What is the Unborn?
By Clinton Wilcox
Before you can even answer the question of whether or not abortion is moral, you must first decide what the unborn is. For as Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason observes, if the ...
How to Leverage Moral Outrage for the Gospel
By Michael C Sherrard
It is good to acknowledge the appropriateness of ones anger in the midst of evil and pain. It is right to be angry over injustice. It is right to be sick at crimes against ...
Why Is There Even A Jesus Myth Theory?
By Stephen Bedard
I have spent much of my apologetics activity responding to the Jesus myth theory. My first book (co-authored with Stanley Porter) Unmasking the Pagan Christ and my first ...
8 Major Worldviews (Part 2)
By Bryan Chilton
In our last article, we presented the first four of the eight major worldviews. As we noted, this is a revision to a previous article that only listed six. The first article in ...
8 Major Worldviews (Part 1)
By: Brian Chilton
Before the website transferred from pastorbrianchilton.wordpress.com to bellatorchristi.com, I had written an article on the major worldviews across the globe. I presented six ...
The Wisdom Chronicle
The Wisdom Chronicle is designed to bring nuggets of wisdom from the dozens of books I read every year. I endeavor to share the best of what I have gleaned. The determination of relevance lies ...
Book Review: The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl
By Timothy Fox
I’ve waited for this book for a long time. I’ve been listening to Greg Koukl – one of my personal apologetics heroes – on the Stand to Reason podcast for years and he would ...
Necessary Existence of God
By Prayson Daniel
Judeo-Christians understand God as a being that is perfect in knowledge (Ps. 147:5), power (Job 42:2), presence (Ps. 139), acts (Ps. 18:30) and has none greater (Heb. 6:13) ...
One Fewer God?
By Derrick Stokes
There’s a popular quote by atheist Steven F. Roberts that many nonbelievers cite or paraphrase when debating Christians that says, “I contend we are both atheists. I just ...
Can Science Answer All Questions?
By Paul Rezkalla
In the movie Contact? Ellie told her father that she loved him, but she couldn’t prove it scientifically. That’s because science can’t do that sort of thing. Science can’t show ...
5 Attitude Changes That Will Transform Your Christian Parenting in the New Year
By Natasha Crain
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to write a post because my nose has been buried in writing my new book (if you’re new to the blog or missed what I’m working on, you ...
How do I explain abortion to my children?
By Michael C. Sherrard
These kinds of questions keep you awake at night. Knowing how and when to talk to your children about sensitive issues isn't an exact science. But we better figure it out ...
Did Messianic prophecy inspire the Christmas story?
By Tim McGrew
One of the favorite targets of destructive biblical criticism is the narrative of Jesus’ birth in the first two chapters of Matthew. One distinctive feature of Matthew’s account ...
A Logical Christmas Message
By Tim Stratton
John 1:1-14 states “In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, ...
Jesus’ Birth: How undesigned coincidences give evidence for the truth of the Gospel accounts
By J.W. Wartick
There are many charges raised against the historicity of the birth narratives of Jesus Christ. These run the gamut from objections based upon alleged contradictions to ...
5 Apologetics Questions Every Christian Should Learn How to Answer: Christmas Edition
By Alisa Childers
In a previous post, I offered quick answers to 5 apologetics questions that I think every Christian should be familiar with. With many misconceptions and misunderstandings ...
The Case for the Pre-Existence of Christ: The Birthday that was Not the Beginning
By Brian Chilton
Recently, we celebrated my wife’s birthday. As we reach a certain age, we remember the date, but the year begins to become foggy (intentionally, of course). When one celebrates ...
Incoherent Questions
By Tim Stratton
It has been said that there is no such thing as a stupid question. Consider the following: How much does the color purple weigh? Can God create something that is not ...
The Cross and the Falsification of Islam
By Samuel Inbaraja
Sura 4:156-159 states:
“Allah set a seal upon them owing to their unbelief, so they shall not believe except a few. And for their unbelief and for their having uttered ...
Essential DNA Required for Life
By Philip Carlson
If one believes in evolution, it is important to know what is required for life. Not just what environmental conditions are needed, but also what biochemical ...