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Who is Jesus' God? The heavenly Father. How does Jesus rate compared to the Father? "The Father is greater than I (John 14:28)." So who then is Jesus? The Son of God in the sense of a Messiah descended from David: "I will establish the throne of His [David's] kingdom forever. I will be his...

(1) Robert Pate overlooks the fact that John excludes the words of Institution of Holy Communion in his chapter on the Last Supper (John 13) precisely because he prefers to include Jesus' words on the subject in 6:53-58. Jesus teaches that He becomes uniquely present to those who eat His body...

If you asked your agnostic friend, "What might it take to motivate you to launch a burning quest to discover the truth about Christianity?" which of these options might best represent his response? (1) I would need to increasingly feel that my current secular worldview is inadequate for a...

Atheists like Howard Storm have been converted through NDEs. Muslims never see Muhammad and one non-Christian Jewish woman saw Jesus during her NDE.

I believe in and celebrate Jesus' resurrection. But the evidence for NDEs is far superior to the evidence for Jesus' resurrection and, in fact, makes that Gospel evidence more credible. For that reason, internet NDE discussions can be an effective tool for Christian apologetics. Great harm to...

You don't know what you're talking about. Atheist Howard Storm was converted bv His encounter with Jesus during his NDE. y

What would it take to get your agnostic friend to join this site and start a thread airing all his probing questions? Then I could engage him in a thread on SDEs, shared death experiences, i. e., experiences where family members of the dying are pulled out of their bodies to travel to reunions...

In my experience the biggest reason why intelligent agnostics reject the faith is not their perception of inadequate evidence for God's existence, but rather their perception that Christianity does not deliver what it promises. From their observation, there is scant evidence that prayers get...

Other than prayer, the only hope is the right what if game. What would it take to ignite a burning spiritual quest in your friend? Ask your agnostic friend questions like these: (1) What if you could be convinced by the paranormal evidence of NDEs that they contain authentic contact with life...

You just need to to read some academic Bible commentaries. All NT scholars agree that Romans 6:1-6 expresses Paul's theology of physical baptism. Titus: "Those who claim this HS baptism is for all believers are too careless in their meditation on the scriptures. Really, they probably dont...

Chapter and verse in Acts? You forgot the Ephesian speaking in tongues (19:1-6) and thus miss the 4-fold pattern discussed abov

In 3 of the 4 descriptions in Acts of receiving the Spirit, the initial evidence includes speaking in tongues. In the 4th case (Samaria) speaking tongues is not mentioned, but ecstatic speech seems implied by the fact that Simon the Magician is so impressed by this manifestation of the Spirit...

Most faith healers of dubious character start off mightily used of God. but then they succumb to the need to put on a good show. He deliberately distorted what the note my Dad wrote about my condition said to create the illusion that a blind little boy had just been given his sight, and the...

If God can't or won't do it now, the most reasonable inference is that God couldn't or wouldn't do it back then. The major reason for the rejection of Christianity by modern informed skeptics is not that there is inadequate evidence for God's existence but that the Bible's promises just don't...

(16) One night 2 years ago, I felt an impulse to do something I would never otherwise do--walk a couple of blocks down 2nd Street and back. When I arrived at the intersection of 2nd and Main St., I ran into Clint, a new Christian I knew. Clint was extremely distraught. He had just found his...

JLG: "First, when we read mark 2:5, Jesus speaks about their faith! - And above all, Jesus cures the paralytic! - Definitely, not offensive!" Thus, you endorse the old Marxist principle that the end justifies the means. Notice how JLG ducks the obvious reply, "Why doesn't Jesus just politely...

Thank God that all the listed verses are omitted in modern translations. I am appalled by the fact that fundamentalists who have the "highest' view of biblical inspiration are the least invested in the complex task of sorting through the 400,000 Greek variant readings to establish the original...

Well, Matthew evidently finds this incident offensive, and so, he omits it from his account of the healing of the paralytic.

Still a lot of hassle and expense to repair it! Just sayin.'

Stymied by the crowd at Jesus' feet, friends create a huge whole in the roof to lower toe paralytic to Jesus' feet. Jesus' praiuses their faith. But what about the homeowner's complaint, "Hey, whose gonna pay for the damage to my roof?" I'm looking for Jesus' response, but it's not recorded...