Category: SS

Same-Sex Matters (Race and Gender in Marriage) ~ Re-Posted Due To Currant Events

I wanted to share here some conversation and further thinking on a topic that was discussed vigorously amongst friends while partaking in choice hops this past Halloween weekend. The below is written in conversation style (almost all my posts are like this) for friends. So it... Read More
All Religious and Moral Thinkers in History Rejected/Never Endorsed Same-Sex Marriages (Challenged with Buddhism)

A point Dennis Prager makes is that this is the first time in human history where a “liberal elite” thinks it knows better than all previous religious, political, and moral thinkers before them. I have been challenged on this point and so I enter here a response to... Read More
Was Jesus Black? (Conversation Series) ~ UPDATED

I have, for some reason unknown to me, many run-ins with Black Hebrew Israelites. God, either through my personality or bringing these people to my cyber door step, allows prolonged conversation with these very earnest people. This is one guy I like, he is witty, funny, and... Read More
The Incoherence of the Cultural Relativist Making Moral Pronouncements ~ Conversation Series

Here is a great conversation that stemmed from another story — as debated on FaceBook. I commented on a story someone posted on their FaceBook about an Iraqi woman who was killed in her home, and whoever murdered her left a note calling her a terrorist and they (the... Read More
A Starbucks Encounter with Michael Berryman

I love to go to Starbucks, grab a cup of coffee, and read/study my favorite topics in book form. Once and a while I will bump into people well known in pop-culture. Michael Berryman was recently one of those people. Of course, he is best known to me from an 80′s classic,... Read More
An Ironman Supplement ~ Thin Nothing I

I thought I would post a few items for the average man to engage someone lightly about Genesis. Here I want to focus on larger, easier to defend positions and will also throw in some minutia for the person who is curious about the issue as well. I will give a short reply and... Read More
Reason and Faith (From An Old Debate-Updated)

Certain words can mean very different things to different people. For instance, if I say to an atheist, “I have faith in God,” the atheist assumes I mean that my belief in God has nothing to do with evidence. But this isn’t what I mean by faith at all. When I... Read More
The Shallow, Self-refuting, Incoherent, and Illogical Thinking of `Agnositc` ~ Vincent Bugliosi

I was surprised in listening to Vincent Bugliosi in an interview about his book, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question. Surprised because considering his book on debunking pretty much every JFK conspiracy known to man, I would expect him to realize his fundamental mistake that... Read More

Christianity and the Tooth Fairy: A UCLA law professor questions an Oxford mathematician (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Sep 16 2011 / in Apologetic, Religion, SS / No Comments »

John Lennox, Daniel Lowenstein

University of California, Los Angeles 2011

Children believe in the tooth fairy until their reasoning capabilities mature and they recognize this belief is neither grounded nor relevant. Does belief in Jesus Christ require a suspension of logic? Can Christianity be proven to be true? UCLA law professor Daniel Lowenstein interviews Oxford mathematician John Lennox with honest questions about Christianity and the grounds for faith. This will be followed by audience Q&A.

God’s Crime Scene ~ By J. Warner Wallace (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Sep 10 2011 / in Apologetic, Philosophical Apologetics, Sciences, SS / No Comments »

From Please Convince Me’s Stellar Works

God’s Crime Scene 1 – Possible vs. Reasonable

God‘s Crime Scene 2 – Abductive Reasoning

God’s Crime Scene 3 – Objective vs. Subjective Truth

Dr. Chuck Taylor lecures on the reliability of the Bible (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Sep 03 2011 / in Apologetic, SS / No Comments »

Pastor Bobby Conway Discusses the Emergent Church for Serious Saturday

By PapaGiorgio / Aug 27 2011 / in Aberrant Christian Teaching, SS / No Comments »

Do Atheists Themselves Say They Need God? Listen To See (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Aug 13 2011 / in Apologetic, Philosophical Apologetics, SS / No Comments »

Lecture by Dinesh D’Souza Which Responds to the varied claims made by the New Atheists (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Aug 06 2011 / in Apologetic, Philosophical Apologetics, Philosophy/Ethics, SS / No Comments »

(Serious Saturday) Skeptics Having Their Cake and Eating It Too

By PapaGiorgio / Jul 30 2011 / in Debate, Philosophical Apologetics, SS / No Comments »

Philosopher Glenn Peoples Discusses Science, God, and the New Atheist (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Jul 23 2011 / in Apologetic, Debate, Philosophical Apologetics, SS / No Comments »

If you want to hear a debate with the above man, here is the synopsis:

Torturing children for fun – is that absolutely wrong?

The Moral Argument for God states that there are such things as objective moral facts, and that objective moral facts must have an immaterial source – namely God. Therefore God Exists… Simple right?

However, atheist Cambridge Philosopher Arif Ahmed disagrees with the first two premises. He debates with New Zealand’s Christian philosopher Glenn People’s on whether the argument proves the existence of God.

So, are moral beliefs nothing more than our “preferences”? What do we do with the intuition that certain things are absolutely wrong? Are atheists who affirm moral facts but deny God, being inconsistent?

The MP3 file is here.

William Lane Craig debates AC Grayling-A Serious Saturday Debate About God and Evil

By PapaGiorgio / Jul 16 2011 / in Apologetic, Debate, Philosophical Apologetics, SS / No Comments »

Biblical Literature Class by Mark Lanier~The House of David-Hebrew Alphabet (PART 1,part 2 next week) [Serious Saturday]

By PapaGiorgio / Jul 09 2011 / in History, Israel/Jewish, Religion, SS / No Comments »

The Lanier Library Lecture Series titled: New Evidences the Gospels were Based on Eyewitness Accounts,by Dr Peter Williams (Serious Saturday)

By PapaGiorgio / Jul 02 2011 / in Apologetic, History, Religion, SS / No Comments »

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About Papa Giorgio @ RPT:

Biased: I have my own interests and personal beliefs in mind when talking to others, spiritually or politically (Prov 21:2; Matt 15:19), because... I am Fallen: I am a sinner and tend towards ~ naturally ~ what is not best for me or others. In other words, I will probably let you down (Rom 3:10; Rom 3:23; Lam 5:16); Sentenced: since I tend towards rebellion and selfishness, I am judged accordingly and righteously (Rom 5:12; Rom 6:23a; Job 36:6); Forgiven: I am justified before God NOT through works but by faith (Eph 2:8-10; Gal 2:16; Rom 6:23b; PS 86:5); Relational: mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely do not deserve (Heb 4:16; Eph 1:5; Jer 15:19a). (FYI ~ all graphics below are click-able)