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A loving response to our agnostic would recognize that if God seems like a fairy tale to him, so does Satan. Indeed, a loving response would tenderly search for common ground as a basis for his spiritual quest. Your attitude perfectly illustrates why the unchurched find evangelicals so...

A silly analogy, given that our agnostic would just love to hear a "booming voice" from God! You duck his issue with how he might find God real when he honestly feels like a loving God is no more than a fairy tale--and the unfair suffering in this world seems to decisively confirm that...

LookingForGod, WHAT NOT TO DO: (1) First. recognize that you can't TRY to believe. Built into the concept of trying is the expectation of inevitable failure. This is also true of misguided efforts to have faith that a healing miracle will be received. (2) Recognize that PROOF is the...

Scott Downey; "Jesus had no need to repent, as he was without sin in his life on the earth. Jesus never yielded to the temptations of the flesh or Satan." So you believe Jesus was exempt from the courtesy of notifying his parents as to where he was going? You think they should have just...

Prolific author, Michael Schermer, is perhaps the most notorious and popular atheistic defender of skepticism in America. So I was shocked to hear his testimony on Coast-to-Coast this past week. As a young man, he was converted and became a devout evangelical who offended friends and family...

"A great portent appeared in Heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of 12 stars. she was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth (Rev. 12:3)." Interpretation: An image not of Israel, but of an exalted Mary...

Who likes short hair? Not Samson!

As already noted, that interpretation can be summarily dispatched by the observation that Jesus' identity and status is nowhere discussed in this pericope. Also, you fail to consider that the only reason why Jesus' baptism "fulfills all righteousness" (Matt. 3:14-15) its signification that Jesus...

For the sake of discussion, this thread needs to consider Mark 10:17. Some scholars argue that Jesus clearly distinguishes Himself from God to the rich young ruler and even denies that He is 'good:' ''Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone (Mark 10:17)." Indeed, this...

Fundamentalists are generally unwilling to exam the implications of the implications of Jesus' full humanity. The human Jesus is limited in knowledge (e. g. Mark 13:32), power (Mark 6:5--"He could do not deeds of power there..."), and wisdom (Luke 2:52--"Jesus grew in wisdom..."). Paul sums up...

Early OT texts don't distinguish between the active and permissive will of God. Interpretation should accomodatet this cultural linguistic difference.

As already noted, in Greek predicate nouns are generally anarthous, i. e. without the article (see Blass-Debrunner's Greek grammar #273). But there is a more important Johannine reason for translating "the Word was God." This affirmation forms a literary inclusion with 20:28, where Thomas...

Wrangler, relativity theory and string theory imply the possibility of extra dimensions and parallel universes. So as Christians, we bear the burden of proof for God, not the skeptic. So it's best to avoid the word "proof" in favor of which view makes best sense of all the relevant data.

Behold: "The world, the universe, and time.........all of these didnt just start themselves from NOTHING, by themselves." The question of the origin of the Big Bang does not lead to "proof" of God's existence. You wrongly assume that modern cosmology teaches that everything emerges from...

All arguments for God's existence derive from assumptions, and assumptions are shaped by life experience. Ultimately, then, arguments for God's existence are only as reliable as the experiences and the accurate, arbitrary, and false perceptions that inform them. The concept of "proof" is...

The ultimate test case for this question is the most famous ever Canadian evangelist, Chuck Templeton. Chuck's evangelistic crusades won thousands to Christ. He co-founded Youth for Christ, the most effective youth evangelism organization in the the 1950s and 1960s. His prayers once raised a...

Here's what the evangelical fundamentalists here don't get about Jesus' teaching on Holy Communion. In John 6:53-58 the Gospel shifts its focus from the figurative "bread of life" discourse to the more concrete Holy Eucharist. Jesus now stresses that His "flesh" and "blood" are "real food...

No, an "epistle" is the wife of an "apostle.":)

Nope! Practically any translation but the KJV is preferable! The KJV translates "Sheol" in the OT as "Hell," when in fact "Sheol" means nothing of the sort. In fact, "Hell" is totally absent from the OT.

Desire Of All Nations: "This is a gross reading of scripture. Mar. 6:6 shows what the problem was: the people of Nazareth failed to exercise real faith in Jesus' ability to heal, not because His ability to heal was supposedly limited." Nope! 6:6 says Jesus "could do no" or "was unable to do...