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SMARTFAITH
by Kevin Simington
Helping believers think and thinkers believe. Kevin Simington is a prolific author and a popular keynote speaker in the areas of philosophy, theology and apologetics.
Episodes
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Did God Really Say That?
An exegetical defence of six-day creation. This episode investigates the internal biblical evidence that supports a literal reading of the six-day creation narrative in Genesis 1. There are several key Bible passages that completely refute the deep time narrative that some people try to impose…
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FAITH in FIVE: Why Isn't God More Obvious?
If God wants us to believe in him, why isn't he more obvious? There are FOUR very good reasons, outlined in this brief 5-minute podcast.
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FAITH in FIVE: So What if God Exists?
Episode 2 of FAITH in FIVE: So What if God Exists? Does it make any difference at all? Even if there is some kind of God out there, what relevance does this have to my life?
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FAITH in FIVE: Evidence For God
This is the first episode in the five-minute series, FAITH in FIVE, providing short answers to big questions. In this episode we examine the question, "What evidence is there for God's existence?" Is there any evidence at all?
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FAITH in FIVE: Which Religion is True?
Here is the third episode in my five-minute series, Faith in Five. It deals with the question, "Which religion is true?" and explains why Christianity deserves to be taken seriously out of all the world's religions. It also examines the main criteria that most people employ in assessing the…
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Evidence For Belief 23: 7 Historical Facts About The Resurrection
7 historical facts that support the resurrection of Jesus. These are historical facts that no serious historian denies, and the best explanation for them is that Jesus really did rise from the dead
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Evidence For Belief 24: Taking The Plunge
Explains the need to move beyond mere belief and turn to Jesus in true faith and repentance.
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Evidence For Belief 22: 10 Impossible Things For Atheism
Atheism requires that you believe in 10 impossible things. By denying God as the ultimate cause of the universe, the atheist is left grasping at 10 straws: a series of highly implausible explanations which, when considered together, amount to a cumulative impossibility.
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Evidence For Belief 21: Pascal's Wager
Pascal's Wager proposes that the question of God's possible existence has huge consequences and must be considered very seriously. It points out the potential eternal loss that faces those who reject God if it turns out that they are wrong and God does, indeed, exist.
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Evidence For Belief 20: National Miracles
Miraculous interventions in world affairs provide additional evidence for God's existence.
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Evidence For Belief 19: Existential Evidence
Existential evidence for God's existence deals with the subjective evidence of one's personal experience of God. This episode contains powerful testimonies of God's intervention in people's lives and also analyses the relevance and reliability of such testimony.
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Evidence For Belief 18: The Resurrection of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus provides the most convincing evidence for the existence of God. But did Jesus really rise from the dead? Or was his resurrection merely a myth perpetrated by fanatical followers? This episode examines the hard historical evidence.
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Evidence For Belief 17: The Miracles of Jesus
The miracles of Jesus, if they are true, represent powerful evidence for the existence of God. But are they true? Or are they simply mythical embellishments? This episode provides significant corroborating historical evidence for the miracles of Jesus.
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Evidence For Belief 16: Historical Evidence
If there is a God who created the world, is there any historical evidence of his ongoing intervention in our world? This episode examines literary and archaeological evidence which substantiates the testimony of the Bible's historical account.
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Evidence For Belief 15: A Fog of Gods
Is the “Something” we have begun to suspect is the ultimate cause of the universe actually a “Someone”? And is that “Someone” the Christian God? How can we possibly decide when there are so many religions which propose such a plethora of different Gods? This episode provides a brief, incisive...
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Evidence For Belief 14: Objective Morality (Part 2)
Objective moral values clearly DO exist. They are not merely conjured up via group consensus or popular vote, but appear to be more basic and intrinsic. There seems to be a set of moral values that exist independent to our changing opinions and which are imprinted indelibly onto our souls. These...
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Evidence For Belief 13: Objective Moral Values (Part 1)
If there is no God, moral values have no absolute, objective basis. Without an external, objective set of standards, all we are left with are the shifting sands of personal or communal opinion.
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Evidence For Belief 12: Do Aliens Exist?
The possible existence of intelligent extra-terrestrial life has intrigued humanity for centuries. But what does the scientific evidence tell us so far? And what relevance does this have for a discussion of God's possible existence?
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Evidence For Belief 11: The Sun and Moon
The Earth’s relationship with the Sun and the Moon offers further evidence of a supernatural Creator. This episode examines some fascinating aspects of solar eclipses as well as other aspects of Earth's unique place in the cosmos.
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Evidence For Belief 10: Our Unique Planet
Our planet has a confluence of life-permitting habitability factors that defy statistical probability. These point to the work of an all-powerful intelligent designer. The fact that no exoplanet of the thousands discovered so far is even remotely close to Earth-like reveals that our planet is...
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Evidence For Belief 9: Consciousness and Cognition
Human consciousness and cognition cannot be explained by a purely materialistic universe. Atoms and chemicals don't think and can't give rise to self-awareness and the ability to engage in abstract thought. Consciousness demands an immaterial explanation.
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Evidence for Belief 8: Finely Tuned Universe
The extremely fine-tuned universal constants that undergird the existence and operation of our universe are so precisely fine-tuned and inter-dependent that their precise values could not be a product of mere chance. The exquisitely precise values of all these life-permitting forces speak of a...
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Evidence For Belief 7: The Origin of Life
Examines the gaping scientific holes in the concept of abiogenesis – the naive belief that biological life somehow formed from non-living matter via random chemical processes. Mounting scientific evidence points to the impossibility of life evolving spontaneously via natural processes. As the...
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Evidence For Belief 6: Molecular Machines
The incredible world of molecular machines that operates within the living cell provides powerful evidence for the existence of an Intelligent Designer. This amazing realm of irreducibly complex interdependent moving parts cannot have evolved by incremental random chemical processes. With...
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Evidence For Belief 5: Amazing DNA
DNA is the complete set operating instructions at the heart of almost every cell. It is a genetic code that is more complex and sophisticated than any computer code mankind has ever written, and it could not have developed incrementally and gradually. DNA can only have come from a supreme...
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Evidence for Belief 4: The Living Cell
Living cells were once thought to be simple blobs of protoplasm that could have evolved gradually from random chemical combinations in a primordial swamp. But modern microbiology has revealed the irreducible complexity of the living cell and demonstrated the impossibility of proteins and amino...
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Evidence for Belief 3: The Impossibility of Infinity
An eternally existing universe is both logically and scientifically impossible. This episode examines the profound implications of Newton's Second Law of Thermodynamics as well as several philosophical arguments, all of which point to the inescapable conclusion that the universe had a finite...
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Evidence for Belief 2: Big Bang in Trouble
The Big Bang model of the birth of the universe is increasing plagued by problems, with some scientists abandoning the theory entirely. Something else must have been at work, at least in conjunction with a supposed Big Bang, to create the complex structure and behaviour of the universe that we...
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Evidence for Belief 1: The Origin of the Universe
Recent cosmological evidence points to the universe beginning to exist at a finite point in space-time. This, in turn, leads to the logical conclusion that the universe has a cause that lies outside of itself and beyond space-time. With stunning images and scientific quotes from experts in their...
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GOD AND SUFFERING: A LOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
The prevalence of suffering in our world prompts sceptics to conclude that God is either powerless, evil or non-existent. But is there another alternative? This podcast reveals how these three common explanations for suffering are unreasonable and unsupported by the balance of observable…
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The Most Misunderstood Psalm in the Bible
This is the most misunderstood psalm in the whole Bible, despite the act that it is the best known and most lived psalm in the Bible. This message will open your eyes to the surprising message of Psalm 23. You will never read this psalm again in the same way!
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Towards a Theology of Suffering
How can we reconcile a world that is so full of suffering with a God who is supposedly both good and all-powerful? This episode examines a variety of theodicies which attempt to reconcile this apparent conundrum and proposes an explanation that is intellectually robust and biblically sound.
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Grace to Start Again (John 21)
A sermon on the second miraculous catch of fish in John 21 and Jesus' reinstatement of Peter.
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Helping believers think and thinkers believe. Kevin Simington is a prolific author and a popular keynote speaker in the areas of philosophy, theology and apologetics.
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Helping believers think and thinkers believe. Kevin Simington is a prolific author and a popular keynote speaker in the areas of philosophy, theology and apologetics.
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