Tag: Christian Evidences

In the early twentieth century, most scholars dated the New Testament documents as follows: Matthew, A.D. 851Mark, A.D. 60-652Luke, A.D. 80-853John, A.D. 90-954Pauline Epistles, A.D. 48-645For the four Gospels, these were the latest possible dates of authorship; there were excellent reasons for earl...

In a series of studies by Solomon E. Asch (1955),1 it was found that three out of four people tested agreed with a group of people giving false answers on some comparisons of the lengths of lines. In each of these experiments, an unsuspecting subject was put in a room full of three or more people co...

George M. Marsden provided an interesting contrast when he compared a few statements made about the status of Christianity in American culture, two in 1873, and another only about fifty years later. The first statement was made by Theodore Woolsey, the retired president of Yale University: "In what ...

Buddhism was spawned in a Hindu environment, and therefore has some similarities to Hinduism. Just as is the case for Hinduism, there are countless forms and expressions of Buddhism. Many of the same criticisms that are used against Hinduism have been used against Buddhism. "Buddha" is a word which ...

According to the New Testament, nobody can be saved apart from Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12, John 14:6), and those who do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah will die in their sins (John 8:24). What, then, is the eternal destiny of those who have never heard about Jesus, the savior of the world? The te...

Another powerful indication of the existence of God and of the validity of the Christian Scriptures is the vast body of evidence for answered prayer stretching from the time of the early Church until the present day. Whether one reads the biographies of the ancient fathers or the devotional works of...

Many people believe that the data obtained from the radiometric dating of rocks indicates (1) that the earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old, (2) that the ages of the earth's geologic strata have been positively determined, indicating that fossils within these strata are in the sequence one w...

If Satan exists, then we have powerful evidence for the validity of the Scriptural claims concerning supernatural activity. The demonic activity that has taken place in all ages is a testimony to the existence of a powerful spiritual force opposed to God. There are references to Satanic activity in ...

Many people argue against the miracles of the Bible by asking why there have been no miracles since the time the Bible was written. However, there is an abundance of evidence that miracles have been happening throughout the history of the Church. For example, Irenaeus wrote in Against Heresies 5:6:1...

If there is a moral absolute which is recognized by most of the great religions, then does it really matter whether one is Confucian, Taoist, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish, or Christian? Don't all of the great religions point in the same direction? Does it really matter what path we take as long ...

The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is a vast subject. In fact, the Messianic prophecies alone have provided enough material for the publication of many books. Other books have been written solely about the Old Testament prophecies concerning certain cities or about certain world empires,...

The trustworthiness of the Bible's historical statements has been corroborated again and again both through archaeological discoveries and through close correlation of the Bible's content with other independent ancient sources. A comprehensive study of this topic would be far beyond the scope of the...