Something you can't forget about
All things concerning the Bible and Christianity
The foundation of Christianity is the New Testament, yet it is so incredible that it is often accused of being a lie. If I were God I would have made it impossible to think the New Testament was a lie.
To date I have received 2 worth opposing views as comments to my original post. I have elevated them both to their own documents and cross-linked all of them
This is an email exchange between myself and a atheist that I consider a good friend. I had been answering his questions in email form for some time. He gave me the opportunity to reverse the process and ask him something and this is how it went. It was an email exchange that I will try to put in the form of a post and comments.
If you are looking at which religion show the most increase in adherents, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world. To ask why, is very reasonable. It doesn’t really fit into my discussion here, but I like the answer so well I am posting it anyway.
I think the best answer for this was written by Dinesh d’Souza in a book call “What’s So Great About Christianity” and …
This was a very interesting question I had never been presented with before, and at first I found it very perplexing. But after consideration and prayer, it actually lead me to greater faith.
First, we need to clarify that someone can do wrong without necessarily understanding why what they did was wrong. For example, if you tell a child not to throw stones, and they throw a stone, they have …
Again, this question is really answered in the previous two posts, and , but I want to take the opportunity to explain something very important about the Bible.
When you take something from the Bible, you must take it from the context of the entire Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, and try to understand it from the perspective of the true author, which I believe is God, so he …
I appreciate this question greatly because it strikes so personally close to me and my family. I didn’t really want to tackle this here, but it is unavoidable. There are many ways to answer this. I admit I don’t know all the answers and I have chosen different beliefs at different times in my life. I know it will be extremely difficult to keep this short, but I will try.…
First , we need to examine the premise of your question. I would argue that Christianity has caused almost no wars, and killed very few people. Actually, this is relatively true of religions in general. Wars are caused by the greed, for either wealth or power, of individuals and peoples. Sometimes those individuals and peoples try to wrap their greed in the cloak of a religion to disguise it or …
In order to say God is unjust for choosing the Israelites, you would have to first answer the question: Chosen for what? People who are unfamiliar with the Bible make the assumption the Israelites were chosen for preferential treatment, and that is not what the Bible says at all. The Bible clearly says that God chose the Israelites to be a “blessing to all the peoples of the world.” Really, …
I’ve heard this statement so many times, but when pressed for examples, most people can’t come up with concrete contradictions at all, they come up with discrepancies. The difference is that with a contradiction, it is impossible for both statements to be true. With a discrepancy, the statements do not agree, but they could both be true. An example would be in Matthew 20:30 two blind men sought Jesus, but …
I have seen list of Bible contradictions, and for me, the hardest one to clarify is this one. Most of the rest are simple discrepancies and not contradictions at all. The difference is that with a contradiction, it is impossible for both statements to be true. With a discrepancy, the statements do not agree, but they could both be true. This turns out to be a discrepancy, because it is …