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Why Do Some Christians Look to the Bible So Much?
Gene Callahan wants to know: I ran across the passage quoted below while researching job opportunities, as a pledge that faculty of a certain college must take before they can be employed there: “The sole basis of our beliefs is the Bible, God’s infallible written Word, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. […]
Read moreThoughts on Luke’s Resurrection Account
In church today we covered Luke 24: 1-12: 24 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them,[a] came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went […]
Read moreCriteria for a Good (Children’s) Bible Story
I read my son the story of Joseph, which (as a Christian but also an economist) is one of my all-time favorites. When we finished it I said to him that it was a really good Bible story, and he asked me what I meant. So I said there were three reasons: (1) The people […]
Read moreA Christian vs. Skeptic on Heaven and Hell
CHRISTIAN: Praise God! He sent His only Son to die for our sins, so that we could have eternal life. SKEPTIC: That is a repugnant doctrine. Putting aside all the scientific and logical flaws, look at what a tyrant your so-called God is. He is saying that if we don’t worship him, he burns us […]
Read moreLibertarians and Religion: An Airing of Grievances
On Facebook the other day somebody in my news feed had a status that was something like, “I can’t believe how many big name libertarians are religious. Don’t they know in a free market, most churches would be sued for fraud?” What was more intriguing was that a few people that I consider personal friends […]
Read moreIsrael Kirzner and the Invisible Hand
Von Pepe sent me this nice video of Israel Kirzner accepting an award (posted at Coordination Problem): As Kirzner explains, even though he of course understands the scientific study of “spontaneous order,” nonetheless he sees the hand of God behind events. This is yet another example of how atheists and theists can look at the […]
Read moreIs the Christian God Compatible With Misesian Action?
A lot of people can’t understand how I can write such great stuff 6 days a week, but then go batty on Sundays. (Krugman and DeLong, in contrast, think I’m consistently nuts.) One thing in particular people like to throw at me, is this passage from Mises’ Human Action: [T]he endeavors of philosophers to define […]
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