Eyewitness Accounts: Many people think the Bible is just like other “holy books,” giving good advice or telling mythological stories. However, upon close examination one will find that the Bible is mainly a historical narrative giving facts about people, places, events and times. It contains one mega-theme that connects its 66 books, written by 40… Continue Reading
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Case-Making 101: Do the Old Testament prophecies point to Jesus?
Do the Old Testament prophecies point to Jesus? The connection between the Old and New Testaments is astonishing. In previous posts we have looked at some of these connections, but nothing is more profound than prophecy and its fulfillment! There are many people who have claimed prophetic abilities over the centuries but they all fall… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Who is Jesus?
This sacrifice Jesus made has to mean something doesn’t it, or did He do it for nothing because many people today would pridefully claim easy access into Heaven, His home, for their own good deeds? All you have to do is be a “good person” they will say. Or, did He do it for those… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Who do you say Jesus is?
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Lee Strobel and A Case for Christ
Lee Strobel’s “The Case For Christ” was one of the first books I read when I was searching for truth about the Christian faith. As a skeptic I had so many questions that Christians I asked could not answer. Most of my questions were about deciphering truth from a faith and a book that seemed so… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: How does finding truth relate to Bible study?
How do we distinguish truth from hearsay or opinion? You know, “THEY SAY…” is how most people preference hearsay and this usually means they don’t have any evidence for the claim they are making. How many of us defer to “THEY” when we don’t want to take time to fact check for ourselves? In today’s… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Why should I practice Christian Apologetics?
What is Christian Apologetics? The word “apologetics” comes from the Greek word “apologia,” pronounced “ap-ol-og-ee’-ah.” It means, “a verbal defense.” It is used eight times in the New Testament: Acts 22:1; 25:16; 1 Corinthians 9:3; 2 Corinthians 10:5-6; Philippians1:7; 2 Timothy 4:16, and 1 Peter 3:15. Apologetics is the Biblical call to all Christians to give a defense of their faith. Apologetics,… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Does the Old Testament really connect to the New Testament?
I have often heard skeptics of the Christian Bible say that the Old and New Testaments have no connection and that the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the God of the New Testament. Most skeptics have never really studied the Bible – I know cause I was one of them.… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: God vs. evolution
The Case for evolution cannot prove its hypothesis that the complexity of life we have today has evolved from a single-cell organism in a primordial soup, and that soup was the foundation by which random chance conditions were able to produce the first building blocks of life (amino acids). The problem with that assumption is that there is… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Why Do Christians Need To Understand and Practice Apologetics?
What is Christian Apologetics? The word “apologetics” comes from the Greek word “apologia,” pronounced “ap-ol-og-ee’-ah.” It means, “a verbal defense.” It is used eight times in the New Testament: Acts 22:1; 25:16; 1 Corinthians 9:3; 2 Corinthians 10:5-6; Philippians1:7; 2 Timothy 4:16, and 1 Peter 3:15. Apologetics is the Biblical call to all Christians to give a defense of their faith. Apologetics,… Continue Reading