By Wintery Knight I’ve been listening to this FREE two-volume series on the book of Esther featuring pastor Alistair Begg. A whole bunch of interesting things stuck out to me, so I’ll write about one of them today. First, Esther is a Jewish woman whose father or mother died when she was young. She was […]
By J. Brian Huffling In 2004 I began to pursue an MA in Christian Apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary. I didn’t really know much about the topic, I just really wanted to know how to defend the Christian faith and have a better justification for my own beliefs. I realized that Christians and non-Christians had […]
By Maverick Christian INTRODUCTION For those of you who are philosophically unfamiliar, naturalism is the belief that only nature is real and that the supernatural does not exist. The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN), put forward by Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga, holds that the conjunction of naturalism and evolution is self-defeating. This is not an […]
By Bob Perry It is a scary thing to be disoriented. At best, it means you’re headed in the wrong direction. But if you’re flying airplanes, it means you have no reference to the ground. You can’t navigate. You may not even know which way is up. In other words, being disoriented is not just […]
By Robby Hall Often, I see other Christians objecting to the use of apologetics altogether. They will usually say that faith doesn’t require evidence, or it’s not faith. But is that the case? If we look at the word “faith” itself, we can get a clearer picture of what the Bible is actually talking about. […]
By Erik Manning There’s a dizzying array of arguments for the existence of God. For a newbie looking to get into apologetics, it can be intimidating trying to figure out where to start. You have the cosmological argument, but it helps if you know something about cosmology, physics, and even math. There’s the argument from […]
By Mikel Del Rosario The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife So your skeptical friend just heard about something called, “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” But unlike the fiction Dan Brown created in the Da Vinci Code, this wasn’t in a movie or a novel. She just caught another sensational segment on the evening news talking about how controversial this […]
By Terrell Clemmons I think it may be true,” Jim Wallace said to his wife, Susie. He was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling. “What may be true?” “Christianity.” Why did she need to ask? He’d been obsessed with the subject for several weeks now, talking her ears off on multiple occasions. It had all started […]
By Luke Nix Introduction One of the core necessities of science is the constancy of the laws that govern this universe. The fact that the laws of physics have the same since the beginning of the universe and will continue until the universe is destroyed allows scientists to not only observe and know what is […]
By Brian Chilton Often, critical scholars make Jesus of Nazareth out to be a country bumpkin, one who was uneducated and unsophisticated. However, when one evaluates his life and teaching style, it appears that Jesus of Nazareth was a well-polished individual who spoke and taught with great authority and wisdom. The Jewish leaders marveled at […]