Hold Fast Apologetics

  • Early Christian and Non-Christian Attestations about Jesus Outside of the Bible

    Early Christian and Non-Christian Attestations about Jesus Outside of the Bible

    “Even if you silenced the voices of the New Testament authors, you would still have a robust description of Jesus and his followers from ancient, hostile non-Christian voices in the fallout…There are more non-Christian voices in this extrabiblical collection (ninety-two historical figures) than Christian ones, and regardless of their social…

  • Non-Christian Attestations About Jesus’s Existence Outside of the Bible

    “Even if you silenced the voices of the New Testament authors, you would still have a robust description of Jesus and his followers from ancient, hostile non-Christian voices in the fallout…There are more non-Christian voices in this extrabiblical collection (ninety-two historical figures) than Christian ones (figure-one), and regardless of their…

  • Jesus is God: Proclaimed Early (Not Late)

    Jesus is God: Proclaimed Early (Not Late)

    “And behold, Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’ And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.” Matthew 28:9 Any theology which proposes that Jesus’s claim to be God was a later development of the Church (invented by the Disciples) is not only dismissing the veracity…

  • Is Rohr Correct about Propitiation?

    Is Rohr Correct about Propitiation?

    Per his own words, Richard Rohr promotes the view that penal subustitutionary atonement is merely a “theory.” Rohr claims that “the early church had never heard” of penal substitutionary atonement. [1] Is Rohr accurate when he advocates that the early church did not view Jesus’s crucifixion as atonement for sin?…

  • Image of God

    Design points to a Designer. As humans, our design demonstrates that a good and personal Designer exists (Romans 1). Our ability to communicate and to reason, our desire to steward and lead, our longing for relationship and intimacy (love), as well as our understanding that “right and wrong” is not…

  • Dr. Norman Geisler’s 12 Points

    “12 Points That Show Christianity is True” by Dr. Norman Geisler: 📙For a bookmark of these points, click here.

  • We Are Not the Painter

    “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” Psalm 19:1 (King David;~1010 BC)📕 When we gaze upon a beautiful sunrise, a newborn baby, a painting, and/or consider the finely engineered design of our DNA, it’s more than reasonable to conclude that these intricate “somethings”…

  • Why Hell?

    Friends, we wouldn’t go to Hell because we don’t choose Jesus. We go to Hell because we are sinners. Sin separates us from a Holy God. And since God is good (Mk 12), God is perfectly just. We would deserve Hell. In The Story of Reality by Greg Koukl, Koukl…

  • The Gospel According to Mark: Jesus is God

    “Why does this man speak like that? He (Jesus) is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” Mark 2:7📕 Mark is thought by numerous scholars to be the earliest of the four gospel accounts recorded with “internal and external data pointing to Rome as the place of composition around…

  • Inspirational or Inspired

    What seems inspirational may not necessarily be “inspired.” Through the trials I’ve encountered in life, God has helped me to understand that I 💯need His help to discern what is actually “good” and “right.” For my opinions of what seems helpful could be misleading and possibly, short-sighted. For example, if…