Category: Apologetics
-
“You matter because you are more than matter.” Wes Huff Joe Rogan Experience #2252 ✔️Something cannot come from nothing. ✔️ Life cannot come from non-life (biogenesis). ✔️ Consciousness cannot come from unconsciousness. ✔️ Personal cannot come from impersonal. ✔️ Love, communication, and a desire for community cannot come from an impersonal and distant unitarian God.…
-
How do you know you’re getting the truth about a claim (via an advertisement, the news, an author, or a podcaster) unless you examine the claims for yourself? Regarding the prominent assertions made about our beginning, design/purpose, brokenness, and salvation, why wouldn’t we research these — by examining the various major worldviews who claim to…
-
The problem of evil is something every worldview needs to answer. Buddhism blames desire for our suffering and says to work harder (karma is coming). Islam teaches to endure every hardship by working harder, knowing there’s no promise of salvation (judgement is coming). Christianity acknowledges that self-righteousness work cannot save us, but the righteous work…
-
On December 16, 2023, Christian author Reagan Rose wiped every one of his social media accounts. In an age where digital presence is practically required, the move looked bold—maybe even reckless—for someone leading an online ministry such as Redeeming Productivity. Publishers routinely ask for an author’s social media metrics, and those platforms are typically considered…
-
A Biblical Perspective of the Body: Diminishing the soul = Atheism. Diminishing the body = Gnosticism. Deification of the soul = New Age and New Thought. Both body and soul are essential components of our created design = Christianity. Every major worldview provides a unique perspective of what it means to be human. The question…
-
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1📕 “Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that…
-
“The Christian message does not begin with ‘accept Christ as your Savior;’ it begins with ‘in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’”— Nancy Pearcey [1] “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1 📕 “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and…
-
“To him (Jesus), what Scripture says, God says.” John Wenham; Christ and the Bible, p.14 “If God verified Jesus’ message by raising Him from the dead, then perhaps the chief issue concerns whether Jesus taught the inspiration of Scripture.” Dr. Gary Habermas “To him [Jesus], what Scripture says, God says.” John Wenhan; Christ and the…
-
On Friday, the disciples fled. “All his disciples deserted him and ran away.” Mark 14:50 But 3 days later (according to the Jewish Calendar), they were beholding a bodily risen Jesus! “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go,…
-
‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given.’ As Jesus Christ is a child in his human nature, he is born, begotten of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He is as truly-born, as certainly a child, as any other man that ever lived upon the face of the…
-
When we interview for a new job or fill out paperwork for a new home, we need to do more than say, “Just trust me, Bro.” Instead, it’s very reasonable for others to require verification of our identity. We need to show that we are who we say we are. During Jesus’s ministry, it was…
-
Written nearly 500 years before Jesus’ earthly ministry, Daniel described a vision he had of someone “like a son of man” sitting next to the Ancient of Days and coming on the clouds. It was this title, the Son of Man, which Jesus used most frequently for himself! D.A. Carson unpacks Daniel 7:13-14 saying that…
Hold Fast Apologetics 