Apologetics

Evaluating the Apostasy. Part 1.

Posted on 18 April, 202327 April, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 8 minutes God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

“How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

Bad Apologetics. Part 2.

Posted on 30 March, 202310 April, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 10 minutes The intention of this article, is to assess how that, the perspectives through which Scripture itself (the source of Christian information and Christian revelation) is read, determines one’s scriptural interpretation, hence consequently, one’s theology and apologetic.

Biblical Anthropology. Part 4.

Posted on 6 February, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 12 minutes The insights of 20th Century biology, specifically those that describe humans as just, cumbersome containers for swarming gene replicators and vehicles for meme replicators, is an anthropological definition that is inadequate.

Bad Apologetics. Part 1.

Posted on 4 December, 202210 April, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 11 minutes A vague general theism is an incoherent position to defend because there’s a quantum leap of several orders of magnitude, from theism to Christian theism. Having a coherent message contained in the law and the prophets, allows the very basis of understanding why the cross and Resurrection can bring about Redemption to be understood in, what God prefigured in the law and in the giving of these prophecies.

“Lies and Deceit” Part 1

Posted on 23 October, 202226 December, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 13 minutes In a weaponized information environment, the public sphere is purposefully saturated with false information by malevolent actors who are deliberately trying to create the conditions where the truth cannot be discerned. What the Christian needs to know.

Biblical Anthropology. Part 3.

Posted on 27 August, 20221 May, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 10 minutes Part 3. Transhumanism. A Theory of “Technosalvation”. Opinion Piece: The Counsel of the Ungodly. In the twenty-first century, the third big project of humankind will be to acquire for us divinepowers of creation and destruction, and upgrade Homo Sapiens to Homo deus … We want theability to re-engineer our bodies Continue Reading

Biblical Anthropology. Part 2.

Posted on 23 July, 202229 January, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 7 minutes The Early Church understood, the person as the resultant of body and soul, as an integral unit and not of that of two entities. In other terms, a human being is seen as one entity, composed of two distinct irreducible constituents where immortality of the soul was an alien concept to most

Biblical Anthropology. Part 1

Posted on 4 July, 202229 January, 2023 by Donut

Reading Time: 9 minutes Humans have an inescapable problem of understanding what defines them, because the nature of the definition is both paradoxical and complicated.

Communication Theory and the Ancient World. Part 1.

Posted on 8 May, 202226 December, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 5 minutes The word “rhetoric” (ῥητορική), is a victim of “Semantic Drift” that has seen its classical meaning changed from its original Greek meaning: skill in speaking articulated as the art of persuasion, into propaganda or empty talk.

“wokeness” Part 3: – Politically Correct Policing.

Posted on 16 March, 202226 December, 2022 by Donut

Reading Time: 6 minutes All “Western” institutions of higher education have adopted and embraced some form of equality policy into the regulations they adhere to for self governance. However, questions concerning the negative effects of their implementation have arisen, regarding whether academic freedom, professorial prerogatives and the ability of faculty to teach and conduct research without risk of sanctions by official interference, or to professional disadvantage, are sustained by the members of its community.