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Convince Me There’s A God – Causality
I’ve been asked so many times how an atheist could possibly become a theist. Atheists cannot believe one of their own would change his or her mind and Christians have a hard time believing an atheist...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Morality
As an atheist I cared little for “morality.” In fact, how others saw morality was often something I had to overcome to get what I wanted in life. So, when Christians who talked with me about the...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology
Journalists deal in facts – lots of them. We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We snack on them at midnight. Facts, facts, and more facts! So, what can possibly convince an atheist journalist...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 2
Solid evidence. Something an investigative journalist can sink his teeth into. That’s what I needed to see in 1971. Christians I had invited on my radio talk show to intimidate and make fun of were...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 4
As any good atheist would have done more than 40 years ago, I ridiculed the history of Israel as recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible. How could anyone believe what the Jews wrote about their...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 5
As an atheist I believed in what I could see, not in what I could not see. The “natural” was something I could see – the “supernatural” was not. So, the archaeological finds that supported various...
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Is “Faith” Worth Believing?
Atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian believes that faith is pretending to know things you don’t know (May 6, 2012 public lecture – richarddawkins.net/). As a former atheist, I find that statement both...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 6
Many atheists have asked me why I converted from strong atheism to Christianity rather than to some other belief system. The simple answer is that Christians had the answers to my questions. I had...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 7
The Hebrew Bible records the history of the world in some detail, but the history of Israel in great detail. Rather than a book of myth and legend, the Hebrew Bible was written as an historical...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 8
As I investigated the claims of the Bible concerning Abram leaving Ur of the Chaldees, traveling to ancient Haran, then on to Canaan, I came across many archaeological discoveries that supported the...
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Evangelistic Apologetics – The Church Under Attack (Part 6)
It’s important to our understanding of why the Church is under attack to understand the “tension” between God and Satan. We saw it first in the Garden of Eden when God said this to the Satan-possessed...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 9
As I mentioned in the last post, the Bible story about Abraham became a “possibility” for me as an atheist based on the archaeological evidence available during my 1971 investigation into theism and...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 10
I used to think that Christians were ignorant to believe the “stories” in the Bible. I was taught those stories as a child, but I grew up to “know” they weren’t true. Or did I? My investigation into...
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Evangelistic Apologetics – The Church Under Attack (Part 15)
Question: In the Garden of Eden, was God truthful with Adam? “… but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis...
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Evangelistic Apologetics – The Church Under Attack (Part 16)
Atheists don’t believe God exists. However, they do think the non-existent God is a bully. In “The God Delusion,” Richard Dawkins wrote this about God – “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 12
Did pharaoh’s daughter find baby Moses in an ark of bulrushes in the reeds by the bank of the river and raise him as her son? Did Moses become the leader of the slave nation of Israel? Did Moses lead...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 13
Moses never existed … or if he did, he was only a minor historical character and most of his life was expanded by legend. When I was an atheist I believed Moses never existed. The Jews made him up to...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 14
“Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up...
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Evangelistic Apologetics – The Church Under Attack (Part 21)
“The only worldview that is true is God’s view of the world.” In the last part of our study we saw that the undeniable end of Satan’s worldview (“you will be like God, knowing good and evil”) was great...
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Convince Me There’s A God – Archaeology 15
“Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, ‘Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.’ Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land...
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