TheVirtualWord » Apologetics http://www.thevirtualword.org Reflections on evangelical Christianity and the contemporary world Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 What is the Gospel? http://www.thevirtualword.org/2010/07/08/what-is-the-gospel/ http://www.thevirtualword.org/2010/07/08/what-is-the-gospel/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:48:29 +0000 admin http://www.thevirtualword.org/?p=265 One of the things I love about the information revolution is the way it unleashes folks creativity to a wider audience. Here is an excellent video which clearly explains the message of the Gospel in words and pictures.

What is the Gospel? from Southern Seminary on Vimeo.

(With thanks to Tim Chapman who brought it to my attention.)

]]> http://www.thevirtualword.org/2010/07/08/what-is-the-gospel/feed/ 0 Some great video resources http://www.thevirtualword.org/2009/11/17/some-great-video-resources/ http://www.thevirtualword.org/2009/11/17/some-great-video-resources/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:33:15 +0000 admin http://www.thevirtualword.org/?p=167 A Passion for Life
We are very excited by the prospect of the Passion for Life mission next year and hope you and your church are getting ready for it.

They have produced a number of useful ‘apologetic’ videos on different subjects – all of which are available here.

They include topics such as, suffering/evil, science and Christianity, reliability of the Bible etc. The speakers include folk like Don Carson, Paul Williams, Ro Moody, Andrew Sach and John Dickson.

They could be useful to show in services or in other outreach contexts. Highly recommended!

]]> http://www.thevirtualword.org/2009/11/17/some-great-video-resources/feed/ 0 Reasonable Faith? http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/27/reasonable-faith/ http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/27/reasonable-faith/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:59:24 +0000 admin http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/27/reasonable-faith/ I’m grateful to my friend AJS for pointing me to this mini-debate from the BBC Today programme between William Lane Craig and Lewis Wolpert. 

It is a classic example of two people who will not accept each other’s presuppositions. 

The scary thought is that a large number of people would fail to recognise that the second person had any presuppositions.  It is ironic in a postmodern world that so many people of ‘no faith’ are still so keen to claim a position of objectivity.

 (William Lane Craig is currently running a ‘Reasonable Faith‘ lecture and debate series.)

]]> http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/27/reasonable-faith/feed/ 0 Dawkins Delusion – follow up http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/18/dawkins-delusion-follow-up/ http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/18/dawkins-delusion-follow-up/#comments Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:58:44 +0000 admin http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/18/dawkins-delusion-follow-up/ There is an excellent article at BeThinking which goes into a little more detail regarding the weakness of many of Dawkins’ arguments.  Well worth a look.

]]> http://www.thevirtualword.org/2007/02/18/dawkins-delusion-follow-up/feed/ 0 The problem of pain http://www.thevirtualword.org/2006/01/04/the-problem-of-pain/ http://www.thevirtualword.org/2006/01/04/the-problem-of-pain/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:32:57 +0000 admin http://www.thevirtualword.org/?p=25 A very concise rebuttal of the atheist’s use of ‘the problem of pain’ from the wise Mr Motyer, re-discovered as studying his helpful commentary on Amos.

“A convinced and consistent atheist may well be ready to say that chance rules all, but if he does so he must give up using ‘the problem of pain’ as part of his anti-God argument and he must tell the rest of the world why suffering is universally held to be a problem and not just one of those things.”

J A Motyer, The Day of the Lion, IVP 1979, p31.

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