(Update: Apparently I  confuse Michael Sudduth with Michael Butler. My apologies!). But anyway, most people these days know Sudduth from his recent book The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology. He’s converted to Hinduism. Read his own testimony here. Events such as these remind us of a number of things. But three are worth pointing out:  [...]

The laws of logic have played a consistent role in Reformed apologetics in the past century. Figures such as Van Til and Bahnsen have often appealed to the nature of logical laws to form a transcendental argument for the existence of God. But there are still critical questions about the nature of these laws that [...]

“Science is a particular way about knowing the world. In science, explanations are limited to those based on observations and experiments that can be substantiated by other scientists. Explanations that cannot be based on empirical evidence are not part of science.” – National Academy of Sciences The irony is that this means science cannot define [...]

“The ravages of alcoholism and drug abuse in our culture are too well known, and no symbol of sin’s bondage is more seductive or more oppressive than booze.” – John MacArthur on the “Young, Restless and Reformed” Though, I think one could easily say “no symbol of sin’s bondage is more seductive and oppressive than [...]

I have no idea how I missed reading this in years of study. But it’s a (very) good one: O wretched lot of man, when he hath lost that for which he was made! O hard and terrible fate! Alas, what has he lost, and what has he found? What has departed, and what remains? [...]

We’re on the final stretch of the review, and Craig’s (rather gross) view of salvation, grace, and God comes to the front… “Thus everything which happens comes to pass either by the will or by the permission of God. God wills every good thing directly, and his desire for us is that in whatever circumstances [...]

Introduction The “Transcendental Argument for God” (TAG) is typically understood as resting upon the “Impossibility of the Contrary.” We may be in a better position apologetically if we think about the Impossibility of the Contrary (IoC) in terms of three aspects of the IoC. These three aspects of the IoC are definition, dogma, and demonstration. [...]