Brett | August 26, 2010
I recently came across a top ten list from an atheist who has been very vocal against Christianity. I thought there may be some worth in giving a brief response to the supposed delusions that Christians have. I’ll include his text in full over the next few posts in this series. His points are short [...]
Brett | August 18, 2010
I am continuing my interaction with the July issue of The Watchtower magazine. In my last post I made the point that the name of God should be considered much more broadly. It is not limited to the vocalization of YHWH, rather when we speak of the name of God we mean the whole of [...]
Brett | August 12, 2010
The latest edition of the Watchtower addresses itself to the topic of the name Jehovah. They make some good points but I think there is a lot of misinformation in the article. There is some equivocation that occurs at several points. It is true that God gave to Moses his name as YHWH (in Hebrew). [...]
Brett | July 31, 2010
I have been doing a review of the Watchtower November 2009 magazine on Six Myths of Christianity. I have some new material on which I want to interact, so I’ll just finish this review in one long post.The most significant part of this for me is the first section which finishes up my treatment on [...]
Brett | July 26, 2010
This week I happened across an atheist forum where they happened to be discussing a video reenactment of “Letter from Hell.” The comments were conflicting. On one hand there were comments that indicated that it was a scary and horrible thing:
“This video “A Letter From Hell” is a truly frightening, scare-the-kids-into-believing ‘message’. [...]
Brett | June 29, 2010
There are two streams of attacks against Christianity that seem to be in conflict with one another. On the one hand we have the problem of pain. This has been described as the most difficult problem that Christianity faces. Example after example of horrendous evils are marshaled forth as evidence [...]
Brett | June 14, 2010
It will probably be November 2010 before I finish my review of the November 2009 issue of the Watchtower. This post is a continuation of my interaction on their treatment of the Trinity. The previous posts on the Trinity are here:
Introduction
Church Fathers On the Trinity
Misunderstanding the Trinity
Anti-Trinitarian Verses
Compare these Bible verses: Matthew 26:39; John [...]
Brett | June 7, 2010
Theodicy is a term that derives from two Greeks words “God” and “righteousness.” It is a discipline that seeks to provide an answer for the righteousness of God in light of all the evil in the world. David Hume framed perhaps the most famous formulation of the issue in his Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion:
“Is he [...]
Brett | May 27, 2010
Faith is one of those words that has become redefined in the lives of Christians. Without a daily reading of and thinking about scripture, these things become easily distorted. Consider these words from Kenneth Copeland:
God framed the worlds by faith. Everything God made, He made by faith. Everything He does, He does by faith.
For you [...]
Brett | May 17, 2010
Continuing my review of the November Watchtower article “Exposed: Six Myths About Christianity,” I’d like to remind my readers that the full text of the Watchtower article is in blue with my comments in black.
What does the Bible say? “Stephen, filled with the Holy [...]
O men of the world! what good can you desire which is not in Christ? The excellencies of earth are but His footstool; the excellencies of heaven are but His throne! How excellent, then, must He himself be! -James Meikle
My Name is Brett Scollard. I am husband to the most amazing woman in the world, father to 7 wonderful kids and pastor of Grace Community Church in McCook Nebraska. I am confessionally a Reformed Baptist. I run this blog as a means to sharpen and be sharpened so that we may all, "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
