Posts by Truth and Life

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1 The lines are clearly drawn between those who believe Genesis 1 is true and those who don’t.  But the science which tries to prove Genesis 1 to be false has failed to discover a law that allows something to come from nothing. There is…

There are books that we read and then set aside; others serve as reliable resources we often return to.  Total Truth, by Nancy Pearcey is one of those sources for me. The world gets Christianity wrong when it regards it as just a set of individual beliefs, that Christ is both God and Man, that…

Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, art, and education? This is the question Nancy Pearcey asks. It is one an apologist would ask. Apologist comes from the Greek word ἀπολογία. It is a branch of Christian thinking that does not defend Christianity against the world but brings the truth of Christianity to…

In The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov exclaims that if God does not exist, then everything is permitted. I am grateful to David Berlinski for writing The Devil’s Delusion.  He writes that when the religious conviction seeped out of the institutions of Western culture, it was the poets and philosophers who had the uneasy feeling that…

The psalmist says we have been wonderfully made by God. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,Psalm 139:14. In the many years I practiced as a psychotherapist, I grew to realize that no matter who we are, we are bound to do the bidding of the ruler of…

We’re highly emotional creatures. And one of the challenges we face as Christians is living a superficial Christian life based on what we feel. The Bible does tell us that Jesus had feelings; he wept and got angry. Even social psychology would probably support the fact that being emotionally in touch is good.  For it…

David Berlinski in his book, Human Nature, writes that what the academic and professional life says is irresistible, but it brings with it a dark shadow. Regardless of how brilliant and godlike the human being has become in understanding his own biology, he deliberately will not allow a “divine” root to enter into the door…