Arbitrary means “making a claim in the absence of evidence.” An arbitrary idea is one that is not connected to any particular observed facts. Arbitrary ideas are worse than false ones, for they make no attempt at knowledge and they divert the mind away from any process of knowledge.

The Bible plainly teaches that if you want to serve God, you should be baptized. Jesus told his followers: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ... Water baptism is a necessity for all who desire to have a relationship with

Many irrational ideologues typically reside in the bailey, where they make radical, unsubstantiated and probably wrong claims in order to attract attention and support.

Because of their weakness, these claims are easily attacked and difficult to defended.

If the flawed claims are attacked by scientific skeptics using any kind of science-based approach, they retreat into the easily defended keep on the motte, deny that they ever believed or used bailey claims. Instead, they deploy motte claims that are easily defensible and sometimes even trivially true.

Defenders then try to portray critics as intellectually weak and suggest that they are only attacking bailey claims (which are labeled as straw men), despite the fact that the same individual defender or the ideological movement that the defenders belongs to commonly use these bailey arguments.

The underlying strategy used by defenders is to assert that since the motte claims are true, the bailey claims are also true, but this is not always made explicit.

Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is. Today we are going to get to the bottom of what the Bible says faith is, once and for all. This post will be useful to Christians an

Proverbs 11:26 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 26 He who withholds grain, the people curse him, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.