As Christmas gift exchanges approach, the gift of Jesus is easily obscured. But gifted prophets predicted the birth of the Messiah, and these prophesies, like other Old Testament prophecies, testify to the Divine nature of the Bible. The New Testament contains two different types of prophetic declarations: the prophecies uttered …
Read More »No GQ, the Bible is not Racist, Sexist or Boring
Recently, the editors of GQ (Gentlemen’s Quarterly online) released its list of 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read. They boldly claimed, “…not all the Great Books have aged well. Some are racist and some are sexist, but most are just really, really boring. So we—and a group of un-boring …
Read More »From Reliable to Divine: The Fulfilled New Testament Prophecies of Jesus
If you’re trying to determine whether or not the New Testament is historically reliable, archaeology and ancient non-Biblical records can provide “touch point” corroboration of the Biblical text. We took a similar approach when we examined the evidence corroborating the Old Testament. But these Biblical volumes claim to be much …
Read More »Scientific Consistency in the Bible Is More Important Than Scientific Revelation
As a skeptic, I never personally expected the Biblical prophets (or Jesus Himself) to proclaim scientific truths still inaccessible (and unintelligible) to their audiences. As I read the Bible for the first time, its purpose seemed clear enough: Explain the nature of God, outline the fallen condition of man, and …
Read More »Why Moral Evil Does Not Disprove the Existence of God (Video)
J. Warner Wallace, author of God’s Crime Scene, discusses the nature of evil and free agency. Does the existence of moral evil disprove the existence of God or is evil further evidence of God’s existence? Why would God allow moral evil in the first place? For more on the “problem …
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