Shining the Light of Revelation Onto the Encroaching Intellectual and Moral Chaos of our Day
Articles
You may notice that many (not all) of my footnotes reference other articles of mine that I posted on this page. I use this method in general in order to direct you to immediately-accessible information which I expand upon more thoroughly there. The articles are largely alphabetized except for occas-ional related articles that I couple together for that reason, or place at the top for emphasis.
This website is premised on my sense of urgency that seeking truth be our highest priority which is based on my perception of today's engulfing confusion over this matter. I earned both an M.Div. Degree from Luther/Northwest Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN in 1982, and an M.A. Degree in Science and Religion with Honors from BIOLA University in La Mirada, CA in 2016. If you are open to new information or to having your mind challenged, I encourage you to read on in this site. If you instead wish to challenge or refute my positions (which I welcome), then I urge you to firstly read through my works and THEN pose to me valid factual counter-arguments. I seek to exemplify this posture myself on this website by posting direct counter-views alongside mine. I further urge you to notice on the other hand that while I am eager to engage with other points of view, people who object to the positions I hold are often expressly unwilling to do the same by delving into free and fair-minded discussion. Indeed, I encourage you to heighten your awareness of this challenge on future occasions of seeking potential avenues for truth-seeking.
People may charge me with the bait-and-switch tactic because my website address is titled, christianityontheoffense.com even though I frequently dive into political matters. My reply is that political movements often delve into philosophy and even religion (Christianity in particular) including aspects of truth, morality, and world-view in general, which should be non-partisan. Indeed, I would argue that, if anything, aspects of the Christian message are necessary for the health of "secular" governance. So I judge that this intervention is fair game in debates about our biggest concerns.
Affirmation
"Gary, you have written an incredible amount of learned, well-argued materials in religion and science. I have read around in them and am very impressed...Thanks for the materials you gave me. It was very good to meet you and see your scholarly output." -- Dr. Robert Benne, Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Robert D. Benne Center of Religion and Society at Roanoke College. Also former Professor of the same at the Lutheran School of Theology.
"The so-called 'war' between science and religion' need not be prolonged...since there can be but one truth. You've raised some very important points in your essay, Gary ["The Elephant Standing Between Secularists and their Receptivity to the Good News of the Gospel"], which ought to spark serious discussion in our church -- and far beyond. You made very clear that belief in an older earth does not necessarily carry with it belief in organic evolution." -- Dr. Paul M. Maier, former LCMS 3rd. V.P., and retired Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University.
Initial-ization
CTCR: Commission on Theology and Church Relations of the LCMS
LCMS: Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
OCC: Old Cosmos Creation, 13.7 billion years old +/-
YEC: Young-Earth Creation (6-10 thousand years old)
This website is premised on my sense of urgency that seeking truth be our highest priority which is based on my perception of today's engulfing confusion over this matter. I earned both an M.Div. Degree from Luther/Northwest Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN in 1982, and an M.A. Degree in Science and Religion with Honors from BIOLA University in La Mirada, CA in 2016. If you are open to new information or to having your mind challenged, I encourage you to read on in this site. If you instead wish to challenge or refute my positions (which I welcome), then I urge you to firstly read through my works and THEN pose to me valid factual counter-arguments. I seek to exemplify this posture myself on this website by posting direct counter-views alongside mine. I further urge you to notice on the other hand that while I am eager to engage with other points of view, people who object to the positions I hold are often expressly unwilling to do the same by delving into free and fair-minded discussion. Indeed, I encourage you to heighten your awareness of this challenge on future occasions of seeking potential avenues for truth-seeking.
People may charge me with the bait-and-switch tactic because my website address is titled, christianityontheoffense.com even though I frequently dive into political matters. My reply is that political movements often delve into philosophy and even religion (Christianity in particular) including aspects of truth, morality, and world-view in general, which should be non-partisan. Indeed, I would argue that, if anything, aspects of the Christian message are necessary for the health of "secular" governance. So I judge that this intervention is fair game in debates about our biggest concerns.
Affirmation
"Gary, you have written an incredible amount of learned, well-argued materials in religion and science. I have read around in them and am very impressed...Thanks for the materials you gave me. It was very good to meet you and see your scholarly output." -- Dr. Robert Benne, Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Robert D. Benne Center of Religion and Society at Roanoke College. Also former Professor of the same at the Lutheran School of Theology.
"The so-called 'war' between science and religion' need not be prolonged...since there can be but one truth. You've raised some very important points in your essay, Gary ["The Elephant Standing Between Secularists and their Receptivity to the Good News of the Gospel"], which ought to spark serious discussion in our church -- and far beyond. You made very clear that belief in an older earth does not necessarily carry with it belief in organic evolution." -- Dr. Paul M. Maier, former LCMS 3rd. V.P., and retired Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University.
Initial-ization
CTCR: Commission on Theology and Church Relations of the LCMS
LCMS: Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
OCC: Old Cosmos Creation, 13.7 billion years old +/-
YEC: Young-Earth Creation (6-10 thousand years old)
| Read this Summary First |
| The Documents on this Site categorized, updated frequently |
| My "Elevator Speech" |
| No Truth? Then No Rationality! And No enduring Society, revised, 03-22-2024 |
| 12 historical facts affirming Jesus resurrection |
| How Analytical and Phenomenal Speech Reconcile |
| Thirteen Darwinian Objections to Intelligent Design Answered, revised 03-23-2024 |
| 17 Clues from Genesis 1 Indicating Creation is Ancient |
| Absolute Truth: What it IS and What it IS Not |
| The Absolute Urgent Necessity to Persuade |
| Answering my Opponents in Regard to Peter Atkins Atheistic Challenge |
| The One Advantage Leftist's Cannot Possibly Claim |
| Antifa |
| The Array of Cowardly Ploys the Left Employs |
| Why Antony Flew Renounced his atheism, his own words |
| Can Anyone Evade the Judgment of God? |
| Ask Skeptics What it is They Believe |
| What Atheism Cannot Account For |
| Authentic Science Cannot Function Under a Double-Standard |
| The Bible Must Harmonize with Science... |
| The Big Bang is Scientifically-Substantiated as a Fact |
| The Biblical Demand to Take Another Look at Genesis ch. 1 |
| Biblically-Dismanteling Young-Earth-Creationists' 24-Hour-Day-Tenet, etc. |
| The Biblical Extent of Noah's Flood |
| The Big Bang is Scientifically Substantiated as Factual |
| You Cannot Prove God's Existence But...... |
| "The Case for the Soul" |
| Climate Change Militantants Caught in a Gross Scientific Lie |
| Conceal-Carry Rights Rationale |
| Confronting Islam with the God of Redemption |
| Confronting Social-ISM with the God of Redemption |
| Critique of my "Biblical Demand..." by a disapproving LCMS Professor |
| Christian Discipleship in Light of the New Covenant |
| A Rebuke of me from LCMS professor Dr. David Adams and my reply. |
| Could God Do a Global Flood? |
| But Did God Do a Global Flood? |
| "Creationists' Trojan Horse," my book review |
| Crocodile Tears over Elon Musk |
| CTCR Challenge and My Response |
| What Converted Multitudes at Pentecost and Beyond? |
| "The DaVinci Code," my critique |
| Damaging Ramifications Far Broader than the Age.... |
| My Debunking of Dr. Peter Atkins' Atheistic Challenge |
| "The Design Revolution," my book review |
| A Diet of Worms is Necessary for Growing Churches |
| The Glaring Imbecility of Willful Ignorance |
| Disarming the Perceived Conflict Between Science and the Bible |
| Why a Dismissiveness of a Big Bang Creation is Anti-Scientific |
| Does the God of the Bible Exempt Himself from Rational Truth? |
| My Doctrinal Statement (application to BIOLA University) |
| Don't Swallow the Left's Pseudo-Scientific Demands |
| Eight Reasons to Employ Apologetics in Evangelizing |
| The "Elephant" Standing in the Way of Reaching Secularists |
| The Emperor Has No Clothes |
| Exposing the Emperor's Nakedness |
| The End of Apologetic Evidence |
| Five Darwinian Tenets Scrutinized By Hume's Analytical Criteria |
| The Choice: Flawed Liberators? or Clueless, Ruthless, Thugs? |
| Fox News Alone Exposes the Truth about the Riots |
| Genesis 1 Reconciles with Big Bang Cosmology |
| The "Genesis: Paradise Lost," movie errors |
| Getting Our Understanding About Sexuality Right |
| Are God's Purposes Deterred by Political Affairs on Earth? |
| God's Prints are Everywhere |
| Critique of "God's Prints are Everywhere" by atheist and debate opponent, Jim Corbett |
| Ham Must Never be Swallowed Whole! |
| Have Skeptics No Intellectual Obligations? |
| Hoax? Myth? or Literally True? (Jesus' resurrection) |
| "Hoax/Myth..." Challenge by Atheist Kalle Spolander |
| Hoax? Myth? or Literally True?" 15 page essay (the case for Jesus' resurrection) |
| How the Left has "Won" |
| Ignorance Will Not be Bliss for Long |
| LCMS' "In Christ All Things Hold Together," My critique |
| Humanistic Ethics Cannot Create a Free and Just Society |
| Exposing the Intellectual Fraud of Marxist Socialism |
| The Glaring Imbecility of Willful Ignorance |
| The Infinite Gap Between Rationality and Rationalism |
| Intellectual Death and the Logical End of secularism |
| Ignoring One's Opposition out of hand is an Intellectually Vacuous Ploy |
| Jesus' Resurrection Proved Beyond a Rational Doubt |
| The LCMS Addiction to Non-Biblical Boundaries |
| The Sheer Irrationality of Leftist Demands |
| Luther's Diet of Worms |
| LCMS Prof. Joel Heck's article, "Bible on Beginnings" |
| What the Left's Propensity to Silence the Right Leads To |
| Leftism's Claims to be Champions of Science is a Gigantic Fraud |
| Life on Other Planets? |
| Lutheran Theology and Decision Theology |
| Mainstream Science De-Capacitates Atheism |
| Liberal NT critic Marcus Borg of the Jesus Seminar and my interchange with him |
| Materialism is Utterly Irrational |
| Can Merriam Webster De-Racisity Blacks by Definition? |
| The Mission of the Holy Spirit (with respect to Apologetics) |
| Naturalism Misunderstands the Nature of Nature |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astronomer, My Rebuttal |
| No 24-Hour Creation-Days in Genesis 1 |
| One Minute Apologies list |
| Only One Possible Way to Establish Truth |
| Paul Maier, LCMS professor applauds my Views |
| The Perseverance of Pure Science Demands Reverence for Truth |
| The Pervasive Employment of Apologetics in the Bible |
| Dr. Peter Ward, my Conversation with him |
| Prejudice? or Bias? |
| Rebuttal of Three LCMS Statements |
| My rebuttal of YEC Astrophysicist, Dr. Jason Lisle |
| Only Redemption in Jesus Christ Can Bring Heaven to Earth |
| Richard Dawkins,' "The Greatest Show on Earth," my critique |
| Faith, Repentance, and the Lutheran Sacraments |
| Request that the LCMS Host a Debate on OEC vs YEC |
| The Revelation of God |
| Is Science-Honoring Trust an "Essential" Biblical Posture? |
| What Science Says About the Extent of Noah's Flood |
| Scientism is Not Science |
| Sean Carroll's Sleight-of-Hand Evasion of a Creator |
| The Self-Contradictory Core of the Cancel-Culture Agenda |
| Sensitive Answers to "Christian" Opposition to the Big Bang |
| How the Early Church Grew Explosively |
| I Share Scripture's Sense of Urgency for Truth |
| Should Tradition Trump Scripture? |
| Should YECs and OCCs Call a Truce? |
| Should We Ditch the Term "People of Faith?" |
| Skeptic Magazine editor Michael Sherman, my exchange with him. |
| Socialism Led to the Murder of 100 Million Victims |
| Stephen Hawking's, "The Grand Design," my critical review |
| Stephen Meyer's "Signature in the Cell", my analysis |
| Spike Psarris says the Big Bang Never Happened |
| My Sky Diving Experience as a Clue to the Gospel |
| Straight to the Highest Authority |
| Ten Erroneous Skeptic Dodges |
| Thomas's Sin and Thomas's Treasured Savior |
| The Triune God Dwells Within All who Receive Him |
| The Truth About Donald Trump and White Supremacy |
| Totality Summarality of the Sun |
| Transgenderism Public Policy That I Decry as "Imbecility" |
| The Transgender Societal Agenda Stands on a House of Cards |
| Truth is Falling Everywhere Except.... |
| Truth is Never Less than One |
| Unrestrained Secularist' Belief-Demands that are Absurd |
| How Two Witnesses Can Offer Contradictory Conclusions |
| Unassailable Scientific Facts Climate Change Militants Ignore |
| The Urgency of Uniting Truth with Christian Proclamation |
| The Virgin Birth of Jesus: Can Science Discredit It? |
| Was the Big Bang the Big Beginning? (written for my MA in "Science and Religion" |
| We're Midway |
| We Were Not There; And it Matters Not |
| What do "Scientists" who Snub the Big Bang Know? |
| What's Missing in Leftist Public Declarations |
| By Which Authority? |
| What if We Will be Judged by Only What We Know? |
| What is Really Wrong with the World? |
| When Christians Fail to Take up their Arms |
| When Refusing to Answer is an Admission of Guilt |
| When and Why the Bible Gives Science the Last Word |
| Why Censorship is Irrational |
| How Two Parties Witness the Exact Same Phenomenon... |
| Why Christian Apologetics is so Urgently Required |
| Why a Defense of Jesus' Passion is Biblically Necessary |
| Fearing the Lord is the Only Way to Personal Peace |
| Why I, as a Christian, Support Donald Trump |
| Willful Ignorance is Anti-Science |
| Why the Meteor Hit the Moon |
| You Cannot Get to the Moon by Means of Leftist Rationality |
| Young Earth Creationism Defies the Bible's Affinity with Science |
| Young-Earth Creationism Defies God's Prohibition |