Evan Minton

The prodigal son represents all of us. We go off to live our lives the way that our sinful hearts desire, but when we __ome to our senses_ by the illuminating work of God__ Holy Spirit, we can return to God. God and his __ervants_ (i.e. the angels) will rejoice when you repent. He__ happy to wrap His arms around you! He is overjoyed! He rejoices, and the angels rejoice with Him!

Christians do not believe that there is one God and three Gods. Nor do we believe that God is one person and three persons. That would clearly be contradictory and therefore logically impossible. Rather, the doctrine of the Trinity is that there is one God who eternally exists as three distinct persons. We believe that The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are each individual persons in their own right, but they all share the same divine essence. Saying that "God is one being who consists of three persons" is no more contradictory than saying that "There's one triangle that consists of three corners

If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about it.

While God desires salvation for everyone, God owes salvation to no one.

God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human flesh and be tortured on a cross in order to absorb the penalty for sin on our behalf. God wants no one to perish but for all people to come to repentance, and He grieves when people don__.

When I look at the night sky, I'm overwhelmed by the enormity of the universe. But this doesn't make me question my significance in God's eyes, no. Instead, it makes me drop to my knees in awe of God. If God created all of this, how powerful must He be to be able to manage and sustain all of it? God has to have enormous power to manage the entire cosmos. How mighty must He be to hold this massive universe in the palm of His hand?

The Kalam Cosmological Argument, The Fine-Tuning Argument, and The Local Fine-Tuning Argument all do an end-run around the issue of special creation verses evolution. These evidences establish the existence of a Creator of the universe. Thanks to The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the two Fine-Tuning Arguments, the atheist__ goose is cooked before we even get to the issue of the origin of life much less the adequacy of random mutations and natural selection to produce new species of animals! .... I can give the atheist evolution for free. He still has to deal with all of the arguments in this book.

You see, faith means the same thing as the word __rust_, or as I often like to say; __aith is when someone is holding you over a ledge and you know in your heart that not only will they not let you fall, they__l pull you up to safety_. You know that the person holding onto you exists. You have very powerful evidence that that person exists, but you still have faith in them. This is the real definition of the word __aith_.

Not everyone rejects Christianity solely on the basis of intellectual doubts. Some people reject it simply because they don__ want it to be true, so they purposefully talk themselves out of believing it.

I don__ feel that my faith is threatened by evolution at all. If I were convinced of Darwinian evolution some day, I would just become a Theistic Evolutionist like the guys at BioLogos.

Losing an unsaved loved one is hell, but that doesn__ mean that you need to go there yourself by turning away from God. Don__ make the same mistake he or she did.

The significance of establishing those two facts (1) that Jesus claimed to be God and (2) that He rose from the dead is this; if Jesus said that he was God but he wasn__, then he was either a lying heretic or else he was crazy. If that were the case, there__ no way God The Father would resurrect Jesus from the dead knowing that doing so would vindicate his blasphemous claims and lead many people astray. God would never raise a heretic and a blasphemer, but if God did raise Jesus from the dead, then God implicitly put his stamp of approval on everything Jesus said and did. If Jesus rose from the dead, then that means God The Father agreed with Jesus_ claims for which his enemies killed him as a blasphemer. If God The Father raised Jesus from the dead then that means He agrees with Jesus_ claims to be divine. If that__ the case, then whatever Jesus teaches carries a lot of weight.

God cannot be indicted with injustice because someone rejected a gift they weren't entitled to in the first place.