A bit of apologetics…
This is a piece of a debate between the Rational Response Team and the Way of the Master evangelical foundation. I’m not a big fan of these evangelicals, I think they could have done way better in there debate, or the Rational Response Team could have chosen someone else better to debate if they wanted a real challenge, but this is just a small rebuttal on what this woman says.
Watch this video.
The first thing she says is “intelligent design is not science precisely because it is impossible to test it that way”. Here is something to ponder: can evolution be tested in any way? She also says that the creator is no more likely to be YAWAH than a flying spaghetti monster. Here is something else: Is there an ancient book, written in the time span of a couple thousand years, by over 40 different people from all walks of life with no apparent contradictions at all written about the flying spaghetti monster and his relationship with his people? I don’t believe there is, if so, please tell me.
She talks about magic, which doesn’t make sense at all because no where in Christian theology is there any type of “magic”, only the Holy Spirit. She also takes something one of the Way of the Master guy’s responses and twists it around. He talked about how we have natural morals that most people have, even the most doubtful atheist would say that Hitler was an evil man, and what he did was wrong. He pretty much says that these morals come from God. Allow me to quote from R.C. Sproul…
Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity. — R. C. Sproul
Of course this is a theological issue. If this woman would want to get into theological issues, I would tell her to Google the Christian doctrine of Total Depravity. She says that these morals are just something passed down from generation to generation, but she fails to define the origin of which these morals started, much like the concept of evolution.
She talks about other religions and why they could be just as true as Christianity, but I have already addressed this point with the flying spaghetti monster issue. She gets into the Old Testament laws, and she talks about how they are not really a big deal anymore, but she fails to debate Christianity on this one, she -for some reason- is attacking Judaism.
She juxtaposes how our morals have to come from an ultimate source, which what we believe to be God; and how democracy needs an ultimate source, and she said it was Captain America. America isn’t even a democracy lady, its a republic. Besides that, this issue it irrelevant to this debate.
Near the end she claims that in Christianity, morality itself is obsolete, and that the only thing that matters is belief in Christ, and faith. If she would study up on the people she is trying to bash, she would understand that the scripture says that good works come by faith. She brings up Hitler and how he was supposed to be catholic, and how if our “theory” was correct, he would go to heaven because he believes in God and Jesus. If he was a Christian, and he was baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and he trampled the blood of Christ like he did and had such hatred in his heart the Bible claims that his punishment would be much more severer than if he wasn’t baptized…
Hebrews 10:29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve [Heb 6:6] who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Besides all of this stuff, this woman (other than her lack of love for God, which is pretty much alot more than anything else) is a perfect example of a beautiful creation of God. I don’t see how she thinks she there and the way she is only by chance.
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