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Category:
Religion
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 120
Copyright: 1995
Apologetics: Secular, Academic, Academia, Evidence, God, Bible, Christ, Christianity, Science, Arts, Cosmology, Empiricism, Evolution, Creationism, Philosophy, Logic, Absolutes, Supernatuural, Miracles, Religion, Religions, Secular Humanism, Intolerance, Theocracy, Chriatian Fanaticism, Racism, Trinity, Inerrancy, Dead Sea Scrolls, Messiah, Jesus Resurrection, Excusivity, Universalism, Sufferingg, Church, Leap of Faith.
"MISCONCEPTIONS CONCERNING GOD"
Table of Contents
Preconceptions
Science
Philosophy
Logic
Moral Absolutes
The Supernatural & Myth
Religions
Secular Humanism
Christian Intolerance
A Christian Theocracy?
Christian Fanaticism, Racism & Sexism
Christian Polytheism (the Trinity)
The Holy Bible
Yeshua Ha Mashiach & Prophecy
The Resurrection
Sacrificial Atonement
Salvation
A Sacrifice for Everyone?
The Church
After Thoughts
A Relationship with God
Forward
"Over the last generation, a myriad of 'Misconceptions Concerning God' have arisen from the American landscape. There are a number of reasons why this has occured. In 1962, God was officially removed from the American classroom (Engle v. Vital).1 Since then, regular church attendance has declined by more percentage points than at any other time in history.2 With only six-percent of the American population reading their Bibles more than twice monthlly,3 society, as of late, has constructeed a god (note the use of lower-case "g") built on innuendo rather than sound biblical principles. It is this new, secularly-diluted, non-biblical view of God that threatens us as a people and a nation--as crime statistics so succinctly demonstrate (from 1962). In short, we are nearing moral bankruptcy. And, as any historian knows, so too were Greece and Rome when immorality's sisters (anarchy and chaos) came to draw the final curtain. Can't happen here you say? What makes you think that our obectives are any different than were theirs?
Hence, it is the responsibility of every child of God to 'Always be prepared to give answer [defense] to everyone....' concerning the hope that is in us--Christ Jesus (1 Peter 3.15). This is what the author of 'Misconceptions' has attempted to do--for God and this nation. Enclosed herein are fifty popular delusions regarding religion with the author's biblical, historical, logical and practical response to each. We hope you enjoy the author's candid approach in attempting to address the moral dilemma before us."
An Example (Excerpt) from Within
Misconception: "God Cannot be Philosophically Discerned.'
An Abbreviated Excerpt
".... Anselm (ca. 1033-1109) describes God as 'That than which no greater can be thought.' 1 The author adds: that it is impossibble to perceive of God (or anything for that matter) unless He or that obect already exists--at least in part. If God exists in part, then God exists. The definition of God calls for this logical deducction--in that God is a single, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent immutable and eternal God that exists in whatever form He desires."
Excerpt
"Yes, it is possible, said Socrates. The resemblance between arguments and human beings lies not in what I said just now, but what I said before, that when one believes that an argument is true without reference to the art of logic, and then a little later decides rightly or wrongly that it is false, and the same thing happens again and again--you know how it is, especially with those who spend their time in arguing both sides--they end by beleving that they are wiser than anyone else, because they alone have discovered that there is nothing stable or dependable either in arguments, and that everything fluctuates just like the water in a tidal channel, and never stays at any point for any time.
That is perfectly true, I [Phaedo]said.
Well, then, Phaedo, he [Socrates] said, supposing that there is an argument which is true and valid and capable of being discovered, if anyone nevertheless, through his experience of these arguments which seem to the same people to be sometimes true and sometimes false, attached no responsibility to himself and his lack of tecchnical ability, but was finally content, in exasperation, to shift the blame from himself to the arguments, and spend the rest of his life loathing and decrying them, and so missed the chance of knowing the truth about reality--would it not be a deplorable thing?
It would indeed, I [Phaedo] said.
Very well, he [Socrates] said, that is the first thing we must guard against. We must not let it enter or minds that there may be no validity in argument. On the contrary we should recognize that we ourselves are still intellectual invalids, but we must brace ourselves and do our best to become healthy...."
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