Tag: Christian Evidences

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Christian Origin of Science becomes quite clear when we study the history of science, and we see that until very recently, scientists interpreted the data in light of the Bible. Until the time of Darwin, biologists were creationists, and until the time of Charles Leyell, geological data were int...

According to Islamic teaching, Muhammed was the last of many prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, and Jesus. Muhammed was born in A.D. 571 at Mecca in Arabia. His father died a few days after he was born, and his mother died when he was six years old. His grandfather then cared for hi...

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...

The rise of rationalism and empiricism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a result of an abhorrence of "superstition." The magical, the mystical, and the miraculous were all categorized as superstition, and the scientific method was born, according to which only that which is observable...

As we have seen, many critics of the authenticity of documents included within the Old and New Testaments base their contentions upon principles of literary criticism. The use of modern higher Biblical criticism, employing the methods of literary criticism in establishing date and authorship of cano...

Miracles became so commonplace in the late twentieth century that the antisupernaturalistic world view that was predominant for most of that century eventually gave way to a less dogmatic consensus on this question among many scholars. A large proportion of these phenomena took place either in third...

The story of the Pitcairn Bible is a testimony both to the providence of God and to the value of the Bible in saving society from chaos. Ginny Hastings has written of it, "with no law to guide them, the mutineers of the Bounty turned an island paradise into a living hell of sexual abuse, drunkenness...