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.
God Is Greater Than Us. Always.
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Bob Perry Every year at Thanksgiving, we can count on seeing lists of things people are thankful for. I understand the desire to be grateful for all our blessings. There is no doubt about the fact that too many of us take those kinds of things for granted. It is also understandable that the […]
Gratitude is Easy…Contentment is Hard
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain Every year between Halloween and Thanksgiving, I feel a little uneasy about the countdown of blessings so many people do. Something seems slightly “off” about it, but I’ve never been able to put my finger on what it is. It’s like a gallon of milk that hasn’t actually expired. You know it should be good, […]
Why Celebrate Thanksgiving?
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Bernard Mauser Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philippians 4:6 Thanksgiving means different things to different people. Some say it is about food, family, and football. Others, that it’s a break from work or a time to stand outside of […]
How Should Christians Think About The Transgender Movement?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Ryan Leasure In this post, we’re asking the question: How should Christians think about the Transgender Movement? In many respects, this is a difficult question to answer because the movement is constantly in flux and definitions frequently change. Be that as it may, Christians must do their best to engage Transgenderism from a biblical worldview. […]
Divine Impassibility: God As Our Unaffected Fortress
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Huffling Several of my previous blogs have dealt with divine simplicity and some objections to the doctrine. As I have written, it is the most important divine attribute, even if it is hotly debated. Those who accept simplicity are on a completely different theological trajectory from those who reject it. I would argue that its acceptance […]
The Separation of Church and State Deception
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Josh Klein We’ve been duped. I cannot think of another way to put it. The Christian right has been duped. Deceived by what? You may ask. The separation of Church and State. What if I told you that the phrase “separation of Church and State” was found nowhere in the constitution or the Bill […]
Would Abolishing The Police Bring Us More Peace?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Jason Jimenez What will the aftermath be after disbanding or abolishing the police in our country? What will be the collateral damage? You see, my friend, when we fail to realize the actual problem and aggressively, without lawful consent, use extreme and illegitimate methods to correct what we think is the problem, all we […]
The Necessity of a Cosmic Mind
2. Does God Exist?By Brian Chilton Anyone who is anyone in apologetics has heard of the kalam cosmological argument. Short, concise, and powerful; the kalam argument notes the causal agency behind the origins of the universe. Simply put, the kalam argument holds: Everything that begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause (C&M, 102). After […]
The Fire-Breathing Dragon in The Garage vs God
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIn the year 2018 the debate “What Best Explains Reality: Theism or Atheism? (Frank Turek vs. Michael Shermer)” took place. Frank presented his case for the existence of God as the best explanation for some facts about reality, such as the origin and fine-tuned of the universe and the objective moral values and duties. One […]
How Do I Know that I Know?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Richard Howe In 2013, I had the privilege of participating in both a written and panel dialog/debate with K. Scott Oliphint of Westminster Seminary and Jason Lisle founder of the Biblical Science Institute. Oliphint is a theologian and Lisle is an astrophysicist. Both are proponents of the apologetic method of Presuppositionalism in the tradition […]
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 […]