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  • Norm Geisler

    I know he's not very popular with some on here, but let's put all that aside for now. He's currently in a coma with a blood clot in the brain.
    "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
      1 Corinthians 16:13

      "...he [Doherty] is no historian and he is not even conversant with the historical discussions of the very matters he wants to pontificate on."
      -Ben Witherington III

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        Prayed.
        Watch your links! http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/fa...corumetiquette

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          Mercy to him...
          "What I pray of you is, to keep your eye upon Him, for that is everything. Do you say, 'How am I to keep my eye on Him?' I reply, keep your eye off everything else, and you will soon see Him. All depends on the eye of faith being kept on Him. How simple it is!" (J.B. Stoney)

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            "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

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            • #7
              God help him.
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                I'm always still in trouble again

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                  I heard about this from Mike Licona, asking for prayers for Dr. Geisler.

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                  • #10
                    Norman Geisler has passed away.
                    http://normangeisler.com/
                    The fact that science cannot make any pronouncement about ethical principles has been misinterpreted as indicating that there are no such principles; while in fact the search for truth presupposes ethics. - Karl Popper, 1987

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                      Despite his feud with Licona and others recently, I still had a lot of respect for Dr. Geisler as a scholar and apologist. A few of his books were the first ones I got as a new Christian wanting to learn apologetics. And now he and the others don't have a chance to make amends, and that is sad.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Sparko View Post


                        Despite his feud with Licona and others recently, I still had a lot of respect for Dr. Geisler as a scholar and apologist. A few of his books were the first ones I got as a new Christian wanting to learn apologetics. And now he and the others don't have a chance to make amends, and that is sad.
                        All the sheep will make amends on the Day of Judgment. This just makes the waiting period a little tougher for all concerned.
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                          "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

                          "Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman

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                          My Novella blog (Current Novella Begins on 7/25/14)

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                          • #14
                            From William Lane Craig's Facebook page today,

                            It was with a genuine sense of loss that I learned the news of Norman Geisler’s death. He played a pivotal role in my life. I first met Dr. Geisler when he came over to Dekalb from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School to speak for Inter-Varsity at Northern Illinois University on the problem of evil. I was impressed by his rational argumentation. Having graduated from Wheaton, I knew that I wanted to attend seminary, but at the same time I didn’t feel called to the pastorate, so the M.Div. didn’t seem the appropriate degree for me. But I learned that Dr. Geisler was spearheading a new program for an M.A. degree in Philosophy of Religion. This seemed tailor-made for me. I did not have an undergrad degree in philosophy, however, so to get into the program I had to qualify by scoring high enough on the Gradate Record Exam in philosophy. So I studied in my spare time all the next year and scored high enough to be admitted to the Trinity program in the fall of 1973. I spent the next two years under Dr. Geisler’s tutelage. That provided the crucial stepping stone for doctoral work in philosophy with John Hick in England. Dr. Geisler was thus the critical link in the chain for me.

                            I bear his imprint. He gave me a strong appreciation for the history of philosophy, which has served me well. Most importantly, however, he convinced me of the need for a robust natural theology. This emphasis was and continues to be somewhat out of the “norm” (no pun intended) for Christian philosophers, but those of you who know my work will realize how indelibly Norm Geisler stamped me with his mark. I never embraced his Thomism, but I fully embraced his emphasis on the value and cogency of arguments for God’s existence. I owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.

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                              He was the first scholar I came across when I got into apologetics. The book I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist was one of the very first books I read that shook me out of my Agnosticism/Atheism. I recently got his book When Skeptics Ask and now finishing it up. I didn't agree with some of his Theology given I am more Reformed. Despite that, he was a great defender of the faith who was very knowledgeable of the issues and was able to convey them for the common person to understand.

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