CrossExamined Blog
Tackling today’s toughest questions, these posts explore topics on God, morality, science, and culture.
Whether you’re a skeptic or believer, each article challenges your worldview and sharpens your thinking. Engaging, thought-provoking, and unapologetic, this is a place to dig deeper and follow the truth wherever it leads.
Does The Big Bang Require An Absolute Beginning To The Universe?
2. Does God Exist?By Luke Nix Has Dr. Sean Carroll escaped the theistic implications of the Big Bang? Does The Universe Have A Cause? One of the most popular arguments for God’s existence is the argument from the beginning of the universe. It goes like this: 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2. […]
Does Archaeological Evidence Confirm Names, Dates, And Places In The Bible?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight I spotted this post on Be Thinking by UK apologist Peter S. Williams. (H/T Eric Chabot at Think Apologetics) So let me pick the ones I liked most for this post. Here’s a good one: Jerusalem and The Pool of Bethesda John 5:1-15 describes a pool in Jerusalem, near the Sheep Gate, called Bethesda, surrounded […]
Are The Accounts Of Jesus’s Ascension Contradictory?
4. Is the NT True?By Erik Manning Bart Ehrman says that the author of Luke can’t seem to get the story of the Ascension of Jesus right. In his Gospel, Luke says that Jesus ascended into heaven the day of his resurrection. In The Acts of the Apostles, Jesus hung around for 40 days before leaving his disciples. Dr. Ehrman […]
Evidence in the Flesh for Apologetics
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Dawn Simon I was raised in a family and a community where religious beliefs were considered personal and virtually never discussed. I attended a Catholic grade school and continued with religion classes through high school. I was a good student and knew what I was supposed to believe – but no matter how hard […]
What Does Thermodynamics Have To Do With The Origin Of The Universe?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Bob Perry Big Bang cosmology isn’t the only scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning. There are parallel laws of nature that point us to the same conclusion. We get one of them from the study of thermodynamics. This is not something that is hard to comprehend. You already understand it because you have […]
The Make-Believe VeggieTales Video about Abortion
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsVeggieTales creator, Phil Vischer, has done some wonderful videos over the years. See what you think about this new 14-minute video he just put out on abortion. Now, before we analyze the content, what do you think is the main goal of this video? Is it to urge Christians to not merely focus on overturning […]
The Importance of Critical Thinking
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Kathryn, V. As a Christian apologist, it is easy to take for granted the understanding that when we impart information to others, they clearly comprehend what we are talking about. Now, that may be the case with well-studied and well-versed individuals who understand critical thinking, however, the average American has not been exposed to […]
Hard Evidence the Book of Acts Was Written by an Eyewitness? A Reply to Bart Ehrman
4. Is the NT True?By Jonathan Mclatchie Last week, New Testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman published an article at his blog, in which he responded to a reader who had asked him his opinion on a popular approach to arguing for the reliability of the book of Acts. The questioner specifically cites popular apologist Dr. Frank Turek and Acts scholar […]
The Slaughter of the Bethlehem Boys
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Moral atrocities litter the historical landscape. And this ought to make us sad. People do bad things. And they’ve been doing bad things ever since Genesis 3. It doesn’t take long for the fall to rear its ugly head in the Bible for in the very next chapter — Genesis 4 — […]
Challenges to neo-Darwinian theories of development
2. Does God Exist?, Philosophy of ScienceBy Julie Hannah In Article 1, “The arising of our universe: design or chance?” I discussed evidence for the design behind our finely-tuned universe, which has convinced some mainstream scientists of the existence of a transcendent Creator. Article 2, “Can living cells arise randomly from non-living chemicals?” presented recent research findings that call into question […]
Facing an Unknown Future with a Known God
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton This past Sunday, my family and I stopped by a local antique store after church. We were there for no reason but to check out their merchandise to see, as my wife says, “if there was anything that we couldn’t live without.” As we navigated our way through the aisles of the […]
Can living cells arise randomly from non-living chemicals?
2. Does God Exist?, Philosophy of ScienceBy Julie Hannah In Article 1, “The arising of our universe: design or chance?” I discussed evidence for the design behind our finely-tuned universe, which has convinced some mainstream scientists of the existence of a transcendent Creator. In this article, I present recent findings related to the theory that living cells arose through random operations […]
How We Can Know Who Created the Universe
2. Does God Exist?By Al Serrato It is difficult to overstate the importance of the discovery of the Big Bang. After all, even without sophisticated philosophical arguments, most people intuitively recognize that all things that come into existence must have some preceding cause sufficient to the task. But when science, or more specifically physics, supports the Christian worldview […]
Baby Elephant In China Cries For 5 Hours After Being Stomped By His Mom
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Wintery Knight From the New York Daily News. (Printable version linked) Excerpt: Little Zhuangzhuang, a newborn elephant at a wildlife refuge in China, was inconsolable after his mother rejected him and then tried to stomp him to death. Tears streamed down his gray trunk for five hours as zookeepers struggled to comfort the baby elephant. […]
Was Luke Wrong about the Census?
4. Is the NT True?, Jesus ChristBy Ryan Leasure One of the more challenging texts in the Gospels is Luke’s reference to the census. We read in Luke 2:1-5: In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to […]
The arising of our Universe: Design or Chance?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Julie Hannah How likely is it that our universe is the result of random physical operations? Scientists point out that shaping the universe into its present form required a very precise balance of many finely-tuned physical constants such as these: Gravitational attraction—This had to be in perfect balance with the rate of expansion to […]
How to Explain to Your Kids Why Social Justice Warriors Hate Christians So Much
Apologetics for ParentsBy Natasha Crain Black Lives Matter activists cornered a woman at a restaurant in Washington D.C. this week because she wouldn’t raise her fist in solidarity with their chants that “white silence is violence.” If you watch the clip of this happening, at about the 28 second mark you can hear the protester in front accusingly ask, […]
What If God Is Removed From The American Equation?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Luke Nix Warnings To A Godless Society Earlier this year, I highlighted the warnings of rejecting God, coming from the mouth of an atheist. Richard Dawkins saw the moral degradation of world society and couldn’t help to understand that the world’s rejection of God’s existence (that he, no doubt, helped catalyze) has led us here. He […]
Do the Genealogies of Jesus Contradict?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ry Leasure If you’ve read through the gospels, you’ve probably noticed that they share much in common. In some places, the wording is exactly the same. In other places, they’re so different it looks like they might contradict. These similarities and differences are often dubbed the synoptic problem. The word synoptic means “to see […]
Who Cares About Philosophy?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Huffling What do these questions have in common: Does God exist? Can God change? Does God know our future? How can a good God allow evil? How do humans know? What does it mean to know? What does it mean to be good? Can we objectively interpret the Bible? The answer: all of […]
Is Bart Ehrman Right When He Says That Acts Contradicts Paul’s Letters?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Erik Manning Agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman says, “the book of Acts in the New Testament contains historically unreliable information about the life and teachings of Paul.” In his book, Jesus, Interrupted Dr. Ehrman provides five examples of contradictions that exist between Paul’s letters and Acts. Ehrman writes, “These are just a few of the discrepancies that one […]