Nat Crawford - Executive Coach, Speaker, Leader

This past Spring I read a host of books ranging from topics including: Orthodoxy, the creation debate, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, arguments from the existence of God, and God's foreknowledge. What does this mean? If time allows a lot of content for the blog and website. This is the first of the blogs I will be writing. I read a book called Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views  by James Beilby. If you are interested in purchasing this, you can do so on Amazon.com . This is a comparison of four views of God's foreknowledge from different scholars. What do we mean by God's foreknowledge? We mean what does God know and when does He know it. Over the next four weeks, we'll summarize four views starting with open theism as explained by Gregory Boyd. I will refrain from commentary until then last addition. Let me reiterate, I am not claiming which of these is  my view, but rather a concise summary of the authors explanation and view of these opinions on God's fore...

Before I dive into teleology, let me blog briefly on the detection of design to expound on my last blog: The Case for Intelligent Design. It is first important to know what design means, as well as a way for design to be detected. The term “design” means the “purposeful arrangement of parts.” Imagine you were at Grand Central Station in New York. You walked into the main hall and it is very busy. People are rushing to catch their train. Others are stopping to grab coffee.  Over in the corner is a man selling magazines and newspapers. You look down to check the time. You look up and you see a woman motionless, apparently frozen.  You scan the room and see more than a dozen more motionless. This goes on for over a minute. You stare in amazement by this.  Another minute goes by and they all go back to their activities. In an instant they are freed from their paralysis.  Then from the balcony above you hear clapping and a loud “Great job everyone!” You ask a woman wh...

Who made God? This is very common and good question. I think we all have asked it one form or another. I think it is important to look at the words of God, "' You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord , “And My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me " (Isaiah 43:10 NASB). Unlike the universe, which most in modern science agrees had a beginning, God is infinite and therefore eternal.  God is therefore the logical and only uncaused first cause. To assume that because the universe had a first cause, the cause of the universe must have had a first cause is illogical. It will always go to the question "and what caused that cause?" A submission to honest logic will show that the universe is real and not an illusion like an illusionist's trick. The universe did not appear out of nowhere and from nothing. It did not happen by bact...