Here We Go Again… In a time where information and disinformation can spread across the world in a half second, it is unfortunate that ambiguity seems to be a hallmark of the current papacy. Ambiguity has NO place in theology – especially moral theology, and it should not be defended (looking at you Barron….). However,…
At Jesus’ trial, Pilate asked, “What is truth” At another time, Jesus said he was the Truth (Jn. 14:6) and today Christianity claims to be true. But can we know truth? Don’t illusions and hallucinations prove we do not know reality? In this video, we’ll take a look at what the truth is and how…
In this article I wish to offer some clarification on different categories of arguments for the existence of God. I am not weighing in on the relative value any of them here. Rather, I am just pointing out some distinctions and categories that are often confused or missed at the popular level. Also, due to non-standard…
Her is a talk I did for a series on “The Way, the Truth, and the Life” on knowing Truth at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
Here is a talk I did for a series on “The Way, the Truth, and the Life” on introductory logic at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. The notes can be downloaded HERE.
When St. Thomas Aquinas wrote his great Summa Theologiae, he listed only two objections to the existence of God (the problem of evil and the apparent ability of science to explain everything), even though he tried to list at least three objections to each of his views. During my doctoral studies, however, I came across…
“I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed.” (2 Maccabees 7:28) Genesis Unbound In a fascinating modern book on the biblical creation story (Genesis Unbound), Evangelical Bible scholar John Sailhamer…
I did a major website overhaul some years ago to get rid of out of date or irrelevant content, but I continue to get requests for this article so I have chosen to repost it. Enjoy! Introduction Pastor Joe Schimmel is founder of Fight the Good Fight Ministries and pastor at Blessed Hope Chapel in…
The careful reader of sacred Scripture cannot help but notice some passages that seem to conflict with one another. One of these apparent conflicts can be found in comparing Genesis 1, in which everything that God creates is called “good,” with the prophet Isaiah’s claim on God’s behalf: “I form the light, and create darkness:…
The Problem of Evil is an ancient difficulty that arises from the question of how an all-powerful, all-good God could exist given the amount of evil in the world. While atheism has no good response to evil, and theism has some very good ones – Christianity alone can account for both evil and suffering in…
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