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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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Connecting the dots between unbelief and abortion

Posted by Anthony on March 17, 2009

A recent entry on my discussion forum illustrates with crystal clarity the arguments I confronted in my book We Chose Life: Why You Should Too. If you happen to get a hold of my book and you’re wondering if there are real people who hold those views, that example will do.

That’s not what I want to talk about. The ‘person’ in question (I use the term ‘person’ here loosely, as definitions can change over time ) is an atheist and secular humanist. His position on abortion follows naturally from his atheism. I’m not saying it follows logically, as in my book an atheist who subscribes unconditionally to Darwinism would recognize that abortion flies in the face of most evolutionary principles. After all, if our biological purpose is essentially to reproduce, hundreds of millions of humans thwarting that purpose by the droves would seem to be quite contrary to our evolved nature. So, not logically, but naturally.

Why naturally? Because if you take God out of the equation and you believe that morality is an evolving thing as well and that there isn’t any objective right and wrong, it follows logically that Man himself, and each individual man and woman, becomes the sole arbiter of what is right and wrong and the sole arbiter of how one defines ‘person.’ On these terms, an atheist can believe whatever he wants about anything he wants. In short, the atheist acknowledges a final regress: himself.

It is no surprise that the majority of pro-lifers are religious people and that the majority of pro-choice ‘persons’ are not. This list of every country and its percentage of pregnancies terminated in legal abortion reveals some pretty straight forward trends. Is it a surprise to anyone that the former bastion of institutionalized atheism, Russia, aborts more than 50% of its children while the thoroughly Roman Catholic Panama comes in at .02% ? Read the rest of the entry… »

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Should Churches Adopt a No Child Left Behind Approach?

Posted by Anthony on March 16, 2009

The statistics have been coming in fast and furious that Christianity is in rapid decline in America. Barna continues to warn us. Another recent report indicates that Christianity has dropped off 10% in 15 years. Two years ago I made the controversial claim that the Church was creating atheists. I am not so sure this is controversial anymore.

Obviously, the Church is still making an awful lot of Christians. This can lead leaders and thinkers in the church to conclude that the problem is that Americans are just reacting the way the Bible said people would react to the Gospel. I don’t think this is accurate. We aren’t talking about the reaction of a hostile tribe in South America that doesn’t know better. We are talking about a growing population of people that began Christian but then fell away. In other words, we had 5 to 18 years with these folks and we still lost them.

The level of Biblical illiteracy, even among Christians, is high. I could give anecdotal report after report from my own ministry… 13 year olds that don’t know how many disciples Jesus had… unawareness that Jesus was a Jew… belief that one must do good works to be saved… this list can go on and on. I am not by any means the only person to encounter this trend.

On the assumption that the reader agrees this is a problem, the question is what to do about it. Read the rest of the entry… »