Paul Harvey’s “If I Were the Devil,” Communism, and Following Jesus

In 1965, Paul Harvey’s essay “If I were the Devil” echoed a communist playbook outlined in Cleon Skousen’s “Naked Communist.” Both called for secularism in schools, the media, and the world. Both advocated pornography and the exploitation of young intellects. Both wanted to destroy the family, the church, and the belief in God. And both …

Alex O’Connor and the Moral Bankruptcy of Atheism

Alex O’Connor is an atheist from the United Kingdom whose ideas have stimulated the minds of thousands of people who have weighed the pros and cons of believing in and worshipping a deity and determined the cons outweigh the pros. Why are Alex O’Connor’s atheist tactics so strong that people may ignore potential eternal darkness? …

How Christianity Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Other Literary Works – by Harry Stark

How Tolkien's Christian worldview influenced his literary works: Lord of the Rings and beyondJ.R.R. Tolkien was a literary genius whose "Lord of the Rings" has captivated millions since its publication in the past century. In this post, we'll peruse through numerous embedded Christian symbols of which you may or may not have been aware. Harry …

Who Wrote the Book of Isaiah? Isaiah’s “Holy One of Israel” Responds

Today's liberal revisionist scholars have posited that the book of Isaiah was authored by numerous unnamed persons over centuries, which stems from their anti-supernatural biases to the prophecies Isaiah made, many of which were fulfilled over a hundred years after he lived. Rather than accept his prophecies of the fall of Assyria, the rise and …

A Little History on a Faulty “Scholarly” Notion: Deutero Isaiah

The faulty notion that the book of Isaiah had multiple authors over centuries (rather than a single author ~700 BC) was first shoveled into Biblical thought by Abraham Ibn Ezra in 1145 AD. Before that, everyone (including numerous people in the New Testament, such as Jesus, John, and Paul) attributed the book to a single …

English Translations of Psalm 22:16, 110:1; Isaiah 53:11, John 3:16, and Acts 8:37

Some English translations of the Bible are superior to others but no one translation is always the best. It seems evident that we may have some wolves in sheep's clothing on the translation committees of some English versions of the Bible, such as the NRSV. In this blog, I make a case for reading multiple …