The Christian Watershed seeks to demonstrate that Christianity is intellectually satisfying, but more than an intellectual exercise. The term “Christian Watershed” comes from Francis Schaeffer’s book The Great Evangelical Disaster, where he argues that in order for one to truly be called a Christian, there is a “watershed” (a certain level of belief) one must meet. My goal is to do my best to demonstrate where this watershed mark is through philosophy and theology. This website is dedicated to discussing philosophy, theology, and cultural items.
Recently, two ‘ethicists’ (I use this term very liberally, as in they talk about ethics, not that they’ve come to any substantial conclusion) have published the idea that it’s okay to kill infants as they are not really persons. The standard they offer for being a person with
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The healthcare mandate concerning birth control is still in the news and it has a few American Christians jumping on the hyperbole train. Now, make no mistake, I’m absolutely against forcing those with religious convictions against birth control (especially abortifacients) having to pay for sa
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The problem with modern Christian missions, in particular missions in the evangelical community, is that we’re developing missionaries who are far more concerned about saving the soul of a man than about saving the man himself, who stress the Hell to come while ignoring the Hell that is, who preach
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The Boston Review has a great article up about Brazil’s new policy to require high school students to learn philosophy. From my experience, some people would look at this and think, “What a waste of time.” It wasn’t even that long ago that Stephen Hawking ignorantly stated th
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(This is a rough draft of a concept and defense I’ve been working on. I hope to turn this into a full article at some point. I post it here for feedback.) Though modern humanists have attempted to cast doubt both on God’s goodness and whether or not His goodness begets an ethical ought, one &#
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A great point of contention among modern Christians is over what exactly occurs within the Lord’s Supper (or more appropriately, the Eucharist, or Divine Liturgy). Most of the contention surrounds John 6:53–60, but sadly many people bring theological baggage to the debate; thus, it is best to approa
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A fair warning to all who read this article: If you aren’t up to date on AMC’s The Walking Dead, then be forewarned that there are spoilers in this article. In fact, the entire article is one giant spoiler for Season 2 (up to this point at least). For those who aren’t familiar with the … Conti
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This is part of a larger paper that I am writing and working on. Law’s “Evil-God Challenge” is simply a section in the paper. In coming across Law’s “Evil-God” challenge, I’ve seen numerous Christian philosophers offer up an explanation to how we can know Go
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Some months ago I wrote a series of posts critiquing the Reformed doctrine of total depravity. As a result, I was promptly accused, by some readers, of being a Pelagian. It was then that I realized that I had made a rather notable mistake: I had failed to expound upon what I believed with regards
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Whoever oppresses a poor man insults [lit. blasphemes, taunts, defies] his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors Him. – Proverbs 14:31 (ESV with my own clarification added) What is extremely interesting about the above passage is that in the King James Bible, the order of the last
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