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The Genealogy of Jesus—A Contradiction?
Six years ago I was at a coffee shop in Farmville, Virginia reading my Bible, when another gentleman came up to me and asked me, “Excuse me, what are you reading?” “Well, I’m reading the sermon on the mount at the moment. How are you doing?” I replied. From that point...
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“Fire Insurance”: What Some Atheists Miss about the Christian Faith
Is the Christian worldview just about escaping hell? While I have only been studying apologetics intensely for the last two years, one of the unfortunate themes I see while viewing Twitter and YouTube is a misrepresentation of Christianity. Namely, YouTube and Twitter...
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The Archaeological Evidence for the Kings in the Old Testament
The Bible offers a fairly concise account of the roughly five-hundred-year history of the Israelite monarchy from the time of Saul through the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. This account can be found in the books of 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, and 1-2...
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The Elephant in Religion’s Room
We live in a “COEXIST” society, meaning that all religions are on par with each other. No one religion has exclusive rights on being right! A year ago I did an interview with a longtime friend of mine named Bill(an alias for the sake of identity)who I respect greatly....
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Jesus and the “Myth of Redemptive Violence.”
In talking about the sacrifice of Jesus (technically known as penal substitutionary atonement), some have objected to the teaching that Jesus had to die to satisfy God’s wrath towards sin. Walter Wink famously called this, “the myth of redemptive violence.”[1]...
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Was Christopher Hitchens Right About God?
The late Christopher Hitchens was fond of saying that God’s kingdom is: a celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea: greedy for uncritical praise from dawn till dusk, and swift to punish the original sins with which it so tenderly gifted us in the very...
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The Bible and the Book of Mormon
One of the most popular religions in the United States and the world is the Mormon religion. Like any religion, Mormon’s have sought to show that the empirical claims of their holy text are true. One way to test the accuracy of any religion is to evaluate the...
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Psalm 16 and the Resurrection of Jesus
The typically conservative and world renown apologist William Lane Craig wrote on his website, “The older view that sees the origin of the disciples’ belief in their searching the Scriptures in the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and finding the idea of a dying and...
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Opinion: The “John 3:16” Tactic Doesn’t Work
Several years ago, a non-Christian friend of mine asked me, “Why do you believe in God?” I answered, “I believe in God because of what the Bible says”. He responded, “So you believe all that stuff about Jesus because of an ancient book?” “Yes I do.” “Well man, if that...
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Who is Saved by the Atonement of Christ?
John 3:16 states that God loved the world so much he sent his one and only Son. But this raises a significant theological question: who is saved? The text says that Jesus is the propitiation “not for us only, but for the sins of the whole world.” There are some...
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