In this teaching, I investigate the all important question: "Has Science Eliminated the Need for God?" In a culture that is growing increasingly more committed to materialistic naturalism, and to a strong devotion to "scientism", this is an extremely important issue to know how to address with your colleagues and friends when discussing the Christian Worldview. Here are 5 … [Read more...]
Putting God Back Into the Equation
As students of the Word of God, we receive many disparaging remarks about our precious Holy Bible. I can’t tell you how many times individuals have approached me, telling me how man alone wrote the Bible and use the fact that there are countless extraneous books left out to fit an agenda of modern Christianity. The Gospel of Judas, Thomas, Mary Magdalene, Jehoiakim, or whatever … [Read more...]
Ancient Non-Christian Historical Evidence for Jesus of Nazareth Part 2- Thallus & Pliny
Is there any historical reference to the darkness and earthquake that happened during the Crucifixion of Jesus? Did the Roman Emperors ever have correspondence concerning Christ? Part 1 In today's video, we will be looking at what two interesting Roman citizens, Thallus (Roman Historian, 52 AD) and also Pliny the Younger (Roman Governor, 112 AD), had to say concerning the … [Read more...]
Art of Reason – ancient earthquakes
The inability to understand what makes a good argument, and the inability to critique arguments is one of the key ingredients in miscommunication and the tendency to become argumentative. As described previously, good arguments help keep the tempers down. In order to develop a sense for logical glitches it helps to examine bad arguments to see where they go wrong. This is … [Read more...]
Book Review: Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job by Dr. Hugh Ross
Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job is a book written by scientist, pastor, and astronomer Hugh Ross.[1] While it is, in some sense, a commentary on Job, it is also a considerably different treatment than I have run across before. Most people who analyze Job immediately jump into the suffering Job experienced, God’s sovereignty, or something along those lines. While these would … [Read more...]
Book Review: Cold Case Christianity
Introduction Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels (Paperback Kindle, Audiobook) is one of the latest books to examine the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament. Detective Jim Wallace was an atheist before he began putting Christianity to the same tests that he places witnesses and suspects to in his investigations of … [Read more...]
Why Study Apologetics?
Ever met a Christian who told you not waste your time studying apologetics? I’ve known some well-meaning, but seriously misinformed believers who look down on the practice of providing evidence for the truth of Christianity. Why learn to give people reasons to believe? Here’s a quick response: Because Jesus gave people reasons to believe (See my previous post on this). His … [Read more...]
Transmission and Canonization of Scripture
[This post is a work in progress as part of the CAA Catechism.] [Add the title only in the title field, not in the body of the post.] Summary in 400 words or less: John Wenham writes, about the subject herein, there is no “absolute certainty.” However, one can have “adequate evidence” in which their conviction can be “dynamic” (Wenham, 192). This soberness is … [Read more...]
Ancient Non-Christian Historical Evidence for Jesus – FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, 1st century AD
"What does the Jewish Historian, Flavius Josephus, have to say about Jesus?" Well that's precisely what this new video will seek to demonstrate. One of the most famous and important non-Christian historical references to Christ, comes from the Jewish Historian, Flavius Josephus (1st century AD). What are the 10 solid historical facts he can tell us about Jesus? Watch and … [Read more...]
Trilemma or Quadrilemma? Answering the "Legend" Critique of C.S. Lewis's Trilemma
C.S. Lewis's famous Liar/Lunatic/Lord trilemma has been criticized for leaving out a fourth option: Legend. There are historical and textual reasons to doubt the legend hypothesis, but I believe it fails even apart from that external evidence. It's vanishingly unlikely to be true, based upon merely the New Testament documents themselves. … [Read more...]