Month: May 2025
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Effective Apologetics is part science but mostly an art. An apologist must not only be knowledgeable but also an artist in how he wields that knowledge. There is no “magic bullet” argument that works every time. There is no template that says do A, then B and then C .…
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University of North Carolina sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton in 2005 published a massive study of the religious beliefs of teenagers. Their conclusion was that most of these teenagers adhered to a variation of Deism called moralistic therapeutic deism (MTD). This form of deism is certainly not limited…
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By Bob Pratico Ironically, one of the charges against the early church during the multiple persecutions by the Roman Empire was that of “atheism” because the Christians had abandoned the pagan gods. In 112 A.D., Pliny the Younger, then Roman governor of Bithynia, wrote the Emperor Trajan seeking counsel on…
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Cultures will eventually begin to inevitably exhibit the logical consequences of their dominant worldview(s). Christian theism is in the minority in our culture today. The worldviews that reign today in our culture are deism (especially moralistic therapeutic deism which I will explain in a later blog post), naturalism, nihilism and…
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All 4 gospels are apologies.Matthew defends Jesus to Jews as fulfillment of the OT and the Jewish Messiah.Mark defends Jesus to Gentiles as the God-Man and suffering servant of Isa 53.Luke defends Jesus as the Son of Man (Dan 7:13) and Davidic son.John defends Jesus as the Son of God,…
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10 May 2025 Pontius Pilate asked the right question when he queried Jesus – What is truth? (John 18:38). Ironically he was staring truth incarnate in the face. So what is truth? While some might offer a convoluted philosophical response, the answer is simple. Truth is whatever accords with reality.…
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06 May 2025 What kind of man repeatedly says that he is coming back from the dead on the third day after his execution? In response, CS Lewis offered his famous trilemma: such a man must either be a (1) liar, a (2) lunatic . . . or (3) the…
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05 May 2025 So far, we have considered 19 known facts surrounding the empty tomb of Jesus that was found on the Sunday after Passover sometime between 30-33 AD. Most skeptics should should be able to agree with these facts. While the resurrection is not the only theory that can…
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04 May 2025 As noted in part 1, the tomb of Jesus Christ was found empty on Sunday morning. On that fact, there is no disagreement. Everyone present agreed that the tomb was empty: the Romans who executed Jesus, the Jewish Sanhedrin who condemned him, the entire populace of Jerusalem…
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Christian Apologetics 