Critique of Divine Discourse by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Critical Analysis Wolterstorff opens his book with a reflection on Augustine’s encounter with God in the garden. He frames the entire...
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Chris Berg
Jul 25, 201911 min read
Critique of Revelation in Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth
Critical Analysis Barth opens section three with a discussion of God’s speech as imminently experienced in creation by human beings. He...
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Chris Berg
Jul 25, 20195 min read
Critique of Biblical Inspiration by Howard Marshall
Critical Analysis Marshall’s methodology for deriving a theory of biblical inspiration places the Bible’s self-understanding at the...
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Chris Berg
Apr 5, 201920 min read
The Resurrection and Confirmation or Myside Cognitive Illusions
Introduction One major attack against the resurrection is that Jesus’ appearances were psychological “visions” that were “unexpected…...
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Chris Berg
Apr 5, 20199 min read
The Importance of the Resurrection to Persecuted Believers
Introduction Persecution and martyrdom of Christians has reached an all-time high with more than “forty-five million” Christians having...
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Chris Berg
Mar 27, 201924 min read
Comparison of Evangelical and Pentecostal Theological Method
Introduction With an insurgence mirroring the explosiveness of the origin of Christianity itself, the Pentecostal movement boasts over 65...
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Chris Berg
Oct 13, 201825 min read
Archaeology in Support of the Resurrection
“if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.” 1 Corinthians 15:14 (HCSB)...
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Chris Berg
Sep 5, 20181 min read
American Gnosticism and Biblical Christianity
This is a presentation looking at the current form of American belief (modern Gnosticism) and how it has impacted the church. #america...
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Chris Berg
Jul 30, 201816 min read
Atonement Theology in the Early Christian Creeds
“Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can...
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Chris Berg
Jul 30, 20189 min read
Reconciliation and Colossians 1:15-20
Introduction “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was...
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Chris Berg
Jul 30, 201820 min read
Paul, the Gospel, and the New Creation
Introduction So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,...
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Chris Berg
Jul 30, 201829 min read
A CRITIQUE OF THE NEW PERSPECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF JUSTIFICATION AND ATONEMENT
God wanted to make known among the Gentiles the glorious wealth of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. – Colossians...
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 20181 min read
New Testament Reliability
This presentation covers New Testament reliability. *Includes slides given by J. Warner Wallace as part of his talk on Biblical Reliability.
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201811 min read
Motivations of the Crusaders of the First Crusade
In 2001, President Bill Clinton gave a speech at Georgetown University in which he cited as history that: “Those of us who come from...
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201814 min read
Fulfillment of the Law
“Is it any wonder that the unbelieving society around us is so lawless, if those who should have been light and salt to that same society...
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201817 min read
Is the Resurrection a Myth?
“Jesus did not die on the cross. He recovered from the effects of the poison, was helped to escape from the tomb by friends, and stayed...
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201814 min read
In Support of the Doctrine of Eternal Punishment
“Part of me doesn’t want to believe in hell… Don’t believe something just because you want to, and don’t embrace an idea just because...
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201812 min read
The Rationality of Final Causation
Abstract Final causation, with its theistic implications, is the best rational paradigm with which to understand purpose in the universe....
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Chris Berg
Apr 9, 201812 min read
Modified Warrant is Necessary for Knowledge
Abstract Plantinga’s concept of warrant provides that which is necessary to combine with justified true belief to form knowledge when...
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