Tag: Christian Evidences

The New Age Movement combines various components of secular humanism, Eastern mysticism and the occult. One strong emphasis of the New Age Movement is upon the God that is within us, or the Christ within. We must believe in and actualize the spiritual power each of us possesses. Each of us has this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

The problem of presuppositions will be treated in a later chapter, but it is important to note that if one presupposes that miracles do not occur, then even a great deal of evidence to the contrary can be dismissed, since people are not apt to give serious consideration to things that do not fit int...

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...

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...

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...

At the time of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, most scientists were creationists. In 1973, Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford jointly published a book, Darwin and His Critics, containing reprints of sixteen reviews by scientists of Darwin's Origin of Species which came out shortly after i...

Many theologians suggest that whatever truth may be found in the Bible is relative to the world view of the culture in which it was written. According to them, God has accommodated himself to the mistaken notions of the ancient Near East in His communication to us through the Bible. This viewpoint w...

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...

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...