tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43422868506488026182024-02-20T05:03:16.144-05:00The Apologetics and Theological Commentary of Dallas CarterDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-32390350720944385732019-04-13T18:07:00.000-04:002020-01-18T07:58:27.037-05:00The Personal and Transcendent ground of true moralityThis was a response I made in a conversation on social media to a person who disclosed that she did not believe in any god but protested that she was a good person.
This seemed to me to be a good time to show why this is incoherent and why God is a necessary condition for the existence of morality.
I am curious about how you define good and evil given your atheistic DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-49263492022389274572018-05-01T20:49:00.001-04:002018-05-01T20:49:07.325-04:00Revelation as a Template for the Final Great Awakening | IntroThe book of Revelation was given as a template on how to prepare for the Final Great Awakening. As we Praise God, Pray to Him, and Proclaim His Word, Great Judgments fall. This video is an introduction to this series.
DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-5235480903575070372018-03-20T17:50:00.004-04:002018-03-20T17:50:44.532-04:00Gary Habermas argues for Jesus' resurrection using minimal facts at Southern Evangelical Seminary's annual National Conference on Christian Apologetics"Speaking at the Southern Evangelical Seminary's annual National
Conference on Christian Apologetics, Christian philosopher and historian
Gary Habermas shared historical facts that a vast majority of scholars,
including even skeptics, do not dispute — facts that are the basis for
proving Jesus' boldly resurrection.
" 'Of what did earliest
preaching consist before there was a single New DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-63249707131111607282018-03-04T20:19:00.004-05:002018-03-05T21:42:40.441-05:00Oprah Winfrey and the rise of the queen of Mystery Babylon
In my book Mystery Babylon Rising, I document the historic roots behind the 5000 year history of the New World Order. This conspiracy culminates in a loosely coagulated network of elites that rule the earth in the season just before the return of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. At the heart of this conspiracy is a spiritual conspiracy against God. Satan seeks to use a global religion toDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-17846357761186814382017-07-04T20:29:00.001-04:002017-07-05T18:34:28.926-04:00The Foundation of Liberty(This was originally published on July 4, 2006 on a previous website)
What is the foundation of our liberties?
Where do our rights come from? There are only two classes of answers. One is that rights evolved from nature through various social and political evolution. Put it another way: Do rights come from God or from society or the state?
There are several problems with basing DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-36209029322963434592017-07-03T19:51:00.001-04:002017-07-03T19:51:37.970-04:00
Book review for The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
The Benedict Option was written to present to the reader a new paradigm for the Church concerning how to relate to the culture. It is a paradigm, that while new to most Christians, is in fact a very old paradigm. It was the paradigm Benedict helped create to help those Christians who witnessed the destruction of the collapse of the Western DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-63666982079038848642017-04-27T12:31:00.000-04:002018-03-16T23:02:39.707-04:00Book Review for CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with TEENS by TOM GILSON
I found CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with TEENS by TOM GILSON incredibly readable and concise, yet informative primer on how to discuss homosexuality. This book, while informed by top notch scholarship, is easily accessible to a lay audience. This book was written primarily as a discussion guide for parents to DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-61344547703531084162017-02-25T21:05:00.000-05:002017-02-25T21:17:51.101-05:00Revival in the age of Trump
This is the final post in my series on the spiritual powers that accompany the rise of Trump: part 1, part 2, part 3.
There has been much ado in certain Evangelical circles that Trump is a Cyrus-type. There were numerous articles that promoted Trump not merely as God pick for the Presidency but also as an anointed spiritual leader1. I have responded here on why Trump is not Cyrus.DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-37683162177443035262017-02-09T09:54:00.000-05:002018-10-01T22:49:58.292-04:00
The Truth of the Conceptual God
For over two thousand years, philosophers have been debating what is called the problem of universals. to understand this problem We must consider how we classify commonalities. When we speak of apples or oranges, we intuitively think that apples have a commonality among them. Each apple is a particular object, but there seems to be common properties that apply DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-10059868579182023052016-12-12T21:31:00.001-05:002017-02-25T21:20:31.149-05:00Spiritual powers that underlie the rise of Trump -part 3: evidence of the influence of the demonic spirits of chaos
In the first installment in this series, I laid out the background in spiritual warfare and in the second showed the pattern through which the demon of chaos has operated through Hitler. In this installment I will show evidence that this demon is at work. Keep in mind that full proof of this requires spiritual discernment into the nature of spiritual warfare. No article can produce conclusive DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-39263305613178955202016-11-23T17:47:00.001-05:002016-12-15T21:47:17.284-05:00Spiritual powers that underlie the rise of Trump -part 2: the template of the demonic prince of chaos
Continued from part 1
A demonic prince of chaos has manifested himself on the world stage at least give times in history. This manifestation would leave a specific global pattern. This demonic spirit would herald the rise of a nation that would reek havoc on other nations during the reign of a single governmental administration. After the reign of this single leader would end, the nation would DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-8512819019460331942016-11-20T12:23:00.001-05:002016-12-01T21:06:18.470-05:00The spiritual powers that underlie the rise of Trump - part 1:some background information
There is much more to this world than what physically meets the eye. As humans we tend to look only at the natural, observable. Ephesian 6:10-18, however, instructs us that we war not against flesh but against powers and principalities of spiritual power.
Daniel received a particularly distressing dream during the reign of Cyrus of Persia. He was literally sick over the dream, and he sought DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-9314372763831907152016-11-13T19:16:00.003-05:002016-11-13T19:16:56.294-05:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising 12 | Jewish Apostasy and the Fall of Judaism
The seeds of Jewish apostasy were sewn during their captivity. When Cyrus the Great gave the decree for Jews to return to the Promised Land, many chose to stay behind. They were comfortable in the Pagan culture and were much more secular in perspective than the ones who returned. We see in Esther a portrayal of the very beginnings of apostasy. The diaspora Jews, when they were in mortal danger, DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-32249702389257870322016-09-29T18:05:00.000-04:002016-09-29T18:05:41.398-04:00Does God call Women to Preach
Are women called to preach? What does the Bible say? In this installment I will comment on the passages that are often used to argue against women preaching. We must rightly divide the Word of Truth rather than read the culture or subculture into the text. The entire case against the ordination of women is based on an interpretation of these two passages. The first passage is 1 Timothy 2:DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-35720107495388503542016-08-24T00:00:00.000-04:002016-08-24T00:00:25.686-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 10 | True Prophets vs the Profitable Prophets - Part 2
In the last chapter, I showed the colossal failure of the monarchy. The monarchy corrupted the people, the priests, and the prophets. The end result was the people of God were deported from the Promised Land. In this chapter, I will show the work that God did in the midst of this failure to both preserve them and prepare them for the coming of the Messiah, Christ Jesus.
God acts according to DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-80413402140091139302016-08-21T20:21:00.000-04:002016-08-21T20:21:12.633-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 9 | True Prophets vs the Profitable Prophets- Part 1
The advent of kings in Israel proved to be a colossal failure in terms of faithfulness to the Covenant. While there were a few righteous monarchs, most were corrupt. The people reached unprecedented levels of corruption, becoming more corrupted than the nations God had previously evicted from the Promised Land.
There were five paths that this corruption took: The monarchy corrupted the DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-38477023795995037542016-08-21T14:00:00.001-04:002016-08-21T14:00:37.806-04:00Gender politics and social contructivism at the OlympicsSouth African Caster Semenya won the women’s 800 meter final, bringing once again to the fore front the controversy over gender identity politics.
Semenya’s win is not without controversy as last summer, the Court of
Arbitration for Sport suspended the "female hyperandrogenism" policy,
which was adopted in 2011 by the International Association of Athletics
Federations (track and DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-48736828520377440692016-08-21T12:37:00.000-04:002016-08-21T12:43:37.342-04:00Patterns for the church among the nations - The law as schoolmaster
Many Christians today make the mistake that, since we are no longer bound by the covenantal construct of the Mosaic Covenant, that the Old Testament is no longer of value to the New Testament Church. Nothing can be further from the truth. In several places in the New Testament we are instructed that the Old Testament contains patterns that have fulfillment in the New Testament. It is through DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-12970961610429576682016-08-19T19:10:00.001-04:002018-03-20T17:35:55.884-04:00Donald Trump and the reign of Cyrus.
There are many sophistries about the World Wide Web offering justifications of an unjustifiable candidate for President of the United States. In Evangelical circles there is a particular temptation to paint dubious Biblical analogies to prop up support for him.
One popular analogy is to liken him to Cyrus king of Persia. Cyrus was prophesied about 400 years before his reign in Isaiah DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-74345533106218870052016-07-05T16:59:00.000-04:002016-07-05T16:59:34.351-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 8 | The Covenant of David – God’s vision of the body politic
Israel’s first king, Saul, fell short of pleasing God. With the exception of the affair with the witch of Endor, Saul avoided engaging in idolatry (1 Sam 28:4-25).
Saul made two major mistakes as king. The result of these mistakes was that he was rejected from being king. These mistakes revealed that Saul was extremely self-willed. He wanted to do God’s will on his own terms, and it didn’t workDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-71466381541347261272016-07-03T19:32:00.001-04:002016-07-03T19:32:08.436-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 7 - From Chaos to Corruption to Chains in the Promised Land
The Law of Moses provided a much needed legal structure for the people of God. It had one major weakness: no adequate mechanism to internalize the law in the hearts of the people. The result of this was that the people periodically forgot the hard lessons the Israelites learned under Moses. Those who saw what the Lord did for Israel remembered the hard lesson. Israel was faithful during the DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-47086968701184803962016-04-03T23:14:00.001-04:002016-04-03T23:14:30.428-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 6 - The Purpose of the Mosaic Covenant
The children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were lacking in any formal governmental structure prior to Moses. While they had the heritage and promises of Abraham that they would be a nation, they lacked the necessary structure to possess and maintain sovereignty over the land they were promised. God sent moses to provide this for His people. The Mosaic Covenant provides for a number of things DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-88839291115175328442016-04-02T20:03:00.000-04:002016-04-02T20:03:09.156-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 5- Into the Promised Land
Exodus 1 takes up the narrative of the descendants of Jacob (Israel) in Egypt. We quickly discover two things about these “Israelites.” They prosper and multiply heavily while in Egypt. Because of this prosperity, the Egyptian Pharaoh becomes jealous and fearful of them. As a result, they are forced into slavery.
“Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-82185174545170849682016-04-01T13:17:00.000-04:002016-04-01T13:17:03.821-04:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 4 - Into famine and bondage.
Abraham’s obedience to God was not perfect. His son, Isaac, also fell short. They both had faith which was anointed by the Holy Spirit, but they did not have access to all of the components of God’s program. For example, they did not have the blessing of the Holy Spirit taking up permanent residence as believers in Christ do today. Neither did they have the scope of revelation that we do today. DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4342286850648802618.post-28898273204374237872016-02-26T23:23:00.001-05:002016-02-26T23:26:09.067-05:00Mystery Jerusalem Rising Ch 3 - Abraham - the Pre-Gospel preachedWhile God communicated with people on an individual basis since Adam, it is with Abraham that the history begins in earnest. When God called Abraham, he called him not only as an individual but as the father of the people of God. Consider the call of Abraham:“Get out of your country,From your family And from your father’s house,To a land that I will show you.I will make you a great nation;I will DChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15750270725999200912noreply@blogger.com0