Tag: Christian Evidences

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...

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 accuracy of the present-day Hebrew version of the Old Testament is a result of the fastidious care with which the Sopherim and the Masoretes transmitted it. The Sopherim copied manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures from about 300 B.C. until A.D. 500. According to the Talmud, they came to be calle...

Of course, Jesus is not the only one who attests to His divinity. All of the Scriptures attest to it. In fact, the Hebrew prophets expected the Messiah to be God. Isaiah 9:6 says: For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be cal...

If the theory of evolution is correct, then death did not come by Adam as Paul states in his epistles; rather, death is the mechanism by which man has evolved. The theory of natural selection is dependent upon the assumption that there was death in the world before the appearance of man and that dea...

Josephus (A.D. 37-c.100) stated that, in the country called Carroe, there were "in it the remains of the ark, wherein it is related that Noah escaped the deluge, and where they are still shown to such as are desirous to see them."1 Elsewhere, Josephus wrote: However, the Armenians call this place ,...

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...

See excerpts from Richard M. Riss, A Survey of 20th-Century Revival Movements in North America (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988), as follows: Introduction: pp. 1-7Early Awakenings: pp. 7-11The Great Awakening: pp. 11-12The Second Evangelical Awakening and other 19th Century revivals: p...

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...

In a previous chapter, "Why The Bible Cannot Be Legend," it was shown that because everything that happens has both consequences and a definite context, it is possible to determine whether or not a given historical account is trustworthy. This is especially clear in the historical accounts of the li...

There are many important old manuscripts of the Old Testament. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most ancient of these was the Cairo Codex, containing the former and latter prophets, copied in A.D. 895 by Moses Ben Asher, a leader of the Masoretes, in Tiberias, Palestine. One o...

In seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe, a great deal of emphasis began to be placed upon reason as the primary criterion to be used in the determination of truth. Prior to this time, revelation, as given to us in the Scriptures, was considered to be the means by which truth was determined. Esp...