Believing God Exists is Not Enough
Thursday, April 15th, 2010 : By Hugh Williams
Even the demons believe—and shudder!
James 2:19
I just noticed that Antony Flew died.
Professor Antony Flew was one of the most prominent atheist philosophers of the twentieth century. He had little in common with the so-called “New Atheists” like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and others; Professor Flew was an intelligent and amiable fellow who simply disagreed with theists on the facts. He even struck up a rich friendship with Dr. Gary Habermas, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Philosophy and Theology Department of Liberty University.
Then, in 2003, a funny thing happened. Antony Flew, atheist extraordinaire, changed his mind at the age of 80. He decided there is a God after all.
What changed his mind? Two things: first, the idea …
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Lessons from The Screwtape Letters—Lesson 18
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God Checkmates C.S. Lewis
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 : By Hugh Williams
What follows are selected exceprts from Chapter XIV, “Checkmate,” in Surprised by Joy, pp. 216-229.
All over the board my pieces were in the most disadvantageous positions. Soon I could no longer cherish even the illusion that the initiative lay with me. My Adversary began to make His final moves.
[With] the first Move… I was overwhelmed. There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness, and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over, the dry desert lay behind, I was off once more into the land of longing, my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham. There was nothing whatever to do about it; no question of returning to
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