What Do You Think?
Reading the accounts in the four Gospels of the Easter Sunday discovery that the tomb of Jesus was empty prompts questions about the reliability of the New Testament, thanks to what appear to be variations or even outright contradictions in the details. Matthew says, for example, that “after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first…
Read MorePaul the Apostle put it bluntly in I Corinthians 15: 12-19 when he said that, if Christ was not really resurrected by God from the dead three days after His crucifixion, then Christians are among all people “the most to be pitied.” Why? Because Christianity depends absolutely for its credibility upon the truth of the…
Read MoreBreaking the law of man is one thing, but breaking the law of God is quite another. The former act makes the person doing it a criminal, with consequences that are temporal. The latter act makes the individual involved a sinner, with consequences that can be eternal. The law provides justice by requiring the criminal…
Read MoreYes, there are people who call themselves Christians who are intolerant of all kinds of things. But don’t confuse them with the biblical faith defined by Jesus Christ, who saves men and women of all races, nations, creeds and ideologies. The truth is that bigotry and intolerance are found among individuals of both genders, who…
Read MoreIf the answer to the question in the headline above is “no,” then there is something God cannot do, which means He isn’t omnipotent and the biblical claim that “all things are possible” with Him is false. But, as cross-examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek explains in the following video in response to a student’s question, there…
Read MoreIf a friend tells you they really do love you and, to prove it, they tell you they deposited $1 million in your bank account, how would you know if you should believe them? You check your bank balance, of course! If the million bucks aren’t there, you know your “friend” is not to be …
Read MoreQuantum Mechanics demonstrates beyond any shadow of doubt that the universe can be explained entirely by the physical properties of matter and how they interact, so there’s no longer any place for God, right? Right??? Not so fast, says Mind Matters’ Eric Holloway. “If human observers are necessary for physical final causality to occur, how…
Read MoreTradition has it that all of the original surviving 11 disciples of Jesus died as martyrs while defending their claims that Christ had been resurrected on the third day after being crucified. Thomas, the skeptical disciple (i.e. the “Doubting Thomas”) who refused to believe the resurrection until Jesus appeared to him and invited him to…
Read MoreJesus told His disciples that He would be coming back to this Earth and when He does “every knee shall bow and … every tongue will confess” that He is Lord. But nobody, not even Him, knows when that will happen? It turns out in scripture that only God the Father knows when God the…
Read MoreConspiracy theories are becoming more common these days in the political debate in Congress, the national media and in public forums across the nation, digital and otherwise. The Watergate coverup by President Richard Nixon and half a dozen of his chief aides was a real conspiracy and it cost him his presidency when he became…
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