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Practice Truth – 5 Practical Steps

To get good at anything, you’ve got to practice. Even truth has to be practiced! According to 1 John 1:6, we’d be “lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing truth.” (NASB) I John continues by showing us how to practice truth. Here […]

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Was Jesus’ Resurrection Based on Pagan Myths? (Part 3 – final)

A myth cannot explain away the resurrection event of Christ—it is unparalleled in history. This is not a belief rooted in pagan ideas of dying-rising gods, but a belief rooted in a Jewish apocalyptic worldview. Even for the Jews themselves, the idea of their messiah being killed and crucified by His enemies was completely out […]

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Was Jesus’ Resurrection Based on Pagan Myths? (Part II)

(Continued from Part I)  In the late 1980s, Jonathan Z. Smith wrote an article on the “dying-rising gods” in the scholarly and authoritative Encyclopedia of Religion, and showed that the notion that there was a widespread category of gods who died and rose again was not based on a careful reading of ancient sources. “The category of […]

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Was Jesus’ Resurrection Based on Pagan Myths? (Part I)

There is a common thread sewn into the heart of man to want to believe in a hero. Skeptics try to unravel that thread when it comes to belief in the hero of Jesus Christ and his resurrection, claiming it cannot be true because miracles simply don’t happen. It must be based on ancient pagan […]

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What is Pascal’s Wager? 7 Points for Skeptics

Pascal’s Wager is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the 17th Century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). For its time, it was a decent argument. Today, we have much more evidence to believe in the existence of God as a reasonable choice. But for the sake of interest, I’ve listed […]

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