“Take and eat.” This simple statement conjures up a host of thoughts and feelings for most of us. The first thought that comes to my mind is food, obviously. I enjoy food. It is a wonderful gift from God. It is currently fall here in the North Country of New Hampshire and to me that means apples and pumpkins. Applesauce. Cider. Pie. Every fall these things bring a little extra joy to my life. And this joy should point us to our very good God.
Read MoreIf you watch the History Channel, you’ve probably seen a documentary or two where a bunch of “historians” claim that the Bible had books other than the 66 you find in your leather-bound personal Bible…
Read MoreIn my apologetics journey, I’ve found myself engaging in dialogues and sometimes heated debates with people who want to attack the Christian faith and biblical worldview. Before I dove into researching tough questions and deeper Christian philosophy…
Read MoreHow many times have you heard this from an atheist: “You’re an atheist too! I just believe in one less God than you.” Maybe you haven’t heard this before, but there are some atheists who love to say this to Christians and laugh when they don’t have a response.
Read MoreSkeptics love to throw supposed Bible contradictions in the faces of their Christian friends or family. Many of them are quite pitiful and require only a few seconds of thought or a quick review of the context of the passages to refute. However, there are some that require a little more thought or in-depth study to resolve. The two accounts of the circumstances surrounding Judas’s death found in the gospels and Acts are somewhere in the middle of this scale of difficulty in my opinion. Here is how a skeptic is likely to word this challenge:
“Did Judas hang himself, or did he fall to his death? The Bible says both!”
Let’s take a look at the passages in question here and consider a few things
Read MoreNo, I haven’t lost my mind; I know that must be what you were thinking when you read that seemingly click-bait title. Rest assured I could have come up with much worse…
Read MoreA particular doctrine has come under heavy attack by “progressive Christianity,” and, while not a novel critique, it has recently entered the crosshairs of well-known figures such as Brian Zahnd, Greg Boyd, and Steve Chalke. The doctrine of which I speak is the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement…
Read MoreA particular doctrine has come under heavy attack by “progressive Christianity,” and, while not a novel critique, it has recently entered the crosshairs of well-known figures such as Brian Zahnd, Greg Boyd, and Steve Chalke. The doctrine of which I speak is the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement…
Read MoreA certain book has masquerading as a Bible for the last 20 or so years right under the noses of most evangelicals. It has been read in many churches including my home church and no one says anything because they are unaware of just how unfaithful this book is to the scriptures. I am talking of The Message Bible.
Read MoreThe first time you heard that there were so many variants in the manuscripts, you may have been a little shaken. This is understandable, but my intention is to settle your mind and heart on this issue by the end of this article.
Read MoreI know what you’re thinking: “What on Earth is the ‘pericope adulterae’?” I’ll tell you what it is; it is a very difficult subject to discuss with Christians for the first time. “Why?” you may ask. Well, if I told you that there is a very well known passage of scripture in your Bible that New Testament scholars believe was most likely not originally written by the authors, how would you feel?
Read MoreMuslims who study the Quran carefully find themselves in a bit of an uncomfortable situation. As I will explain in this article, if the Bible is the Word of God, Islam is false, and if the Bible is not the Word of God, Islam is still false. How can this be? Let’s take a look at some of the claims about the Bible found in the Quran.
Read MoreMany today, even some professing Christians, believe that Muslims worship the same God of Christianity. Is this true? Let’s look at what Islam really teaches about God and compare what we find to the teachings of Christianity.
Read MoreIn response to my last article on Mormonism, an old classmate of mine from high school messaged me with this question: “What makes you feel that Christianity is correct when many other religions share the same amount of evidence that they are true? (Almost none, if not none)”
Read MoreGrowing up in my home church I heard about these people called “Mormons,” and I was told hardly anything about them or what they believe and I even felt that I was being told that Mormons were born-again Christians, but they simply had some weird doctrines. As I got older, I met some Mormons and befriended several. Even they, however, struggled to tell me exactly what they believed as Latter Day Saints. If I were to summarize all of the answers I received, It would go something like, “It’s complicated.” Eventually, I decided to stop asking people about Mormonism and investigate it at the source.
Read MoreOne of the most common attacks on the Trinity focuses on the deity of Christ. The skeptic might say, “If Jesus was God, then why didn’t He just say, ‘By the way, I’m God’?” For emphasis, they might even grab your Bible, flip through the pages, and challenge you by saying, “Show me one verse where Jesus said that He was God. You can’t do it, because He never said it!”
Read MoreIn order to defend the doctrine of the Trinity, one must first know what the Trinity is, and what it is not. I add “and what it is not,” because often skeptics will try to attack this doctrine by setting up a “strawman” (A distorted version of an opponent’s position that is attacked rather than the real thing).
Read MoreA certain cultural attack on Christianity has been more commonly used in the last fifty or so years than it may have ever been. Believers nowadays are often blindsided with the following two questions:
“Oh you’re a Christian? Let me ask you something. Do you think homosexuality is wrong?”
*Christian answers, “Yes,” and perhaps even references a relevant Bible passage*
“Oh yeah? Well do you eat bacon? ‘Cause your Bible says that eating bacon is wrong too!”
Read MoreAlthough there are virtually no historical scholars today who doubt whether or not Jesus existed, there are still plenty of skeptic laymen (and women) who have only a pop-level understanding of the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth.
Read MoreIn his book The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins says the following: “If you tell me that God created the universe, then I have the right to ask you, ‘Who created God?’”
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