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How can a case be made against reducing the Christian experience to the Placebo effect?
Since Jesus warned about the placebo effect in the Gospel of Matthew, there's nothing groundbreaking here. Occasionally modern research discovers--and gives an academic name to--something God revealed ...
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How can a case be made against reducing the Christian experience to the Placebo effect?
Christian experience is based on faith. The placebo effect refers to the case when a person believes he or she is taking a real medicine and receives health benefits even though actual medicine is ...
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How can a case be made against reducing the Christian experience to the Placebo effect?
In an attempt to answer my own question, I think Lee Strobel presents a good case in his book The Case for Grace: A Journalist Explores the Evidence of Transformed Lives:
Join investigative ...
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How can a case be made against reducing the Christian experience to the Placebo effect?
Short answer: Defining "Christian" according to the definitive source of that title (Acts 11:16) means that "the Christian experience" cannot be validly attributed to the ...
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What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's claim that Christianity is testable?
OP: What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's view [the testability of Christian relationship with God."]? Is this a common view?
Lennox, like many others throughout history, believe that a ...
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What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's claim that Christianity is testable?
The ultimate test of Christianity is a very personal one. A person may be deeply impressed and attracted by another's transformed character; may even be moved to "joining" with a particular ...
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What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's claim that Christianity is testable?
Dr. John Lennox is an esteemed Mathematician, Fellow in the Philosophy of Science, and much more besides. A year after his book "God's Undertaker: has science buried God?" came out, he ...
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What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's claim that Christianity is testable?
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Jesus outlined one of the most essential tests His followers would need in the Sermon on the Mount:
Ye shall know them by their fruits (Matthew 7:16)
His apostle Paul elaborated ...
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What is the biblical basis for John Lennox's claim that Christianity is testable?
I would not personally use the word 'testable' as it sounds as though someone is putting their toe in the water to 'test' whether they want to enter the water.
Whereas my own experience of the way of ...
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What are scholarly books for and against the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus?
The best scholarly book to consult on whether Jesus was raised from the dead or not, would be one written by eyewitnesses to his resurrection, also explaining from their pens how they refuted the ...
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Which prophecies does Justin Martyr claim predict Jesus' Advent? Please identify them
So it is a rather big question to cover what Justin explains, but if you keep reading in the First Apology most of the prophecies are listed, although not as clearly as one would hope.
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How to refute the argument that is is possible to be saved without Jesus and do apologetics for it
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If I understand correctly your two points, they can be worded as follows
Because there was an Old Covenant, there is no need to be saved by confessing faith in Jesus Christ, and Christianity ...
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