This is the fourth installment in our series on the Gospel authors. We’ve covered Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts. Did the apostle John write the Gospel of John? That would be considerable evidence that the Gospel of John is historically reliable if it was written by an eyewitness who walked and talked with Jesus. This is […]
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The great skeptic David Hume said witnesses should be unbiased if we’re going to consider them credible. So when skeptics look at the New Testament documents, they often ask: How can you say they are reliable when they were written by the converted? These are biased accounts written by biased people. It’s true that the
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This is part 3 in our series “Is Christianity Harmful to Society.” You can read parts 1 and 2, here and here. Has Christianity as a whole done any good for mankind? Has it been more harmful or helpful? I think given what we know about history, Christianity has had a tremendously positive impact on
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This is part 2 in our series “Is Christianity Harmful to Society.” You can read Part 1 here. Some say that religion is the problem with the world. Take the late Christopher Hitchens as one obvious example.1 But could it be that religion is not the actual problem? Take war, for instance. Is Christianity, or
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It has been often said that Christianity is harmful to society. Just look at the Crusades, Inquisitions, witch-burnings, etc. In fact, religion in general is harmful to society, at least according to some people. Atheists have even tried to turn this from a complaint about religion to an argument against Christianity. It basically goes that
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What is naturalism? The basic definition is only nature exists. Or to put it in another way: The space-time universe–which can be studied by the physical sciences–is all the reality there is. The basic argument that naturalists will give is that their worldview is simpler than theism because it requires fewer entities to explain the
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