Judas was one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus, always listed at the end and forever remembered as the traitor. We don’t know very much of how or when Jesus chose Judas to be in His inner circle, but we do know how it all ended. Judas expressed remorse, threw the thirty pieces of …
8 Questions Atheists Cannot Plausibly Answer
Below I have presented eight questions that I do not believe that atheists will be able to plausibly answer. 1. What explains our objective morality? If we have no God, then we have no objective and transcendent moral values and duties. Yet we do have objective moral standards and duties to do what’s right. Therefore, …
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Evidence for Jesus’ Divinity from Peter, James and Paul
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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Evidence for Early Christian Persecution: Reasons to Believe
“The great difficulty is to get audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity simply because you happen to think it true.” – CS Lewis In a conversation I had with philosophy professor Tim McGrew, he asked me which place I thought starting a new religion would be successful: Mecca (Saudi Arabia) or Milwaukee, Wisconsin. …
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The Apostle Paul Supplied Ample Evidence of Jesus’ Divinity
C.S. Lewis famously called on us to make a choice: either Jesus is a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord. Given Jesus’ miracles, forgiveness of sins, and claims of divinity, Lewis concluded that labeling Him a mere prophet is woefully inadequate so we must face the trilemma. Skeptics often suggest C.S. Lewis omitted a fourth …
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