Christ, Truth, and Politics

Published in the Souvenir of Central India Theological Seminary of October 2005. Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? (John 18:38) It is interesting to note that the only instance where Christ ever met Pilate in recounted history was at His trial. The ensuing dialogue between both of them is intriguing. It heavily concentrates on the urgency of Truth in a world mismanaged by humans. The trial of Christ at Jerusalem reminds us of the trial...

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Cognitive Voluntarism of James F. Ross

Excerpted from Epistemics of Divine Reality (2009, 2011) In his paper Reason and Reliance: Adjusted Prospects for Natural Theology (1990),[1] James Ross defines ‘Cognitive Voluntarism’ as the view that ‘humans, for  the  most  part,  believe  not because they  are  compelled  by  the  evidence,  but  because  they  want  to  (sometimes  even   being  compelled by wants operating as “convictors”) because assenting appears to advance their ‘apprehended...

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Angels at Prayer - Some Witnesses

Incident 1: Place – Makhu, Punjab In 1994, Pastor Surinder of Makhu, a genuine man of God whose life and ministry I personally witnessed, told us an incident from his life. He had the practice of kneeling by a chair and praying every morning or during any part of the day when he got any free time. There were two chairs there besides a bed in that single room where he and his family lived. And, because they didn’t have any church building then, people...

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Toward the Tithe and Beyond | John Piper - Review

http://www.desiringgod.org/messages/toward-the-tithe-and-beyond John Piper presents 7 Biblical reasons for tithing in this article. Quite contrary to the teaching of John MacArthur that Christians don’t need to tithe since they pay taxes to the government, Piper sees tithing as vital to a Christian’s being part of the Kingdom work. Tithing is also an antidote against covetousness, he says. Piper’s 7 Reasons reminded me of David Jeremiah’s 7 Reasons for tithing. Clearly, again contrary to what MacArthur teaches, Jesus made...

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Some Self-Defeating Philosophical Positions

Scientism – The principle that only scientifically verifiable statements are true is itself not scientifically verifiable. Skepticism – The statement that truth cannot be known is itself a statement considered to be true, which by its own verdict cannot be known. Logical Positivism – The principle that only empirically verifiable statements can be true is itself not empirically verifiable. Kantian Phenomenalism – If causality is just an a priori mental category imposed on sense data, then the whole enterprise...

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