You’re in a conversation and someone says, “Miracles are impossible. They’re either hoaxes, or just the name that people gave to phenomena before we had scientific explanations for them.” What would you say? Assumptions aren’t arguments. But they often pretend to be arguments. When someone says, that miracles are impossible, they’re not …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “Why would God punish Jesus for what I did? It’s barbaric and abusive for God to require a blood sacrifice from his own son for sins Jesus didn’t even commit. It sounds like ‘cosmic child abuse’.” What would you say? The next time someone says, …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “Jesus was a good teacher, but he wasn’t God.” What would you say? Many people instinctively like Jesus, but they’re not ready to call him God. They want him to be another Moses, Confucius, or Buddha. They want him to be just a wise human …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “there are so many translations of the Bible. Which is the right one?” What would you say? A trip to the bookstore will reveal a number of translations known by an alphabet soup of initials: KJV, ESV, NIV, RSV, or NET. These versions are published …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “The Bible we have now is not the same as what was originally written. It’s been corrupted over time.” What would you say? How has the Bible was passed down? Has it evolved over time? No. The next time someone says, “the Bible we have now is not …
You’re in a conversation and someone asks, “Who chose which books should be in the Bible? And what about the books that were left out?” What would you say? The Bible is a collection of many different writings that were written at different points in history. So how did we get this particular set of …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “The Bible is sexist and is oppressive to women.” What would you say? Many modern-day feminists believe that not only is Christianity outdated in its views of women, but that the Bible is largely to blame for patriarchal oppression. But the next time someone says “the Bible is …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “The idea that Jesus rose from the dead was borrowed from pagan myths.” What would you say? The next time someone says that the idea that Jesus rose from the dead was borrowed from pagan myths, here are 3 things to remember: First, just because some stories are …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “Who wrote the Bible?” What would you say? The Bible is the best-selling book in human history, but a lot of people don’t really know much about it. So, it’s not surprising that people wonder, where did this book come from? Why was it written? And, who wrote …
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “If God is so good, how could he command genocide in the Old Testament?” What would you say? In Old Testament passages such as Deuteronomy 7, God commands the Israelites not only to drive out the people who lived in the land of Canaan, known as the Canaanites, …
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