Entries by Sean Mcdowell

How to Help Doubters

e have heard many stories of Christians deconstructing and deconverting their faith. So, what’s the best way to help doubters, and how can we engage seekers? In this show, Sean McDowell fills in for Frank Turek and is joined by Preston Ulmer, author of The Doubter’s Club. Together, they address these issues: – How can […]

¿La fe cristiana es una fe ciega o irracional?

Skeptics sometimes portray Christians as both “unreasonable” and “irrational.” Christian culture only compounds the problem when it advocates a definition of “faith” without evidence. Is true faith blind? How do true believers respond to doubt? What is the relationship between faith and reason? Richard Dawkins once said: “Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. […]

¿Cómo pueden ser los evangelios relatos de testigos oculares si ellos incluyen cosas que los escritores no vieron?

Mi viaje hacia el cristianismo comenzó cuando examiné los evangelios con el fin de analizar las palabras de Jesús. Yo estaba interesado en Jesús nada más como una fuente de sabiduría antigua y mi curiosidad hacia su persona me hizo empezar a examinar cuidadosamente los evangelios. Me impresionó de inmediato la presencia de lo que […]

A Through Guide to the Non-Canonical Gospels

Many years ago, when I first became interested in Christianity, I encountered a book at a local bookstore entitled, The Lost Books of the Bible. As a new investigator of the claims of the New Testament, I was immediately intrigued. “What?” I thought, “There are books about Jesus that were lost?” I couldn’t help but […]

Historic Heresies Related to the Nature of Jesus

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 […]

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Why Shouldn’t We Trust the Non-Canonical “Gospel of Nicodemus” or “The Acts of Pilate”?

The Gospel of Nicodemus is an ancient text purportedly written by the man who visited Jesus in the Gospel of John. But is this non-biblical text reliable? Was it really written by Nicodemus? There are four attributes of reliable eyewitness testimony, and the first requirement is simply that the account be old enough to actually […]

Is There Life Out There? (Interview with Jeff Zweerink)

Between novels, movies and television series, some of the most popular story lines involve extra-terrestrial beings living on exotic planets somewhere in the universe. The notion of alien life in the cosmos has captured our creative imagination and our scientific focus. If you’re like me, you’ve probably given the possibility of extra-terrestrial beings some serious […]