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Messianic prophecy, Jesus, and an inconvenient fact
Am I impressed that the Hebrew Bible (the “Old Testament”) has numerous chapters and passages that seem to foreshadow Jesus’s ministry and death? No. Why? Because their predictive value is vastly diminished by an inconvenient fact: THE WRITERS OF THE NEW … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, bible prophecy, God, gospels, Jesus, John Macarthur, messianic prophecies, prophecy, religion, skepticism, the Bible
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Promissory Atheism and Promissory Theism
I”ve been thinking about something that the late Nobel Prize winner, Sir John Eccles, said of strict materialism. He called it “promissory materialism”, and said of it: “I regard this theory as being without foundation. The more we discover scientifically about the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, End Times, Messiah, messianic prophecies, multiverse hypothesis, philosophy, religion, science, second coming
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