Can Rationality Come from Non-Rationality?

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Logical Proof of God

What Is the Argument from Reason, and How Does It Destroy Atheism?

If your brain is just a swirl of atoms bumping into each other, why trust anything it tells you? That’s not a rhetorical question—it’s the fatal flaw at the heart of naturalism. In this article, I unpack the Argument from Reason, a devastating challenge to atheistic materialism famously advanced by C. S. Lewis. Drawing from Lewis, Paul Gould, and presuppositional heavyweights like Van Til and Bahnsen, I make the case that reason itself—your ability to think, reflect, and infer—only makes sense in a world created and governed by the God of Scripture. If you’ve ever wondered whether atheists can account for logic, or how to expose the internal contradiction of naturalism, this is where you begin.

Christ or Chaos: Why Only the Biblical Worldview Holds Up to Reality

If you say the world is an illusion but live like it isn’t—checking for trucks before crossing the street—you’ve already disproven your own worldview. Reality won’t let you pretend forever. Only the biblical worldview is comprehensible, coherent, and corresponds to reality. That’s why it’s not Christ or reason, it’s Christ or chaos.

Irresistible Grace: God Always Gets His Man

If God has set His sights on you, you’re done for. He’s going to save you. Not maybe. Not potentially. He’s not waiting for your permission. He’s God—He always gets His man. That’s Irresistible Grace. And once you see it in Scripture, you can’t unsee it. This article shows how God’s sovereign grace overcomes our dead hearts, answers the objections, and puts all the glory where it belongs—on Him.

The Pot, the Preconditions, and the Problem with Atheism

Atheism borrows tools it can’t explain. In this debate, I challenged an agnostic atheist to account for logic, science, and morality without God—and when pressed, he had to invent universe-making aliens. This article unpacks why only the Christian worldview supplies the necessary preconditions of intelligibility—and why denying that ends in absurdity.

Resurrection and Reality: The Truth That Transforms Everything

Easter isn’t just a symbolic holiday with pastel colors and chocolate eggs—it’s the celebration of the most important fact in human history: the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this article, Joel Settecase walks through 1 Corinthians 15 to show how the resurrection really happened, why it had to happen, and how it sets us free to live with purpose, trust, and unshakable hope.