Apologetics to the Glory of God

Choosing Hats

  • An Honest Letter to An Honest Unbeliever (Response to Jake)

    Please note that there is some adult content in the post below.

    I was Christian once. I was southern baptist. My father was a preacher. He attended Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in Pineville, KY and spent many of his years preaching at various Baptist churches throughout the area and in Ohio as well. I do not hate Christians. I do not hate them for their beliefs. Like all free human beings, they are granted the right to believe in anything they choose.

    Now that is out of the way. I do not rebuke Christianity for a lack of evidence

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  • Theology Still Matters

    Even in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy, such as the Aurora shootings (Alan’s comments about whether comments on it should still be going on aside), there are common themes in responses to tragedy, and what answers you have to give concerning it. As Dr. White is fond of saying – and I’m fond of repeating – theology matters, and your theology determines your apologetic. I had this story linked to me, earlier this evening. It sounds truly remarkable, and I appreciate that he related this story. What I didn’t appreciate, however, was the answer he had to give …

  • Christian Books on Homosexuality

    A few people asked me about books on homosexuality. Here are three that I recommend:

    The classic work on this topic is The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics by Robert A.J. Gagnon.

    James R. White & Jeffrey D. Niell wrote what is probably my favorite treatment of it, The Same Sex Controversy.

    Finally, Homosexuality: A Biblical View by Greg L. Bahnsen is available online for free.…

  • “Funeral for atheism”

    http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/funeral-for-atheism.html…

  • Trueman on Papal Authority

    [T]he rise, consolidation and definition of papal power is an historically very complex issue; and, indeed, as scholarship advances, the story becomes more, not less, convoluted and subversive of papal claims. For some converts to Roman Catholicism, papal authority is somehow seen as an obvious riposte to problems with the perspicuity of scripture. In other words, it is the answer to an epistemological/authority problem. For those of us who have spent the best part of our lives reading late medieval and early modern history, however, papal authority is not an epistemological solution to much of anything at all; rather, it

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  • Funny Searches

    Apparently one can see which search terms were used to bring people to this site. I do not really know how to see them. I am not a nerd. But I know a few. Anyway, some of the searches that resulted in bringing people to the site yesterday made me chuckle.

    “rosa rubicondior”

    “theists are idiots”

    “Christians are stupid”

    “are christians stupid?”

    I can’t help but smile at the possibility that unbelievers ran these searches in hopes of finding something very different from Choosing Hats. Providential!…

  • “Monkey See, Monkey Do”

    http://hipandthigh.blogspot.com/2012/07/monkey-see-monkey-do.html…

  • The Recent Rise of Covenantal Apologetics (3 of 10)

    Covenantal apologetics have virtually no place in the academy.

    It’s not that they shouldn’t have a place in the academy. It’s just that they don’t.

    But why would we expect anything different? Covenantal apologetics are firmly grounded in the Christian worldview and are used to cast down every thought exemplifying its antithesis. It is not merely that non-Christians will misunderstand or reject covenantal apologetics in an intellectual sense, but rather that they will not even like them. So we should not expect to see covenantal apologetics pulling up a chair next to Naturalistic Atheism or Thomistic Christianity in the …

  • Steve Hays Responds: Wintery Knight On Van Til

    http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/wintery-knight-on-van-til.html…

  • On an Apologetic for Doubt

    C. Michael Patton is hardly my favorite blogger, as you might have guessed by now. The reason I have him in my RSS feed is because the sorts of things he typically says are symptomatic of what is wrong with most of non-confessional “Calvinism.” What I’ve dealt with most from him, of course, is the subject of “doubt”. The subject of doubt, for some reason, seems to be a fascination with Mr. Patton. As one who is focused on the apologetic implications of theological stances, his “advice” on this subject often horrifies me. Case in point: “On Talking to …