Tag: apologetics
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Why Should I Believe in Jesus?
Many people expect the answer to be: because the evidence is strong, because Christianity makes sense, because the Church says so, or because faith will improve your life. But none of these things give faith. The Bible gives a deeper answer, with two parts. It says you should believe in Jesus because God tells you…
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When God Commanded Genocide: 2 Jesus Died for Every Amalekite
God commanded ancient Israel to commit genocide. You and I are rightly troubled by that. In our first post, we looked squarely at the most clear and difficult passage in the whole Bible on this, 1 Samuel 15:1-3, where God commands Saul to slaughter the Amalekites: every “man and woman, child and infant, ox and…
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Spoken, Not Seen: 6-Day Creation
My atheist friends often present Genesis 1 as the ultimate proof text that God doesn’t exist. It goes like this: 1) The Bible says God created the universe in 6 days, 6,000 years ago.2) We clearly observe with our eyes that the universe appears much older than this.3) Therefore the Bible must be wrong, and…