Essays Written from a Christian Point of View

Note: I am not a Christian anymore, though I was when I wrote these essays, of course. Some of them were even written when I still held to a very strict, conservative evangelical interpretation of Christianity, in fact. So obviously they do not reflect my current beliefs. But I’m keeping just a few of the essays I wrote as a Christian on this website, because I still regard these particular ones as making a few significantly interesting and valid points (along with a few invalid ones) even from my current perspective.

For more information on the state of my thinking soon after rejecting Christianity, see What Does It Mean to Be a Follower of Jesus? This was a vision for a kind of Christian religion I still could have identified with at the time (though I really woudn’t be interested in even this anymore).

Christian Apologetics and Difficulties:
- Presuppositional Spaghetti, the Lottery Paradox, and the Search for God (a critique of presuppositional Christian apologetics, and of a common atheist counter-argument)
- The Population of Israel in the Exodus (a mathematical anomaly in the census data found in the Bible)
Christian Theology and Issues:
- Rational Christian Eschatology [pdf] (a general case for an amillennial perspective on the future)
- Calvinism and Free Will (a critique of the Arminian, Molinist, and open theist conceptions of free will)
- A Nonexpert Review of the Book “Refuting Compromise” by Jonathan Sarfati (a critique of young-earth creationism)
- On the Personhood of Pre-implantation Embryos (a warning that the pro-life community is largely going too far)
Just for Fun:
- You Might Be an Evangelical American Christian Fundamentalist If . . . (slightly tongue-in-cheek, since I wrote it while still an evangelical Christian myself)

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