Campus Preacher

We brush on Joshua Harris’ divorce and #PurityCulture, as well as continue our response to Dr Peter Atterton’s “A God Problem.”

Over the next few weeks, I’ll look at God’s attributes of omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience, and whether or not they present a problem for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This week I focus on omnipotence.

Intro and outro music: All Saved Freak Band “The Sower.”

In March, the NY Times published an opinion piece arguing that theism, understood as “God” being an “omnipotent,” “omniscient,” and “omnibenevolent” being is incoherent. I introduce that issue, which we will address over the next few weeks each one of these attributes and seek to show they are actually coherent.

Norm Geisler passed today, so I speak about his influence on me early on in my Christian life, and then I address “why pluralism?” or, really, why so many different religions? At the Tower of Babel God divided the Nations and handed them over to the “sons of God,” but kept Israel for himself.

In this episode, we look at the claims of pluralism, both religious and political, that suggest the exclusivist religious claims are arrogant intellectually and morally. We show that pluralism is open to the same charges they make against exclusivism and is in fact an “exclusivistic” point of view. The ASFB leads us in and out with “The Sower.”

The early Church was birthed in the Roman Empire, a pluralist society that persecuted the early church. The American Empire has some parallels to the Roman Empire, including pluralism, and it is willing to tolerate all forms of worship, as long as they fall in line with the American Empire. This week, building out of Francis Schaeffer, we look at why the early church was persecuted and how that squares with current pluralist notions. Thanks to The All Saved Freak Band for allowing me to use “Sower” for my intro and outro.

Pluralism is a central element of our society and any evangelism is going to have to deal with pluralist objections, both intellectual and psychological. We introduce the issue this week  as well as look at A.W. Tozer’s “The Old Cross and the New”

Ever so brief look at Horus and Mithra re: Christianity copying their religious dogmas. We also touch on revival and prayer in the expansion of the Kingdom.

This episode I round out the historicity of Jesus and touch on the idea that the Pauline Epistles are actually “mythological” in nature and not rooted in a real, historical Jesus. As always, the All Saved Freak Band’s “Sower” brings us in and out.

Abortion is front and center in the news, so I explain how I discuss the topic on campus. And I round out the fact of arguing for the historical resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth by 1 Cor 15:1-9 and Gal. 1 & 2. Also, as always, I’d like to thank the AllSavedFreakBand.com for allowing me to use their music for my intro and outro.