a personal level, inspiration guarantees that what Scripture says, God says. It's His counsel to you; so you can study and obey it with full assurance that it is true and will never lead you astray.

For further study, consider this: Often the New Testament affirms the inspiration of the Old Testament by attributing Old Testament quotations to God Himself. For example, compare these Old Testament passages with their New Testament counterparts: Genesis 2:24 with Matthew 19:4-5; Psalm 2:1-2 with Acts 4:25-26; Isaiah 55:3 with Acts 13:34; Psalm 16:10 with Acts 13:35; Psalm 95:7-11 with Hebrews 3:7-11. How might you respond to someone who says that the Bible is merely the words of devout religious men?


Adapted from John MacArthur, Drawing Near, October 13 (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1993).

Evolution: Science or Faith?

Thanks to the theory of evolution, naturalism is now the dominant religion of modern society. Less than a century and a half ago, Charles Darwin popularized the credo for this secular religion with his book The Origin of Species. Although most of Darwin's theories about the mechanisms of evolution were discarded long ago, the doctrine of evolution itself has managed to achieve the status of a fundamental article of faith in the popular modern mind. Naturalism has now replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world, and evolution has become naturalism's principal dogma.

Naturalism is the view that every law and every force operating in the universe is natural rather than moral, spiritual, or supernatural. Naturalism is inherently anti-theistic, rejecting the very concept of a personal God. Many assume naturalism therefore has nothing to do with religion. In fact, it is a common misconception that naturalism embodies the very essence of scientific objectivity. Naturalists themselves like to portray their system as a philosophy that stands in opposition to all faith-based world-views, pretending that it is scientifically and intellectually superior precisely because of its supposed non-religious character.

Not so. Religion is exactly the right word to describe naturalism. The entire philosophy is built on a faith-based premise. Its basic presupposition--an a priori rejection of everything supernatural--requires a giant leap of faith. And nearly all its supporting theories must be taken by faith as well.

Consider the dogma of evolution, for example. The notion that natural evolutionary processes can account for the origin of all living species has never been and never will be established as fact. Nor is it "scientific" in any true sense of the word. Science deals with what can be observed and reproduced by experimentation. The origin of life can be neither observed nor reproduced in any laboratory. By definition, then, true science can give us no knowledge whatsoever about where we came from or how we got here. Belief in evolutionary theory is a matter of sheer faith. And dogmatic belief in any naturalistic theory is no more "scientific" than any other kind of religious faith.

Michael Ruse is an evolutionist who testified in the 1980s at the infamous Arkansas creationism trial (McLean v. Arkansas). During the trial, he claimed that creationism is a religion because it is grounded in unproven philosophical assumptions. But Darwinism is a science, he said, because it requires no philosophical or religious presuppositions. Ruse has since admitted that he was wrong, and he now acknowledges that evolution "is metaphysically based"--grounded in unproven beliefs that are no more "scientific" than the set of beliefs on which creationism is based. See Tom Woodward, "Ruse Gives Away the Store: Admits Evolution Is a Philosophy" on the "Origins" Web site.

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(Source: John MacArthur, Grace To You.)