A brief video exploring the self identity of Jesus and His claim to be God.
Category: apologetics
Wanting Christianity Without Christ
When we live in our own cultural setting, with little real exposure to other cultures, it is easy to miss how we got to where we are. When we live in our own microcosm of time and ignore the centuries it took to get to this moment, it is inevitable that we will have blinders …
The Sanity of Belief: Why Faith Makes Sense
By Simon Edwards Lately, I have been spending a vast amount of time on the subject of apologetics. If you don't know what apologetics is, don't feel bad. It's one of those almost insider words that theology nerds throw around. However, it is a terribly important subject. It comes from the Greek word, Apologia, which …
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Why Rob Bell is Right
Recently Rob Bell was quoted as saying some rather provocative things about the church, homosexuality, gay marriage, and the irrelevancy of the Bible. As has been the case for the last few years, whenever Bell speaks there is a minor firestorm that erupts. One of the unfortunate aspects of the firestorm is at some important …
Christianity and Science: Is There a Conflict?
As a kid I was enthralled with science, any branch of science, astronomy, biology, chemistry, paleontology, physics, anatomy, it didn't matter. Until the fifth grade I lived in a house that backed up to a huge woods that included a spring fed pond where my best friend Bobby Kramer and I used to catch salamanders, …
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Lessons from an Atheist: The Death of Christopher Hitchens
He is perhaps to most well-known atheist of the past two decades. He became infamous for his attacks on religion and religious figures seeing all religion as dangerous and destructive. It didn't matter to him if you were an Islamic suicide bomber or Mother Theresa, who he accused of being an ambitious self promoter who …
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