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 Opening Summation First, recommended |
| The Documents on this Site categorized, updated frequently |
| My "Elevator Speech" |
| No Truth? Then No Rationality...And No Enduring society! |
| 12 Historical Facts Grounding Jesus' Resurrection |
| 13 Darwinian Objections to Intelligent Design, answered |
| 17 Clues from Genesis 1 Indicationg Creation is Ancient |
| Apologetic Methods: The Bible's? or Theirs? |
| Absolute Truth: What it IS and What it IS Not |
| The Absolutely Urgent Necessity to Persuade |
| Achieving a Coherent Picture of Genesis 1 |
| 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 |
| Astrophysicist (YEC), Dr. Jason Lyle, My Rebuttal |
| What Atheism Cannot Account For |
| Authentic Science Cannot Function Under a Double-Standard |
| The Bible Must Harmonize with Science... |
| The Biblical Demand to Take Another Look |
| The Biblical Extent of Noah's Flood |
| You Cannot Prove God's Existence... |
| "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 an LCMS Professor |
| Christian Discipleship in Light of the New Covenant |
| A Contentious Rebuke from LCMS professor, Dr. David Adams |
| 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 Response |
| What Converted Multitudes at Pentecost and Beyond? |
| "The DaVinci Code," my critique |
| Damaging Ramifications Far Broader than the Age.... |
| "The Design Revolution," my book review |
| A Diet of Worms is Necessary for Growing Churches |
| Disarming the Perceived Conflict (between science and religion) |
| 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 |
| Flawed Liberators? or Clueless Thugs? |
| Fox News Alone Exposes the Truth about the Riots |
| Genesis 1:1 Easily Accommodates 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 |
| "God's Prints are Everywhere:" Atheist Jim Corbett's Critique |
| Ham Must Never be Swallowed Whole! |
| Harris's and Biden's Lies about Their Opponents' Character |
| Have Skeptics No Intellectual Obligations? |
| A Hebrew-Faithful Translation of Genesis 1 |
| Hoax? Myth? or Literally True? (Jesus' Resurrection) |
| "Hoax/Myth" Challenge by Atheist Kalle Spolander |
| How Scientific Pretenders will be Caught With Their Pants Down |
| How the Left has "Won" |
| Ignorance Will Not be Bliss for Long |
| "In Christ All Things Hold Together," My critique |
| Humanistic Ethics Cannot Create a Free and Just Society |
| The Intellectual Fraud of Marxist Dogma |
| The Infinite Gap Between Rationality and Rationalism |
| Intellectual Death and the Logical End of secularism |
| Ignoring One's Opposition is an Intellectually Vacuous Ploy |
| An Indespensable Factor in Minimizing Mass Shootings |
| The Inept Band of Those who are Wise in their Own Eyes |
| The Sheer Irrationality of Leftist Demands |
| The LCMS Bondage to Non-Biblical Boundaries |
| 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 |
| Luther's Ministerial/Magisterial Dialectic, a Vindication |
| Marcus Borg of the Jesus Seminar and my interchange with him |
| Materialism is Utterly Irrational |
| Can Merriam-Webster De-Racistify Blacks? |
| The Mission of the Holy Spirit (with respect to Apologetics) |
| Naturalism Misunderstands the Nature of Nature |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astronomer, My Rebuttal |
| Not Even Biblical Writers are Infallible Outside of Scripture |
| One Minute Apologies list |
| Only One Possible Way to Establish Truth |
| Paul Maier, LCMS Official Lauds 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 |
| 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 |
| Romans 1:18-23, a study |
| 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 Erly 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; My exchange with Him |
| Stephen Hawking's, "The Grand Design," my critical review |
| Stephen Meyer's "Signature in the Cell", my analysis |
| My Sky Diving Experience as a Clue to the Gospel |
| Straight to the Highest Authority |
| Socialism Led to a Hundred Million Murders |
| Spike Psarris says the Big Bang Never Happened |
| Thomas's Sin and Thomas's Treasured Savior |
| The Truth About Donald Trump and White Supremacy |
| Totality Summarality of the Sun |
| Transgenderism Public Policy That I Decry as "Imbecility" |
| 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? |
| We're Midway |
| We Were Not There; And it Matters Not |
| 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 |
