Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Featured Resource: The Case for Life by Scott Klusendorf

Scott Klusendorf, author of the book The Case for Life, has put together an outstanding website that offers various tools to equip Christians to make a case for the unborn.

Klusenforf offers various articles of excellent quality that successfully build a case for the unborn.  They are as follows:

Only One Issue

Scientific Case

Philosophical Case

Visual Evidence

Human Value

After Abortion

Pro-Choice Mistakes

Q & A

Links

If you are interested in becoming a case maker for the helpless among us, check out The Case for Life website and the Life Training Institute.

You can also checkout a review of Scott Klusendorf's book here.

Finally, you can listen to an interview with Klusendorf here.  Transcript is here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Monday, January 28, 2013

Video: God and Arguments from Morality by Chad A. Gross



This video features a talk I recently gave at my home church Faith Christian Fellowship entitled "God and Arguments from Morality."  In the talk, I present a version of the Moral Argument for God's existence, explain why relativism doesn't work and address some common confusions people have when discussing a universal Moral Law.

Here is a brief outline of the talk:
  • Two Types of Relativism
  • What Makes a Good Argument?
  • The Moral Argument
    • Every law has a law giver.
    • There is a Moral Law
    • Therefore, there is a Moral Law Giver
  • Confusions
    • "Cultures have different values so how can moral values be universal?"
    • "Difficult problems in morality prove that there is no universal Moral Law."
    • "Some values conflict."
    • "Morality is relative to time and culture."
  • How Does the Moral Argument Directly Relate to the Gospel?
Apologetics315 has the audio here.

Enjoy!

Also, if you are interested in having me come speak at your church, please contact me at truthbombapologetics@gmail.com

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Article: Seven Things You Can't Do As A Moral Relativist by Greg Koukl

In this featured article, Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason unpacks 7 things a moral relativist cannot do.  They are:

Rule #1- Relatives can't accuse others of wrong doing.

Rule #2- Relativists can't complain about the problem of evil.

Rule #3- Relativists can't place blame or accept praise.

Rule #4- Relativists can't claim that anything is unfair or unjust.

Rule #5- Relativists can't improve their morality.

Rule #6- Relativists can't hold meaningful moral discussions.

Rule #7- Relativists can't promote the obligation of tolerance.

You can check out the article here.

Can you think of anything else a relativist can't do?  Share it in the comments!

I also highly recommend the book Koukl co-authored with philosopher Francis Beckwith that deals with relativism entitled Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad

HT: Apologetics315

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Video: Intolerance with Greg Koukl

What do you say when someone accuses you of being intolerant?


For more from the One Minute Apologist, see here.

For more from Greg Koukl, see here.

Courage and Godspeed,
Chad