Will You Dare to Follow Christ?
Joshua 24:15 “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve…But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” As a child, I read Choose Your Own Adventure books. If you read them too, you will remember that, at crucial points in the story, the books gave the reader a choice concerning how the hero or heroine will respond. How […]
Is Science the Ultimate Source of Truth?
Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) described theology as “the queen of the sciences.” In his day, all scientific study was subordinated to the theologian’s higher research into the nature of God. The temporal natural world was of a lower order than the eternal and supernatural. Theology was queen because it sought to discover ultimate truth. […]
Was Jesus a Liar, a Lunatic, or Lord?
Premise A: Jesus claimed to be God Premise B: Jesus is either a liar, a lunatic, or He is what He claimed to be: God Premise C: Jesus is not a liar or a lunatic Conclusion: Therefore, Jesus is God Jesus is either bad, mad, or God. C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, proposes the liar, […]
Did Jesus Really Exist?
Premise A: If Jesus existed, there would be historical records to support this. Premise B: The Gospels and other historical records of Jesus life exist. Conclusion: Therefore, Jesus existed. Was Jesus a real person? Did He really live in Israel approximately two thousand years ago? How do we know what Jesus really said and did? […]
What is the Problem with Evolution?
What is simpler: Creation or Evolution? Premise A: Something cannot come from nothing. Premise B: There is something. Premise C: These somethings are systematic, complex, and finely tuned. Conclusion: Therefore, there must have been Something capable of designing the complex systems apparent in the universe and biological life. This Something we call God According to […]
Bacteria Proves that God Exists
In Darwin’s Black Box, Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, proposed bacterial flagellum as examples of irreducible complexity. This complexity of bacterial flagellum works like a spring-loaded mouse trap. A mouse trap consists of a rectangular board, a trigger, a spring, and a bar. When the mouse moves the bait, […]
The Human Eye Proves God Exists
The eye is amazingly complex with many interworking parts. There are three layers of tissue in the eye. The outer layer is called the sclera. This layer gives the eyeball its white color. The middle layer is the choroid. It contains blood vessels that supply oxygen to the retina. The retina is the innermost layer. […]
What is a Christian World View?
What does the world look like to a Christian? Here are my assumptions, my presuppositions, (the lenses through which I see the world, if you will): 1. I believe there is a God. This first great assumption comes from my observations of nature and myself. Because there is order in the universe, something must […]
What is Apologetics?
The word apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia, meaning “to give a reasoned response,” and it is used seven times in the New Testament (Acts 22:1, 25:16; 1 Cor. 9:3; Phil. 1:7,16; 2 Tim. 4:16; 1 Pet. 3:15). The purpose of Christian apologetics is to rationally examine the beliefs of Christianity in order to […]