Culture Wars

Is Gambling Wrong?

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Mark W. Christy, PhD Those who have read the entirety of God’s Word know that it never says, ‘Thou shall not gamble.’ This being the case, it might be tempting to conclude that gambling is not a divinely prohibited activity. This approach to seeking counsel from God’s Word, however, is inherently flawed because the same reasoning could easily allow one to support all manner of substance abuse (other than alcohol). In this article, various teachings and principles will be extracted from Scrip...
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The Social Justice Delusions of Ed Litton, the Newly Elected President of the SBC

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By Mark W. Christy, PhD Note: This article is delving into the thoughts that undergird a couple of questionable remarks from Ed Litton. For his part, Litton publicly disavowed critical race theory (CRT) and claimed to stand firmly for “gospel reconciliation” in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett.[i] In the same interview however, he affirmed systemic racism, a concept that arises from the same neo-Marxist foundation as CRT and intersectionality. One should note that the Bible never speaks ...
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Critical Race Theory and Double-Speak at the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting

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By Mark W. Christy, PhD At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, it was overwhelming decided (and framed into a resolution) that critical race theory (CRT) and intersectionality are “analytical tools” that “can aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences.”[i] This kind of language ultimately led to an uproar among many conservative Baptists who understand that these theories (or opinions) have arisen from neo-Marxists who have turned to things such as race, sex, an...
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The Rationalism of Descartes and the Postmodern Shift in the War for Truth

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By Mark W. Christy, PhD Up until the time of the Reformation, the Church enjoyed a security and centralized foothold in institutions of higher education. In the 1600s, the centralization of God in the thinking of many scholars began to give way as the Age of Reason, the beginning of the modern period, came into fruition. With the rationalism heralded by the work of these thinkers among others, the rise of the autonomous self, loosed from the chains of religious constraints, had begun. Ren...
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If You are Right, Then You are Religious

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By Mark W. Christy, PhD In this contemporary age of relativism, many argue that truth either does not exist or is at least unknowable. With this philosophical stance being firmly established, these relativists boldly spurn exclusive notions of truth in general and religious declarations of the preeminence of exclusive truth in particular (especially those espoused by Christians who are deriving their truths directly from Scripture). In such an age of freedom from the constraints of religious...
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Cancellation of Christian Truth-Bearers: A Biblical Response

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While speaking to a crowd, Jesus delivered a scathing rebuke due their chief concern being for a sign of His validity (and that of His message). Specifically, he said, “The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here” (Luke 11:32 NASB). According to Jesus, the crowd had completely failed to come under the truth of His message; furthermore, they had failed to us...
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