Christian Apologetics

Defending Christianity as both true and rational

"but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense [Greek is apologia] to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect” (1 Pet 3:15)

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” CS Lewis

Category: apologetics

  • God help us. Massachusetts has formally decreed abortion (child sacrifice) up to the moment of birth. Read about it here. When you see the video of the ceremony and the excitement of the witnessing and cheering women as the govenor signed the bill, you have to wonder how many of…

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  • Mark Selzer has a fascinating excursion into Augustine’s understanding of time here. Augustine derived an understanding of time that is largely supported seventeen centuries later by physics. “In Book XI, of his Confessions, Augustine inquires into the nature of the human experience of time, or phenomenological time. Augustine arrives at…

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  • In 2025 Donald Williams, Professor Emeritus of Toccoa Falls College, brilliantly explored CS Lewis’ view on Hell here. “He mounted a brilliant and often insightful defense of traditional, supernatural Christianity that fully justifies his continuing popularity among the faithful. . . . Because Lewis was a popular and influential defender…

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  • The Gospel Coalition has drawn its line in the sand here regarding the use of AI and brilliantly elaborated on why I never use AI. The article is worth reading in entirety. “It’s an offense to the word “writing” to apply it to AI-arranged words and sentences. What AI produces…

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  • In Seminary, Ayman Ibrahim (a Coptic Christian who is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with two PhDs on Islam) emphasized the need to go to primary sources (not contemporary written “history”) to genuinely understand Islam. Raymond Ibrahim is also a Coptic Christian and likewise emphasizes…

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  • Steven Wedgeworth calls out the churches in Canada here with their participation in the country’s culture of death. “The only way that a church can find itself having “conversations” over whether to consecrate medical suicide is if it has already exchanged the testimony of God for contemporary cultural trends.”

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  • Augustine described the various states of mankind thus: Before the fall, Adam and Eve were in a state of posse peccare (able to sin) and posse non peccare (able not to sin) After the fall, all of mankind is in bondage to sin, a state of non posse non peccare…

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  • There is a news report here of a professor who exposed artificial intelligence (AI) cheating with 32 out of his 35 students failing because they used AI to cheat. “In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his…

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  • Cochlear implants are surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provide someone who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with the sense of sound. In many cases, someone who has never heard anything can hear for the first time. There is a remarkable video here of deaf people reacting to hearing, in some cases for…

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  • “And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” (Rev 12:9) Inception is one of my favorite science fiction movies. It depicts the ability to…

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