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.
If Kids Don’t Understand Why Miracles Don’t Discredit the Bible, Their Faith Will Be Easily Crushed
3. Are Miracles Possible?, Apologetics for Parents, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain “The light of common sense, thrown on the stories of making snakes out of rods, of the Red Sea dividing itself, of Christ’s making wine from water, curing blind men by rubbing spit in their eyes, walking on water, the story of the flood, God’s making the world in six days, of making […]
Apologetics is Not For The Heart
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Richard Eng Growing up, my Dad taught me apologetics. He was really excited about it, and good at it too. As someone who studied under Norman Geisler at Southern Evangelical Seminary, my Dad got some of the best training out there. As a result, He taught me a lot of what I now know. I found myself […]
Redeeming the Kavanaugh Debacle
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Michael Sherrard People are hurting. People are angry. And truth be told, fear is the likely emotion consuming many right now– fear of losing position and power, fear of retaliation, fear of exploitation. Some fears are appropriate and some fears misplaced, but all fears can become something dangerous if left alone. Christians, now, is the […]
How the Most Important Attribute of God Relates to Christian Apologetics
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy J. Brian Huffling Many issues that surround Christian apologetics are philosophical in nature. Thus, if we are going to be good apologists we need to be good philosophers. Evangelical apologists and philosophers typically follow the analytic tradition in philosophy, which seeks to answer individual questions or problems, but it lacks a systematic approach to […]
Does The Bible Promote Slavery?
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure “Consult the Bible, and you will discover that the creator of the universe clearly expects us to keep slaves.” 1 This provocative statement by atheist Sam Harris is meant to cast shade on the God of the Bible. After all, if civilized humanity overwhelmingly condemns slavery, why should we worship a God who thinks it’s […]
Book Review: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ
4. Is the NT True?, Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Luke Nix Introduction In my late teens and early 20s, I was wrestling with many questions about what I believed. I had several challenges to my Christian faith that ranged from the philosophical to the scientific to the historical. One of the challenges that would not go away, due to some college professors and […]
Do We Have Reasons to Believe in God’s Existence?
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton Recently, news agencies filled the airwaves and the internet with the news of Stephen Hawking’s last book to be published and released posthumously. The book released on October 16, 2018, is entitled Brief Answers to the Big Questions. Hawking argues through a series of essays why he didn’t think that God existed, did not […]
Answering Two Common Objections To The Author Of Life Argument
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton When atheists accuse God of being immoral, they usually point to nasty Old Testament accounts like the conquest of Canaan, God sicking two female bears on a group of youths for harassing Elisha, or destroying humanity in a massive flood (Genesis 6-9). In addition to various other considerations regarding these specific incidences, one factor I […]
10 Signs the Christian Authors You’re Following are (Subtly) Teaching Unbiblical Ideas
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain My friend, Alisa Childers, recently wrote a review of the bestselling book, Girl, Wash Your Face, by Rachel Hollis. It started a firestorm of online discussion about what makes someone a “Christian” author, what responsibility a self-identified Christian author has in promoting ideas consistent with biblical faith, and what harm there can be for Christians reading […]
“Don’t Mix Politics & Religion!”
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Tim Stratton Complaint: Dear Tim, I love you man, but I don’t want my politics and my religion mixed. I look up to you for religious context and commentary because you are an expert in the field. Not politics. That’s just your opinions, and I can get that from every Tom, Dick, and Harry… […]
How To Be Civil With A Political Party That “Wants To Destroy You”
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsBy Michael Sherrard Hillary Clinton has thrown more fuel on an already raging fire. In a recent interview, she stated very plainly that until the left has power again, they cannot be civil. If not for the fact that this advice will be followed by many to extreme ends, I’d just laugh at the extreme […]
Did the Apostles Really Die as Martyrs?
4. Is the NT True?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Mikel Del Rosario Evidence That Demands a Verdict Growing up, I had a lot of questions about the faith. So I went looking for answers. One of the first apologetics books I discovered on my dad’s shelf was Josh McDowell’s classic work, Evidence that Demands a Verdict. My dad even arranged for me to meet […]
Where the Evidence Led Me
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Terrell Clemmons A Review of Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, by Matti Leisola & Jonathan As a student beginning his scientific studies in 1966, Finnish biochemist Matti Leisola used to laugh at Christians who “placed God in the gaps of scientific knowledge,” as the criticism often went. As he saw it, those people […]
A Deeper Understanding Of Christ’s Love Through Suffering
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Luke Nix Introduction How can you helplessly watch as a child dies from agonizing cancer? Doesn’t the love you feel tell you that that suffering is evil and a God who is all loving and all powerful would rescue that child? How can God be all loving and all powerful if He allows such […]
Emotional Doubt and How to Combat It
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Brian Chilton In a recent class at Liberty University, it was noted how 80% of a person’s doubts do not stem from intellectual problems with Christianity, but rather from emotional doubt. Emotional doubt is a problem for every person, but it seems to be a tougher concept for men to combat. The reason is […]
Colossians 2:8 Does Not Condemn Philosophy
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton Some well-meaning but very misinformed Christians discourage the study of philosophy on the basis of a verse in Colossians chapter 2. In Colossians 2:8, the apostle Paul wrote: “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits[a] of the world, […]
What I Learned About Faith While Thinking I Had Cancer This Week
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Natasha Crain A few days ago I felt a rather large, firm lump on my body. My first reaction was, “What on Earth is that?”… followed closely by, “Oh my gosh. This could be it.” Honestly, I started to panic. I know I’m at a higher risk for certain types of cancer and I imagined the worst. […]
“How Would You Respond to This?”
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox Once people discover that you’re a Christian thinker, they often start coming to you with all of the objections they hear: “The Bible is hopelessly corrupt.” “Jesus never existed.” “Science disproves God.” Your friends will offer you the objections and ask, “How would you respond to this?” And here is what I […]
Why the pulpit must be political
Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Michael Sherrard With all that is going on in the world, my church doesn’t need to be entertained. They need to be trained. We are not in a time of peace. While we creatively plan the stage design for our next sermon series, another group is setting the stage for our removal from society. […]
Dealing with the “Who Created God” Objection
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy J. Brian Huffling It never fails. Offer an argument for God’s existence and almost invariably you will hear, “Well, who created God?” With some arguments, this may be a legitimate objection. I have argued elsewhere that philosophical proofs for God’s existence are more powerful than scientific ones. This objection is one instance where I think one […]
Does Modern Science Disprove Miracles?
3. Are Miracles Possible?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Ryan Leasure Back in less civilized times, people believed lightning storms meant the gods were upset with them. An eclipse indicated God was about to bring judgment. Lack of rain meant the people needed to get right with their god. But we’ve moved on from all that right? After all, science explains everything we need […]