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I'd say that it’s a valid point to ask whether one or two of his books could suffice. I have not yet read any of Sowell's books and so can't respond directly. I did, however, ask Chat GPT to respond to your criticism... To directly address the critique: Why five books? Sowell has written...

You've got me beat! I haven't read but a half dozen or so of them.

As you say, it is a place to start but I ask the question, not to discuss evidence per se, but to get to your more fundamental presuppositions. I know that such leading questions can get tiresome and so I won't string you along for much longer. You're already very close to the answer. Notice...

I've posted a summary of the first book here..... The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is the first book in a new list of 100 books that everyone should read that I recently posted. I finished reading it yesterday and so I though I'd post a summary of the book here.... Summary of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis In The Abolition of Man...

The premise of your implied argument here would suggest otherwise. I'd wager that you have no idea what the bible actually teaches about almost anything. He has done precisely that! It is human beings that confuse it - very often on purpose. On the contrary. I will prove it - if you stick...

Don't end up making the same idiot mistake the Ayn Rand made and think that everything that passes for Christianity even remotely resembles what the bible actually teaches. First and foremost my worldview is rational and it is Christian only in the sense that it is consistent with what the...

I don't follow.

There is no evidence to support that the fig tree represents anything else.... Hosea 9:10 – "I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became...

A week. Of course, there is no way to be dogmatic about that answer but there is good reason to accept the conjecture that Adam and Even fell on the following Friday. See the link in JudgeRightly's post for details. I'm curious to know why that would have been your first question.

The difference is free will or the lack thereof and, by extension, the existence of justice or the lack thereof.

Here's a hint... The fig tree is Israel. The fruit is faith.

Death, in the biblical sense of the word, is always a spiritual separation. Physical death happens when one's spirit separates from the body. Spiritual death is when the spirit of a man (human) is separated from God. It is the later of these two that definitely would not have occurred prior to...

You need a new version of the bible! That is a perfectly awful translation of that passage!

The only books of Lewis' I've read are the Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. Brilliant stuff, to say the least! I'm two thirds of the way through "The Abolition of Man" and would definitely say that it does not have the same feel as either the Narnia books or Mere Christianity, both...

As if you've read any of it to know. Your first sentence negates the validity of the second.

Suicide. If one is wanting to kill the mind, what good does the body do them?

So, I was watching a movie several evenings ago and the main character was reading the last of a list of 100 books that everyone should read and it inspired me to find a similar list of books to read. I was somewhat surprised to find out how many such lists exist and so I enlisted the help of...

A tattoo is an object.

James is indeed talking about justification but he isn't implying that the readers themselves are necessarily unsaved but he is talking in general terms. He is talking about how they got saved and how they would remain saved. One could lose their salvation in the previous dispensation, by the...