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.
The “Hardware” of Life Argument
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Steve Williams “I can see the fingerprints of God when I look at you I can see the fingerprints of God and I know its true you’re a masterpiece that all creation quietly applauds and you’re covered with the fingerprints of God” ~from Fingerprints of God, by Stephen Curtis Chapman The common scientific view of […]
Why Science Needs God
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsAtheists are fond of asserting that religion and science are at war, and that science supports atheism. Upon closer review, however, “science” doesn’t support atheism or anything else. Why not? Because science doesn’t say anything—scientists do! Science is a method that people use to discover cause and effect relationships. Science doesn’t gather and interpret data, […]
Why Atheism Makes Reason Impossible
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsHow many times have you read or heard atheists claim to be champions of reason? They even organize “reason” rallies and call themselves “free thinkers.” There’s just one problem: there is no “free” and there is no “thinking” going on if atheism is true. Atheism makes free rational thought impossible. How so? If we are […]
Is The Doctrine Of The Incarnation Coherent?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton Reasons’ Greetings, everyone! Merry Christmas! I thought now would be a good time to write a blog post on what this holiday is all about: The incarnation of God Almighty. Christmas is the time we celebrate the birth of the God-Man Jesus. The Bible says “In the beginning was the Word, and the […]
When and What Time Was Jesus Born?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton This past Sunday, I received a wonderful question from a young man in our church. Matthew Cleary was in Sunday school and asked his teacher, who in turn asked me, “What time of night was Jesus born? Was it at midnight?” To be honest, I had never really thought about the question. […]
Five Reasons You Can Trust the Story of Christmas Is True (Free Bible Insert)
4. Is the NT True?Detectives create lists. As a cold-case detective, I’m no different. When investigating an event in the distant past (in my case, an unsolved murder), I collect evidence, make lists and do my best to reach the most reasonable inference. When I began to investigate Christianity at the age of thirty-five, I approached the gospels the […]
How the Ontological Argument Proves the Existence of God
2. Does God Exist?, CrossExamined, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” If this passage from Psalms is correct, then many people today are fools, for they insist that God does not exist. But the ranks of non-believers include many scientifically minded and highly intelligent people, not the sort we would normally consider […]
Resolving Christmas Conundrums
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton Christmas is one of my favorite holidays and has been for as long as I’ve walked this Earth. As a kid, it was because I got a boatload of toys on Christmas morning that I got to play with as Mom and Dad prepared Christmas dinner for us and the rest of […]
Crazy College Courses and the Religion of Sex
College Events, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsJust when you thought the state of higher education couldn’t get any lower, the Young America’s Foundation surveyed fifty major colleges to see what courses they are offering as legitimate “higher education” in the 2017-18 academic year. As is evident from a reading of the complete survey, the new religion in America— “the religion of sex”— has taken […]
If Evolution is True, Atheism is False
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Tim Stratton Atheists often appeal to evolution in an attempt to explain the primate complexity we observe today without a need for an Intelligent Designer — God! Indeed, many say the reason they affirm atheism is because they believe evolution is true. Since their hypothesis does not include God as a designer, atheists feel justified in […]
Is Christianity a Form of Superstition?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato Superstition is as old as man. An incomplete picture of why things work the way they do fuels the imagination to conjure up hidden forces at work behind the scenes. Pull back the curtain and perhaps one will find an “all-powerful” being at work pulling the strings. Accessing – and eventually perhaps […]
Do Christians Have a Bias to Believe?
CrossExaminedBy Al Serrato To the skeptic, most Christians – certainly most who appear willing to “defend” their faith – may seem a bit one-dimensional, perhaps in some cases fanatical. They seem so convinced of their views, regardless of how bizarre some of these views seem to the unbeliever. Many conclude, then, that the believer is […]
Why Do Josephus And The Gospels Contradict Each Other About John The Baptist?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus was born in A.D 37. In about A.D 90, he wrote his book “Antiquities Of The Jews” in which he writes a history of the Jewish people. In this work, he mentions several individuals who appear in The New Testament such as Jesus, James’, the brother of […]
Ten Divine Attributes of the Messiah
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Mark Lowry wrote a beautiful song called Mary, Did You Know. The song features questions that Mark would ask Mary if he had the chance. One of the lines inquires, “Mary, did you know . . . that when you kissed your little baby, you’ve kissed the face of God?”. We are in the […]
Should Christians Reject the Soul for Biblical Reasons?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Jacobus Erasmus Question Dear Dr. Erasmus, Tim Stratton shared your post, Objections to the Existence of the Soul, to the UK Apologetics and Evangelism Facebook group, of which I am a member. In that group, there is a very knowledgeable Christian who does not seem to believe in the existence of a soul yet says he is […]
If Christian Moms Looked for Guidance as Much as Encouragement, Kids Would Have a Deeper Faith
Apologetics for ParentsBy Natasha Crain I haven’t blogged in a few weeks because I’ve been especially busy since the release of Talking with Your Kids about God. Speaking events and interviews take a lot of time! But it’s been a truly encouraging few weeks, as I’ve had the opportunity to hear from the first readers how the book […]
Being A Good Apologist Is More Than Knowing The Right Answers
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton 1 Peter 3:15 says to “Always be ready to give a defense to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have, yet do so with gentleness and respect” and 2 Corinthians 10:5 says “We demolish argument and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and […]
Who Is Jesus, According to Other Religions?
Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsPeople trying to discover the truth about God would be wise to take a hard look at Jesus before looking anywhere else. While that may sound like a bold assertion in and of itself, it really isn’t when you consider Jesus is the one religious leader who is most frequently mentioned by religious groups, whether […]
God Behaving Badly? – Introduction
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” – Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Christians maintain that God […]
Can God Balance Mercy and Justice?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato In a recent post, I addressed the issue of whether Christ’s death constituted a sacrifice. For many skeptics, Christ’s death, resurrection, and atonement for our sins constitute a major stumbling block. In response to that post, one challenger commented that he could not understand “why the death of Jesus was that big a […]
Historic Heresies Related to the Nature of Jesus
4. Is the NT True?Over the centuries, believers have sometimes struggled to understand the nature of God and the great mystery of Jesus. The Bible describes Jesus as having the nature and power of God, and the Gospel of John tells us that He existed before the universe began (He was, in fact, the creator of the universe). At […]