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.
Can We Impose Our Preferences On The External World?
1. Does Truth Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Arthur Khachatryan We are subjective creatures. We have a consciousness that provides us with an internal reality, one we experience within of our inner self. We have private preferences, opinions, fears, and biases, which are very real in our thoughts and reflect in our actions. This internal reality is immediate and cannot be overthrown, at […]
The Canon Conspiracy
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Timothy Fox I’ve always been intrigued by conspiracy theories. New World Order, Illuminati, stuff like that. Christianity has its own share of conspiracy theories, like the existence of “lost” gospels suppressed by the Church. However, we all must wonder why the Bible contains the books that it does. What if there really are texts […]
Reference Guide to Biblical Numerology
CrossExaminedBy Brian G. Chilton Early Apostolic Church Fathers (100-451 AD) recognized that Scripture had four layers of interpretation. They used a method called quadriga which held the following layers: 1) Literal (sensus historicus), 2) Allegorical (sensus allegoricus—texts hold symbolic meaning), 3) Tropical/moral (sensus tropologicus or sensus moralis—broader moral lessons), and 4) Anagogical (sensus anagogicus—mystical, metaphorical sense). Often numbers are […]
If Evolution Were True, What Would Happen To Adam And Eve?
CrossExamined, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton If evolution were true, what would we Christians do about the Bible’s teachings on Adam and Eve, their relationship with sin’s entrance into the world, and the doctrine of original sin? As I’ve argued in several blog posts on this website, I believe Christianity and Evolution are compatible, and many of the […]
Why Can’t God Just Forgive Us?
Islam, Jesus Christ, Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Evan Minton Some non-Christians, mainly Muslims, ask why Jesus had to die on the cross in order for us to be saved. “Why does God need a blood sacrifice?” They’ll ask, “Why can’t He simply just forgive us?” This objection was recently posed to me in the comment section in another article in this […]
Why Should Christians Care About Logic?
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Andrew Cabrera I was at a Christmas party a few years ago and someone walked up to me and began talking to me about my views on God. At one point in the conversation he asked the age-old question, “Can God make a rock so heavy that he himself can’t lift it?” Among other […]
Why Evil Disproves Atheism
Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsHow can a good God exist when there is so much evil in the world? Many people doubt the existence of God because of the existence of evil. But evil doesn’t disprove God—evil disproves atheism! How so? Evil can’t exist on its own, it only exists as a parasite in good. Evil is like rust […]
What Happens to Our Souls When We Die?
CrossExamined, Theology and Christian ApologeticsThere are many good reasons to believe we, as humans, are more than simply physical bodies. Humans are “soulish” creatures; we are living souls united to physical bodies. Even without the guidance of Scripture, there are good reasons to believe our lives will not end at the point of our physical death. The existence of […]
Yes, Women Need Apologetics, But More Importantly, Apologetics Needs Women
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Hillary Morgan Ferrer 1 Peter 3:15 says that we are to give a ready defense for anyone who asks for the hope that is within. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says that we are to “demolish arguments that set themselves up against the knowledge of God.” Now with words like “defense” and “demolish,” it is not surprising […]
Christianity Is Based in Truth, Not Superstition
Theology and Christian ApologeticsBy Al Serrato My last post dealt with the belief, common among skeptics, that Christianity is simply a form of superstition. Modern “science-minded” people reject superstitions, and so religious belief holds no interest for them. Historic Christian doctrine is in fact much different, however; while some who claim to be Christian may indeed be superstitious, […]
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 […]