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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?
The placebo effect refers to the case when person believes he or she is taking a real medicine and receives health benefits even though actual medicine is not present in the placebo. In Christianity, ...
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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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According to Christians who argue for the testability of Christianity, what is a step-by-step guide on how to perform such a test?
"You shall not put the Lord your God to the test" (Deuteronomy 6:16). Depending on just what you are trying to "test", and how you approach it, you are potentially trying to prove ...
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According to Christians who argue for the testability of Christianity, what is a step-by-step guide on how to perform such a test?
This type of question is best answered with "a scientific hat" removed, because the testability of Christianity cannot be done via scalpels, test-tubes or bunsen-burners. It cannot be ...
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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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Patronage of Saint Thomas the Apostle?
Patronages of Saint Thomas the Apostle?
St. Thomas the Apostle is considered the Patron Saint of doubters, skeptics and cynics.
Because of his period of disbelief, St. Thomas has become the patron ...
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Patronage of Saint Thomas the Apostle?
He's the patron saint of the blind, craftsmen, geometricians, theologians (1), architects (2), and sometimes is thought of as a patron saint of India.
St. Albertus Magnus is the patron saint of ...
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Reconciling Genesis 1 with Science: Order of Creation
Genesis 1 says, (in Hebrew) "Burashyt bura Elohym at Heshmia'm v'at h'eartz"
"In the beginning (Burashyt) created(bura) God(elohym) the(at), Heaven's(Heshmia'm) and(v') the(at) h(the) ...
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