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Hi all your, neighbourhood friendly atheist here. On his excellent YouTube channel Capturing Christianity (apologetics and Christian philosophy Chanel), Cameron hosted a discussion about the fine tuning argument. As the argument was being laid out the notion was advanced that the presence of...

Pardon the click bait title, I couldn't figure out how to summarize my question effectively. We read in the Bible that while God finds divorce sinful, he allows it because of the hardness of human hearts. My question for apologists is, why is this proof of concept applied to questions like...

Hi all, Friendly atheist question. If you are a believer who finds the notion of the cumulative case for the truth claims of your religion compelling, how do you avoid falling prey to the conjunction fallacy? This link is a short read (5 minutes or so) that describes the fallacy and gives a...

Hey all, A friendly atheist here with a quick question. I was thinking today about prophecy and I seem to recall believing (may years ago now) that in order to be a true prophet of God, it had to be the case that every prophecy made, would come to pass. Is that what you believe? If that...

CMV: The Bible is a collection of ancient human writings that give insight into the time and culture they were written about politics, finances, social norms, religion etc. It has been uniquely preserved, transmitted, studied, attacked and revered but is, for all that, simply an exceptional...

I've been reading up a bit on this approach to apologetics and have to say as an atheist, it seems like the method is fairly problematic. That said, I am no expert. If there is a presupositional apologist on this form that would like to walk through the approach with me as a back and forth...

Hi again, Recently I started a thread about a comment made by a friend who has gotten into presup apologetics. It generated some interesting discussion but I feel like it unfairly hung an unsophisticated view on the presups in these forms. I am quite interested in the presup apologetics...

So I ran into this in a conversation earlier today. My conversation partner was a presupositional apologist and was arguing that because I have to rely on potentially flawed senses and cognition, that I can't claim to know the things I think I know. While i think i can tell a reasonable story...

Hey all and sundry, In a conversation last week we were discussing the problem of suffering and one of the lines of defense that was explored was this notion of skeptical theism. That because we don't have the knowledge of God, we should be wary of attempting to assert what his motive may have...

Hi all, Your friendly local atheist back with another question. So chatting after hockey about life's big questions one of the guys said thst he was a Christian and when I asked what convinces him that Christianity is true his first thought was all the fulfilled prophecy. When I asked him for...

Hi Christians, It's your friendly neighbourhood atheist again. Awhile ago I posted a thread about Matthew 5 and how Jesus seemed to be commanding that we should all be following the OT laws. Not as a salvific imperative but rather simply out of obedience to His command. I got some great...

Disclaimer: agnostic atheist interested in your perspective more that an argument. So I was having lunchbwoth a pastor friend of mine and he brought along a youth leader (teenager) fromnhis church who was doing a job shadow. We were talking about Christianity as we usually do and I brought...

Hey all, I am an agnostic atheist, naturalist, humanist etc. In my worldview I am not sure what to make of free will and will be happy to admit this. That said today I am asking about the account and justification of free will on Christian theism. In conversation with an apologist buddy...

Hey C.F. crew. I am a former believer, now an atheist. In trying to find a reason to believe I often have conversations with mature and intelligent believers. Recently, in one such conversation, a believer expressed the notion that it is always a sin to lie. He began his defense of this in 10...

Hey all (AV the copyright cheque for the title is in the mail...) In a recent conversation with a church leader he expressed the idea that as an atheist I simply can't understand scripture as accurately as he does. He pointed out that Jesus taught in parables explicitly to preclude...

Hey it's the atheist again asking a question that came up in my bible study group this week (yes it is a Christian bible study group). We were talking about how to harmonize Paul and Jesus and we got to talking about obeying the ot law. Our group was split with some saying that Jesus...

Hi all, Deadworm threw down the gauntlet suggesting that I make an earnest effort to re-aquire my belief in God. I'm not sure what he has planned but I would very much like to be convinced so I will put myself in his hands for the journey. I am not sure to what extent this will be an...

Note: I am re-posting this discussion after the former was closed. I have been informed that I did not transgress the rules so I am hoping this one will be allowed to continue. The following is the OP from that first thread. Hi all, I am an atheist, married to a wonderful Christian woman. In...

Hi all, I am an atheist, married to a wonderful Christian woman. In hopes of coming to belive what she believes I have started attending a bible study group with some cool guys from our church. One question that keeps coming up in our discussions is this notion of the indwelling of the spirit...

Fair warning I am an atheist...but hopefully that won't come in to play in this discussion. I have a Christian friend who is married to a Christian husband. Recently the husband has taken on a very very fundamental approach to the bible. There have been a host of issues stemming from this but...