Ask A Pastor: Should I date a Baptist?
Question: I am interested in dating a Baptist girl, who professes Christ. I personally believe in infant baptism. Knowing that this isn’t a “salvation issue”, is this something we can…
Rev. David Vanbrugge is the pastor of Grace FRC in Brantford, Ontario
Ask A Pastor: How Do I Know There Is A God?
Question: “How Do I Know There is a God?” Answer: As it is stated, this could be a question about the existence of God, or a question about human knowledge.…
Christian Philosophy? (6)
HOW SHOULD I LIVE? Does it matter how I live? This is the philosophical question of ethics, which is said to be “the search for the meaning and standards of…
Christian Philosophy? (5)
WHAT AM I? Am I purely biological? Am I body and mind? Am I a soul captured by some dust? Am I the same person as I was ten years…
Christian Philosophy? (4)
UNDERSTANDING THE CHRIST-CENTERED METAPHYSICS OF COLOSSIANS What is real? Nothing? Perceptions? Material things? The eternal? The question of ultimate reality is generally referred to as the question of metaphysics. This…
Christian Philosophy? (3)
UNDERSTANDING THE CHRIST-CENTERED EPISTEMOLOGY OF COLOSSIANS “How do I know?” is usually called the epistemological question. Epistemology is the study of, “the nature and scope of knowledge, its presuppositions and…
Christian Philosophy? (2)
HOW DOES PAUL’S ARGUMENT IN COLOSSIANS RELATE TO PHILOSOPHY? Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the…
Christian Philosophy? (1)
Many Christians have warned against the perils of philosophy, arguing that it is, at best, human speculation.1 These people often quote Paul’s warning to the church at Colosse: “Beware lest…