Category: apologetics
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I realize the popular conception is that beauty is subjective, “in the eye of the beholder.” However, I affirm with many theologians and philosophers that beauty of objective because it originates and is grounded in the very nature of God (God is beautiful – Psalm 27:4). To quote Australian apologist…
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There is significant controversy surrounding John Allen Chau’s ill-faited attempt in 2018 to share the gospel with the world’s most isolated people on North Sentinel Island, a 20 square-mile speck of Indian territory in the Andaman archipelago, 30 miles west of Great Andaman in the Bay of Bengal, and home…
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Alisa Childers is a former CCM singer and a Christian apologist. Her web site is here. She gives her story here talking about challenges to her faith and how she solidified her faith, becoming intellectually convinced of the veracity of the Christian worldview.
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I’ve always marveled at how Christ precisely fulfills the Old Testament Jewish feast days. Consider . . . 1) Passover (Leviticus 23:5) – Pointed to the Messiah as our Passover lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7) whose blood would be shed for our sins. Jesus was crucified on the day of preparation…
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1 Tim 6:15-16 says “he (God) who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality.” This raises an intriguing question. If God “alone has immortality” how do we reconcile this with the truth that the soul is immortal? This…
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The Christian Researh Institute has an excellent article here on the second century apologist, Athenagoras of Athens. “Athenagoras of Athens is one of three great Greek pagan philosophers who, during the second century AD, converted to Christianity on account of the wisdom of its teachings and the moral lives of…
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There is an interesting essay here, written in 2004 from a Roman Catholic perspective, on the rebirth of apologetics. As the culture spirals into darkness, becoming hostile and pagan, we find ourselves in a situation similar to the early second century which gave birth to such apologists as Justin Martyr,…
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“America’s infatuation with all things Ozempic is rife with issues a jab just can’t cure. The new pills may mean even bigger problems for a culture—and Christians—wrapped up in weight . . . In his book Seven Daily Sins, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Jared Wilson cites gluttony as “the big…
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Lactantius, writing early in the 4th century after Constantine had assumed power and the persecutions were over, noted in Book 2 of his Divine Institutes that the church was empowered over the demonic. In chapter XVI of Book 2, Lactantius writes concerning demonic entities, “They (the demonic) do indeed injure,…
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“Fair-Weather” Christians are tepid believers, following Christ only when it suits them and offers material advantages – i.e., when the sun is shining. When persecution comes and there is a real cost to following Christ, they quickly fall away (Matt 13:20-21). During my time in Saudi Arabia in the early…
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Christian Apologetics 