Have you ever been puzzled by the objections raised by skeptics in regard to Christianity? Or maybe you are one of those skeptics? If so, I'm glad you're here. As Dr. Ravi Zacharias would put it, "Apologetics is the seasoning, but the gospel is the main course." I love apologetics, I find it absolutely fascinating. I also secretly wish I had come into contact with … [Read more...]
Jesus In The Vedas?
On 8th May 2016, the Gospel Truth Newspaper flaunted the conversion of Hindus in New Zealand.1 Apparently, the conversion was motivated by Acharya Vikas Massey’s speech that the Vedas (Sacred Scriptures of Hinduism) pronounces the Lord Jesus Christ as the one and the only way to heaven. I was exposed to this rather stunning detail many years ago, and I was astonished when I … [Read more...]
Ungracious Christians
Philip Yancey, in his classic “What's So Amazing About Grace?” describes ungraciousness as, “Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.” Around us, ironclad in their … [Read more...]
Why do Good Things Happen to Bad People?
Introduction “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is a question that endeavors to label God as malevolent or powerless. This question presupposes that good people deserve good things, not bad things, because they haven’t done anything wrong, at least comparatively. When bad things happen to good people, the governance of our world seems bizarre. Consequently, this … [Read more...]
Hume Misses the Target
David Hume, and many of those who follow his thinking today, want to pronounce miracles impossible, or at least so unlikely that no one could ever rationally conclude a miracle has happened. One such person, a friend of mine has, in many recent discussions we have had, said resurrections are extremely unlikely, so we must conclude, given the normal course of events is that … [Read more...]
Why Did God Kill 25 Million People? (A Brief Response To The Atheists)
It does not matter whether God killed 25 million people, those numbers do not matter. Hence 25 million is not a number to be concerned about; instead the concern is about God’s justice, “Was God just in killing a large number of people as recorded in the Old Testament?” Justice is God’s ontologically necessary attribute, so HE cannot unjustly kill even one person. … [Read more...]
Has Science Disproved Prayer?
Atheists deploy science as an instrument to negate religion. Through the deployment of science, if they prove the ineffectiveness of prayer, they believe that they could deny God’s existence. Atheists refer to verses from the Bible that apparently mandate 100% answer to prayer (Matthew 17:20, 18:19, 21:22; Luke 11:9-10). So if a less than 100% answer to prayer is observed, … [Read more...]
Heart Attacks and the Sovereignty of God
I recently had a heart attack - 100% blockage in left anterior descending (LAD) artery that runs down the front of the heart and supplies the front and main wall. That kind of heart attack is commonly called a Widowmaker, which is a nugget of information I am glad I didn’t know that at the time. Why did it happen? Plaque dislodged and moved; that is the only thing that is … [Read more...]
Did Jesus Exist? (Part 5: Mara Bar-Serapion & the Talmud)
It’s remarkable that many thinking people today deny the historical existence of Jesus. In this series of articles, we have been exploring the evidence for the existence of Jesus purely from extrabiblical sources, rather than by appealing to the NT documents (see Evidence Unseen “Part Four,” 2013). In earlier articles in this series, we have considered the works of … [Read more...]
A god Who Admits All People to Heaven is…(God Cannot Save All People)
Very minimally, Universalism or Inclusivism asserts that God will save all people whether they believe in Christ or not. However, Universalism severely debilitates God, which I will now strive to elaborate. … [Read more...]