My Dad was a Jew, and I am not deaf to the complaints of my Jewish family and friends who doubt that Jesus was the messiah. Like the original disciples and Jews of Jesus’ day, their main expectation was that the messiah would effect an...
Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? (2 Corinthians 13:5) It doesn’t really matter what others think of our current state...
The Importance of this Question Jesus of Nazareth is reported to have done many miracles in the bible, including casting out demons, healing the sick, raising a man from the dead, stilling a storm with a word, and of course, raising himself from the dead...
A while back, I put a long comment on a Buzzfeed article entitled 7 Shocking Bible Verses You Probably Won’t Hear In Church. Since then, it has become the most popular comment, so I thought I’d reproduce it and expand on it here. The graphics on...
My skeptic friend at the Facebook group Atheism vs Christianity (no holds barred) is at it again (see my last post), asking me questions. I guess that’s a good thing. However, every time I look for a nice canned answer already written by some apologist, I find...
Former Christian and now atheist Cara has a blog at Think Atheist, and posted this list of questions (questions originally posted by Thomas Swan) and how she would have answered them as a Christian. I’m not sure if these answers now seem inadequate to her,...
One challenge to the Christian faith is the claim that the uneven distribution of faith around the globe may challenge some of Christian claims about God. This topic is nicely described in this abstract: According to the much-discussed argument from divine hiddenness, God’s existence is...
You could classify objections to the claims of scriptures in three categories: External – historical or scientific inaccuracies Internal – too many textual variants or obvious interpolations and other later edits Internal – logical inconsistencies In this last category falls the serious objection known as...
