Apprentice Owl Apologetics

               I have been feeling recently that I needed to get back to basics for apologetics, as my original intent of this blog was to communicate what I have learned as I studied apologetics. I don’t discount my more recent work, but I may have been getting into a rut of writing opinion pieces about current events and politics. I may still contribute a post or two in 2019, but my main goal for the next few months is to write a series that looks at the topics that I think should be “basic training” for up and coming apologists. The first question that I want to look at are objections to the resurrection of Jesus, since that is the cornerstone of our faith (1 Corinthians 15:14).               What I mean by objections to the resurrection, are people who look at the scriptures and think that there are glaring wholes in the gospels that exclude the idea of the resurrection. This...

               In one of my previous posts, I had talked about the Old Testament indirectly showing that we as Americans should work to maintain as small a government as possible, as wanting a more worldly government was part of the Israelites’ downfall into the cycle of trouble and redemption with God. When I posted this, some acquaintances on social media mentioned Romans 13:1-7 and posed a question to me, as in the title of this post. Does the governing authority bear the mark of God as he has established the governing authorities? I think the answer depends on a case by case scenario, as I plan to demonstrate.               I do agree with the inerrancy of scripture, and Romans 13:1-7 does ordain us to submit to the governing authorities, I don’t agree with some interpretations that say that we should let the governing powers not be held in check by the people, or to let them...

                 This isn’t necessarily apologetics related, but something I wanted to get written down. A few days ago, I had a dream that I was giving a sermon to what appeared to be a high school pep rally. I don’t think this meant I will be giving this sermon, or that even I should be a preacher, but I what I recall is the content of what I was talking about.                 I was talking to the students, and giving an analogy about Christ and his salvation. Imagine we had to run a ridiculous marathon, say New York to Los Angeles in one sitting. There is no way we could do this without dropping dead (the origin of the marathon story came to mind, where the Greek messenger dropped dead after running   back to Athens to report their victory). With this in mind Jesus came and offered us his car to make this trip instead, so we could make it because Jesus is d...

                 If anyone follows me on social media, you probably notice that I fall on the conservative/libertarian spectrum of politics.   I do want to say that I can be persuaded depending on this issue to look and possibly accept other sides, but I want to present my main reason as to why I think one should be careful if they are a Jew/Christian, and think that we should be giving our power to the governing bodies because they think we should be like everyone else.                 In the Old Testament, the Israelites also wanted to be like everyone else, so they asked God to elect a king to rule over them (read 1 Samuel 8) because they saw that every other nation around them was ruled by a king. Now, many of these nations were deemed to be wicked, and ceremonial laws were put in place by God to help separate Israel from the rest of the world, because God...

                 Recently, a gay, Muslim, drag queen (yes you read that right) was featured by buzz feed. In the interview, this person claimed that quantum mechanics helped them to understand that gender was on a spectrum and it helped them come to grips with their identity. InspiringPhilosophy had a Facebook post describing this and had a short snippet on how this reasoning is flawed. I have also made comments like this when I talk about science, faith, and morality regarding various specific topics, such as whether or not homosexuality is genetic. What I would like to do today is to bring these threads together and expound a bit on this topic of morality as we understand it as Christians vs. what we observe in nature.                 We can see all sorts of things in nature that we can say are morally good, like mice supporting each other through a maze. We can ...

                 I’m sure the current political climate in the United States needs no introduction, so I can dive straight in to this post. Should Christians get involved in politics, and should we be taking sides with each political controversy? This falls into a previous post of mine, describing the role of emotions in truth arguments. What I would like to do is have a short post describing my thoughts on the current political process, and why Christians should be interested in truth over politics.                 I think as Christians, truth and justice should matter over politics. I will admit that neither left, right, or moderate has a monopoly on these. I think that we should be looking at each political issue on a case by case basis, and deciding what is best there, regardless of what side of the aisle it falls on. I think what matters is whether or not our ...

                In the era of #metoo and social media conflicts causing people to lose their jobs or job opportunities (see the story about the NASA intern who cussed out her boss and was fired), one wonders if people are going about interpersonal communication the wrong way. I typically hear pastors and fellow Christians saying to cast our worries and problems onto Jesus, and that will take care of it. I think this view is slightly flawed. Indeed, we should cast our worries onto Jesus, but problems will still come our way, and how we deal with them is part of our testimony of the transformation of Christ in our lives to the rest of the world. However, my views mean nothing, this all comes to scripture and what God has told us, so what I want to do is to show where God has given us an example of interpersonal communication handled in a godly manner. For this, I want to break down a few of my one-sentence personal thoughts    ...