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The name derives from the Greek word telos, meaning goal or purpose.  The argument contends that as we observe certain features of ourselves, the world, and the universe, we have the strong intuition that these features were designed to achieve some special purpose or goal. Many thinkers have asserted that these instances of design point to an incredibly powerful and intelligent designer – God. Scripture seems to validate this intuition in passages like Psalm 19:1-4 and Romans 1:19-21. Famously, the design argument was the fifth of Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways of rationally discerning God’...

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Reverend Horton believes that Osteen tells only half the story of the Bible, focusing on the good news without talking about sin, suffering and redemption. And Rev. Horton goes even further. He levels the harshest charge of all, calling the Osteen method of teaching heresy. “It is certainly heresy, I believe, to say that God is our resource for getting our best life now,” Horton says. “Because?” Pitts asks. “Well, it makes religion about us instead of about God,” Horton explains. Not too long ago, 60 Minutes did a piece on Joel Osteen. In case you missed it, you can find the trans...

Cosmological Arguments (from cosmos + logos: world + argument) are theistic arguments that have historically played an important role in natural theology. The arguments attempt to infer from the existence of contingent (able to not exist) facts, events, or beings, “a first cause . . . or a personal being (God).” Since everything that exists depends for its existence on something else, and because this series of causes and effects can’t be infinite, the chain must end with something whose existence does not require an explanation. Natural theologians argue that this is God. Versions of th...