Interesting article and important letter... About the "right to change-allowing therapy", and the perennial tendency of politicians to restrict freedom of religion... https://world.wng.org/content/california_assembly_seeks_lgbt_affirmation_from_pastors_churches
Here is the response letter with great points and footnotes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9njBaZTrCfSc1pXTVR5NUc2T3c1OVJBcFRwd1piMjBJaVhZ/view
Our moral impulses point us to the existence of God...
Tim Keller ("The Reason for God") and C.S.Lewis ("Mere Christianity") explain this quite well. This past week I was talking with an atheist friend who thinks that morality can have a philosophical foundation in the natural world without reference to God.
This excellent recent article by William Lane Craig shows why my friend is mistaken. Craig discusses atheist Sam Harris' recent book "The Moral Landscape". It is a great article, worth pondering.
Atheists can be very upright and moral people, but they have not yet figured out how to philosophically reason from what "is" to what "ought to be", and never will, because what we "ought" to do is grounded in God's character.
DNA is code... Who wrote it?
These "#ScienceUprising" videos are very interesting.
This video series, "The Chosen", is a very interesting historical-fiction re-telling of the story of Jesus. The first four episodes are available for free watching this weekend only:
This is an interesting video discussion of the differences in the Arabic Quran versions, and the many scribal changes which were made over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00k6BBe0NsQ
While the sources of the Quran are thousands of years old, the final standardized (canonized) version was not finalized until 1924 in Cairo.
Even today, many differing versions of the Arabic Quran exist. https://www.answering-islam.org/Green/seven.htm Many Muslims are not aware of this, and will confidently say that all Arabic Qurans around the world are identical and are identical to the ones used by M. I own copies of two of the different versions myself, and it is easy to see the differences, even if you don't read Arabic.
By contrast, Christians admit that the Bible manuscripts have picked up scribal textual variants over the centuries. But we have so many thousands of manuscripts that we can easily see where the variations were introduced, and in almost all cases we can deduce the original reading. Most Bibles these days show the variants in footnotes.
It is so great to be able to have the Word of God (the Bible) in readable form, so we can know our Creator, and read of His self-sacrificial love for us, and look forward to meeting Him face to face.
Good article about modern apologetics (not just about his own story):
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