The Consequences of Ideas

As Christians we are not without answers to life's most fundamental questions. We have God's Word to supply those answers for us. But how have others...

Unaided by Scripture, the pre-Socractic philosophers embarked on a quest for ultimate reality. How did we get here? What is the source of all things?...

What are you and what are you becoming? Are you the same person you were ten years ago? If not, then who are you? How can we be the same but different...

What happened to virtue? What happened to truth? Is all hope lost in the realm of science, politics, and our court system? These are questions we ask...

All of us should know what a person is when we see one. But if you were asked to give a definition of a person that captured the essence of personhood...

What is the difference between opinion and knowledge? Everyone has an opinion about something. But what is that opinion based on? Perhaps we don't rea...

Why do acorns produce oak trees instead of something else? It may seem like a ridiculous question to our biblically informed ears, but the early philo...

What is the necessary instrument for knowledge? What instrument is employed to make sense of it all? How does knowledge enter the mind? How is it inte...

In Christian thought, we derive our being from the ultimate personal, rational, and volitional Being—God. But not everyone assumes that the God who ex...

Many times we realize when our senses fail us, but how many times have they failed us, and we didn't know it? How can we be sure we can trust our sens...

Is God the greatest conceivable being you can think of? Of course He is. But how do we prove the God of our thinking is actually a being in reality? E...

You can't read about human DNA in the Bible and you can't study God's plan of redemption under a microscope. Does that mean science and faith contradi...

When we think about the awesome nature of God, we may be tempted to say the words can't describe it. Is God so far above us that He transcends all hum...

It seems that in our day, people choose the authority of science and philosophy over theology. But this is not a new thing. The seeds were planted lon...

With all the opposing ideas in the world, how do you know which ones are right? How do know your thoughts are any closer to the truth than someone els...

Many times a day, we think about doing things without actually doing those things. Then we have thoughts that manifest themselves in action. The quest...

If God is perfect, how can His handiwork be so imperfect? How can a good God create a world with evil in it? These questions are not at all new in the...

Often we use our imagination as a means of temporary escape from the pressures of life. We dream of an ideal world in which we are free from pain, suf...

If you were to catalogue every piece of knowledge that is stored in your mind, you would realize that you know more than you know. But how did all tha...

How do you know what is real? If you are relying on your five senses to supply you with an answer, remember, there are many things in this world that...

What is the color of anything when the lights are out? As we try to understand the material world around us, how much can we rely on our senses? Quest...

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? You've probably heard that question before and you jus...

It has happened countless times in your life. You woke up and the grass was wet from the rain the night before, or so you thought. How do know the rai...

Philosopher David Hume has caused many to rethink the law of causality. In essence, he concluded that we cannot really know the true causes of the eff...

Kingdoms rise and fall. This fact of life has been proven again and again throughout world history. If we could only learn from history, perhaps we ca...

During the Enlightenment, many minds were at work to rid society of religion. One way was to disregard Scripture and use only what is observed in natu...

Where is the beginning of knowledge? What must be in order for knowledge to be? Most of us don't ponder questions like these, but philosophers like Im...

Do our speculations about God lead us into the realm of contradictions? Is it possible to rationally come to the conclusion that God exists from our f...

The traditional view of God is that He is a perfect being. In fact, one early church theologian described God as the most perfect being, for lack of a...

Are you a productive member of society? Are you getting a fair wage for your work? Sometimes it seems that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer...

During a moment of existential decision, have you ever passionately committed yourself to the Christ of Scripture? This is probably not a question you...

Where do you find your meaning? If you are a Christian, then you know it comes from God. Yet many people believe that meaning and purpose do not come...

What is it that truly makes you human? What is the greatest threat to your humanness? Anthropology, the study of man, is anything but a unified discip...

You don't need to be master logician to feel the weight of the question. If everything must have a cause, then what caused God, and what caused the ca...

Philosophies such as positivism, pragmatism, pluralism, and relativism have been let loose to roam the halls of our schools, workplaces, and, yes, eve...