How you think changes everything
Many non-believers tend to think “Christian Dogma” is some kind of vile intolerance that must be eradicated from society. When looked at, however, it is simply truth defined in a culture when it’s popular to believe spiritual truth cannot be defined. Here are 12 points that clarify why Christians are dogmatic: 1) Dogma defined: a principle or […]
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Today is a day when all you have are “Whys?” and your soul feels so heavy within you, it’s as if, in itself, it’s dragging your body around. I got some terrifying news this evening. A very dear friend’s son is having his heart removed tomorrow. It will be replaced with a mechanical one. He’s only […]
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What if, to truly find our identities in Christ, we stop looking inward as much and find ourselves by looking outward? By participating in the greater good, the Body of Christ as a whole, in the bigger picture of God’s narrative, we find ourselves by where we fit in that Body of Christ — how […]
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These questions were asked by Sean McDowell, PhD, Biola, in a friendly group setting with some skeptics recently: 1) SEAN: WHAT BAD IMPRESSIONS DO CHRISTIANS LEAVE? “Hypocrisy. Christians often focus on particular sins such as homosexuality while they are committing other egregious sins in their own lives.” “Christians don’t take their religion seriously. Why don’t they […]
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The idea that you should postpone sex until after your married is hardly practiced among Christian singles today. In a recent study conducted by ChristianMingle.com, Christian singles between the ages of 18 to 59 were asked, “Would you have sex before marriage?” The response? Sixty-three percent of the single Christian respondents indicated yes. Surprisingly, women […]
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Many Christians are quick to tout slogans like “Put God back in our schools!” or “Take prayer out of schools, and problems get huge!” and other similar sayings. But think this through… whose God gets put back into our public schools? Since we live in a pluralistic society, if you put Jesus Christ back into […]
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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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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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(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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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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