GOT HOPE? Christianity Delivers
Skeptics often claim the birth narratives of Jesus are in conflict with one another, noting that Matthew dates Jesus' birth prior to the death of Herod the Great (which some have argued is in 4 B.C.) while Luke's account places Jesus' birth at the time when Quirinius governed Syria in 6 A.D. The intention of …
Based on the desire to share the way, the truth, and the life of Jesus Christ, I will offer refutations for (1) the claim that Jesus is a myth; (2) the claim that the New Testament has been corrupted; (3) the claim that Quirinius took his first census in 6 A.D., (4) the claim that …
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What If We Didn’t Have the Gospels? We have a variety of means by which we can determine the truth of Christianity or any other religious or faith claim. These include whether (1) the person making the claim is sincere; (2) the person has no material incentives for fabrication; (3) the claim has been corroborated …
The intention of this article is to identify the ways in which Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundation Theory is flawed. Prior to doing so, I will offer the premises and conclusion that I will build upon to identify the correct source of our objective moral grounding: God. If humanity has universal, objective moral values and obligations …
Biblical skeptics like to make the argument that “Daniel got the history wrong,” which STRONGLY implies that Daniel tried to dupe us when they assert later dating of his Biblical book. I will present examples from this argument along with refutations. Who is Belshazzar's father? Daniel referred to Belshazzar’s father as Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 5:13) and …
According to some, the “scholarly consensus” on the dating of Daniel is that the book of Daniel was written in the 2nd century B.C. Such a consensus makes me wonder about whether scholarship is controlled by people who are skeptical of the supernatural inferences in Daniel’s prophecies. Accordingly, I will address the literature on this …
Recall the richest king of the Bible: Solomon. He wrote the book of Proverbs, which showed us his great wisdom. He had amassed a fortune, yet he didn’t obey the Lord. He married women of other religions and eventually came to worship their gods. In Ecclesiastes, we see the outcome of his missteps as he …
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Do we have universal and objective moral values and duties to do what's right? If we do, what grounds them? Atheists and agnostics frequently suggest our social development, the heritability of social traits, or utilitarianism offer an explanation of grounding, yet these explanations fail for several reasons. Below I have identified the reasons. Do we …
An interesting and rather embarrassing aspect of the Bible is that its forty or more authors never attempt to shield us from the (sometimes ugly) truth. In fact, the ugly truth is what differentiates the Gospels from the Gnostic texts, which were written much later. In the Gnostic Infancy Gospel of Thomas (140-170 AD), the …
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I sat next to a pastor on a plane around 2012 and he read part of the following passage to me and asked me whom it described. Isaiah 53 was written around 700 B.C. and to me, it quite clearly describes Jesus. In fact, it's one of the most frequently cited passages by the Jews …
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