Tag: Christian Evidences

As we have already seen, if we reject the claim of the Bible to historical accuracy, then we are beset with an imposing set of difficulties arising from the interpenetration of Biblical history with secular history, both in the past and in the present. History does not take place in a vacuum. The Bi...

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...

When the apostle Paul spoke to the ancient Greek philosophers at the Areopagus in Athens he made reference to an altar which had on it an inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Paul said that he was making this God known to them. The altar engraved with this inscription had a history behind it, of which bot...

How are we to evaluate the secular humanism which is quickly bringing about the death of our culture? One of the tenets of secular humanism is that Christian believers are credulous and sentimental, and that one must be a materialist, a scientist, and a humanist to have a skeptical mind. Yet the ver...

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 ...

One of the evidences for the historicity of the long day recorded in Joshua 10:13 and reiterated in Habakkuk 3:11 lies in the large body of traditions from many parts of the world according to which there was a long day (or night, or evening, depending upon the location) at about the same time that ...

C. S. Lewis has written that, "when you turn from the New Testament to modern scholars, remember that you go among them as a sheep among wolves. Naturalistic assumptions, beggings of the question . . . will meet you on every side--even from the pens of clergymen. . . . In using the books of such peo...

Twentieth-century western democracy and communism were, in a sense, two sides of the same coin. In both, there was an unquestioning acceptance of the atheistic anthropocentric views of the Enlightenment, and these views were carried through to their logical conclusions. On both sides of the iron cur...

B. B. Warfield has observed that "the church has always believed her Scriptures to be the book of God, of which God was in such a sense the author that every one of its affirmations of whatever kind is to be esteemed as the utterance of God, of infallible truth and authority."1 Although Warfield's o...

Some people attempt to distinguish between factual and religious truth in the Bible. For many of them, religious matters, or matters of "faith and practice," are considered infallible, while other matters are subject to error. However, this approach is inconsistent with that taken by the Scriptures ...

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 ...

Christian evidences refer to the various arguments, facts, and historical data that support the truth claims of Christianity. These evidences are used by Christians to demonstrate the validity of their faith and to defend it against skeptics and critics. One of the most important pieces of evidence ...