Showing posts with label early church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label early church. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Apologetics is Foundational to the Christian Faith

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Apologetics is the discipline of thoughtfully and carefully defending the Christian faith. It is not only a calling in the Bible, but a ...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

How Did the Early Christians Influence Their Culture?

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Christians are wondering how to deal with the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling forcing all fifty states to recognize homosexual un...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Who Wrote the Gospels – Evidence for John

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Who wrote the Gospel of John? While our modern Bibles attach John's name to the beginning of the Gospel, John (just like the other gos...
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Friday, February 13, 2015

Who Wrote the Gospels – Testimony from the Church Fathers

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In my interactions with skeptics, I've noticed a recurring trend. They take a certain pride being both skeptical and reasonable. They ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Were Early Christians Encouraged to Become Martyrs?

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A few weeks ago, I had responded to a meme ( here and here ) posted by atheist Michael Sherlock that claimed, "Christianity did n...
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Thursday, May 01, 2014

The HANDS Argument for the Deity of Jesus

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Is Jesus God? That is one of the most popularly searched questions about Jesus on Google. People can get confused by the idea of God bei...
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Saturday, November 02, 2013

How Heresies Tried to Change Scripture

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Were books left out of the Bible? What are heresies against scripture? How did the early church determine which writings should be recog...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

Christian Martyrdom and Tertullian

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Several news sources are reporting on the increased persecution of Christian house churches in China. When China fell to the communists in ...
Friday, March 02, 2012

Top Ten Neglected Books for Apologists - #6 The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

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Of all the books on this list, certainly the one that most qualifies as a "sleeper" in terms of notoriety is Robert L. Wilken'...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

A (Not Too) Serious Christian History Quiz

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October 31 is both Reformation Day and All Soul's Eve, a very historic time for Christendom.  The modern church, though, seems to have ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

What a New Testament Church REALLY Looks Like

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I’ve listened to many pastors and church leaders talk about how they model their church after the early Christian churches.  They want “a ch...
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