An Auspicious Inception?

So, I go to a Christian school, and today I was sitting in Bible Class, listening to the teacher lecturing on Humanist ethical bases; or rather, the principles upon which Humanists base their ethical codes.  The fantastic part about it is that the quotes from leading humanists actually said that they had no basis for an ethical system without God. Of course I found this very interesting because I find that I believe this as well; namely that without an overarching authority determining right and wrong, what is right and wrong? But these Humanist speakers took this one step further, saying that without God, there was no point to an ethical system because there was no one to enforce it. Whether there is a literal enforcer for a moral code or not, a code requires consequences or rewards to be effective. 

In Christianity these are provided as well as an overarching “enforcer” so to speak of a moral code. While at times this may seem daunting, this ensures we don't go to anarchy or worse chaos. (Because I must admit on a rare occasion anarchy sounds just the tiniest bit fun.) If there were no right, there would also be no wrong. And just think of all the wrong things you would rather remain that way, morally wrong that is. Makes ya glad you have someone up there watching over you huh?

Yes, that's right, I jumped right into my first post. My introduction to you. This is my chance to talk about my faith. I think of this as an intersection of theology, Christian Apologetics, common sense, and personal opinion. There is so much to be learned. I hope to offer some common sense for those of us who still have difficulty discussing our faith with non-believers, or debating it with those holding other viewpoints. No, I am no expert, but these are my thoughts and some hard-earned experience that might help out.

Contrary to common belief, Christianity is just as, if not more, defensible by science than any and every other worldview. It has as much (and in most cases more) historical fact, logical reasoning, and followers as any other religion, philosophy, belief or standpoint. This is just a place for me to post my musings on the subject, and give some tips whether you're doubting, or you are trying to convince someone else! Feel free to post to this with questions, or other comments :) 

Essentially my goal here is to encourage, to organize my own thoughts, and to hopefully get people thinking. My biggest aspiration here is to launch an advice column side-by-side with this page to address specific issues, particularly those facing Christian youth.

I will try to keep this as typo, grammatical-error, and spelling-error free as possible, but I tend to write posts in the wee hours of the morning (or in my opinion really really really late at night).


My Biblical basis:

“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” - Hebrews 24:10-25 (ESV)

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”- 2 Timothy 3:16-17  (ESV)