Bart Ehrman, in his book, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer, tries to make the case that neither Christians nor the Bible can answer why God, if He were to exist, would allow “the cesspool of misery and suffering” that many people endure. Ehrman says that he […]
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Over the years I’ve talked with many people who have successfully started apologetics ministries in their churches and others who tried but failed. What follows are some suggestions on how to start an apologetics ministry (these suggestions apply to other types of ministry too). First, find a church that you enjoy and whose doctrine you
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I know what many of you are thinking: “The last thing those who are sick need to be told is that it is because of sin!” But, I agree. To do that would be dumb. How would I know if their sickness is the result of some sin they have committed? But it’s not that
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Someone suggested recently that perhaps our apologetics program should change its name to something less confrontational—like “religious studies”—so that it would be more palatable to non-Christians. Upon hearing that, Craig and I rent our garments, threw dust on our heads, and refused to eat until lunch. But seriously, here’s why we like the word “apologetics.”
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I need to begin with two important qualifications. First, Christians are commanded to “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:15) and we are commanded to care for the sick. Compassion must always be our first response to tragedy but, sadly, too often that is not the case. In what follows I’m not writing on how
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I’m going to introduce my wife, Jean E. Jones. Here’s why. One of the things that concerns me today is that so many authors have earned various degrees, and garnered various accolades, and published many books, but, sadly, if you get to know their lives you find that they aren’t ones to imitate (it isn’t
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See my article on Biola’s website regarding the unsung lessons from September 11, 2001: all of us are born in a state of sin and that’s why all fear death (1 Cor. 15:56). Accepting these truths prepares us to receive the good news about Jesus Christ—we can be forgiven, inwardly changed, adopted into God’s family, and inherit eternal
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In 1 Cor. 6:2-3 is an amazing truth: “Do you know not that we will judge the world…. Do you not know that we will judge angels?” Christians will judge the world? Judge Angels? That’s extraordinary! But, why would humans in any sense be qualified to judge others—humans or angels? The answer is simple: those
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Since I teach on why God allows evil, I often talk about Job. I have learned that many Christians have missed a major lesson of that book, if not the major lesson. Although many rightly conclude from Job that we should be humble when it comes to why God allows this or that suffering, there
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So how did the universe, and all the complexity we find in living things, arise? There are only two explanations: God or luck. Now, if the Darwinists are correct, this luck is operated on by natural selection but don’t let that fool you: natural selection is still working upon lucky mutations. For the naturalist luck
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