Jake Alba

In this article, I just want to share my thoughts, reflections, and my understanding about the response of Dr. Greg Bahnsen to the problem of evil and suffering often used by many people to refute Christianity, ultimately, the existence of God. The problem of evil and suffering. This is too evident and can be even testify by a random guy we can find in the street. Or even we ourselves can prove the existence of it. The problem of evil and suffering is true for it is happening anywhere anytime in anyone. Today, we are hearing many news about crimes committed by men to their neighbors. Drug trafficking, prostitution, abortion, adultery, corruption in the government or even in a small organization, kidnapping, robbery are only some things we can classify as evil and suffering. Forms of evil and suffering that are first in our list. Even bad things that are happening around us like this pandemic and other natural disasters and calamities are considered as evil. And as Christians we can...

Apologetics, as defined by Steven B. Cowan; “the defense of the Christian faith against charges of falsehood, inconsistency, or credulity.” At first, I only have a little idea what apologetics is. All I know is that in it, you have to argue or debate with other people about what they know regarding religious matters. Little did I know that it is what people do, especially religious people in order to defend what they claim to be true. And in Christianity, we also have this practice, and knowing apologetics is also a must. Apologetics, derived from the Greek word “apologia” which was used before as a speech to defend oneself or a reply to a message. It was a practice in the ancient world in their courtrooms after an accusation is given, the defendant was given a time to refute the accusation making his defense or his “apologia”. I can still remember some of my Greek vocabularies of which I learn from my Greek Subject. The Greek word “apo” is a preposition word which means “away”, whil...

In this short blog of mine, I would like to reflect and react on what I think one of the most important part of Bertrand Russel’s essay “Why I am not a Christian” This essay of him is a well-known critique against Christianity that was published in many different language translations. It was on March 6, 1927 when he delivered this critique-turned-to-article to the National Secular Society in London. Before I start on my main intention, I would like to give a brief summary of Russel’s essay. In his essay, Russel begins by defining first what he meant by the term Christian. In order to point it out quickly, he just gave two great importance which “for him” are quite essential for one to be called a Christian. The first importance is, that one must believe in God and immortality. Second is, one must have a belief about Christ, that he is divine, or if not, at least the best and wisest of men. After defining what a Christian is, he then considers a number of logical arguments for th...