Apologetics and Evidence

As I suggest (and arguably, Jesus suggests) in   Part One   of this series, demons are creatures of habit. A brief look at Matthew 12:43-45 reveals such:   When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first…   The reason for the return of the unclean spirit to the “house from which I came” is because even for a demon,  home is where the heart is . They are also “creatures of habit.” Pattern recognition is noteworthy, simply because information retrieved from memory is applied to a stimulus or the event of receiving new information. So, because we can recognize patterns between Islam and Mormonism, it seems th...

Travis Dickinson, Ph. D., is a professor of philosophy at Dallas Baptist University, and recently put a YouTube video out titled, “ Why the Christian/Muslim/same God question is a BAD Question .” In one theological sense, we Christians do not worship the same God, because of the difference between a unitarian view (Muslim) and a Trinitarian view (Christian). But in another sense, as far as philosophical reference is concerned, we are discussing the same necessary being to some degree. The idea is that the being we call “God” can be described in several different ways, and though some of those ways can be false, we are still philosophically pointing to the same “thing.”   Dickinson briefly mentions that sometimes Jews are included in the first part of his discussion, and I think this is actually a steelman argument for this first part, simply based on the fact that it is likely that more people will say that Jews and Christians worship the same God (see below for more), as opposed t...