Tag: Christian Evidences

The Scopes Trial of 1925 has made an almost indelible impression upon the consciousness of modern Americans as an indication of the hopelessly anti-intellectual, obscurantist, and bigoted nature of "Fundamentalism," or the literal belief in the Bible. However, the image that most of us have of the t...

The determination of the Canon of the New Testament was not the result of any pronouncement, either by an official of the Church or by an ecclesiastical body. Rather, the Canon was determined by the use of these books throughout all of the Churches during the first and second centuries. The establis...

The developments of the early twentieth century were actually the result of a long process of secularization that has been taking place in Western civilization since the seventeenth century. Of course, there have been infidels in all ages of history, but the focus here is upon the state of the cultu...

Many people feel that the account given in the Bible of Jonah is legendary, since even if there were a fish big enough to swallow a man, certainly no man would be able to survive three days in its digestive tract and then escape to the outside world. However, again and again, Jesus referred to this ...

It is evident from the foregoing that the period of the Enlightenment was the crucial step in the waning of civilization. This was as true in the area of morals as it was in the intellectual arena. Francis Asbury related that the spiritual climate at that time in England was "a very dark, dark, dark...

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 ...

Throughout all of history, God has destroyed the wicked and granted mercy to a remnant of people who have sought to please Him in their thoughts and actions. Nowhere is this principle more evident than in the Biblical account of Noah's flood. When the Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind was grea...

As Christians, we are enjoined in I Peter 3:15 to sanctify Christ as Lord in our hearts, always being ready to make a defense to every one who asks us to give an account for the hope that is in us, yet with gentleness and reverence. The word "apologetics" is taken from the Greek word , translated "d...

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 ...

Twentieth-century philosophers usually consider David Hume's essay, "Of Miracles," to have dealt the decisive death-blow to any belief either in the supernatural or in the miracles of the Bible. This essay appears as the tenth section of Hume's treatise, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, or...

Until the nineteenth century, as we have seen, geologists were aware of a great deal of evidence for a universal flood at the time of Noah. For example, Benjamin Silliman, head of the geology department of Yale University wrote in his Geological Lectures (1829): Respecting the Deluge, there can be ...

In II Timothy 3:16, it is stated that "all Scripture is inspired by God." The Greek word , translated here "inspired by God," literally means "God-breathed." That is, the Scriptures are a product of the creative activity of the divine breath. As Alan Stibbs has observed, this "indicates that Scriptu...