Hold Fast Apologetics
What Does Scripture Say?
Category: Apologetics
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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…
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“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…
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“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…
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“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…
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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,…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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“It is necessary that the Son of Man suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, be killed, and be raised the third day.” – Jesus (Luke 9) 📕 “And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The…
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The identity of Isaiah 53’s Suffering Servant has been fervently debated by various scholars and theologians for centuries! Christians assert that proper exegesis of Isaiah 53 points to a person, Jesus of Nazareth, as the Suffering Servant who redeems Israel and the Gentile nations. Whereas others view Isaiah 53 as representing the (corporate) nation of…
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Made popular by Christian Apologist David Wood (dear friend of the late Nabeel Qureshi), the Islamic Dilemma provides a compelling case for the Quran’s deference to the Christian Scriptures as the straightedge for theological matters.
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Jesus, a Jew (monotheistic), accepted worship. Jesus received worship because he was and is more than a mere model of faith — He was and is the author and object of our faith! ✔️Claimed pre-existence before Abraham (John 8), ✔️Claimed the authority to forgive sin (Mark 2), ✔️Claimed that His words were/are equally authoritative as…
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