Category: Answering Atheism

by Avery Foley and Troy Lacey
October 3, 2014

Christians frequently run into the argument that “The Bible can’t be trusted because it has miracles, and they are clearly not possible because science doesn’t accept the miraculous.” How should believers respond?

by Don Batten

This question is a major objection that atheists put forward to justify their disbelief.

by Blue Letter Bible

When we speak of God’s attributes, we are talking about those characteristics that helps us to understand who He truly is. That which follows is a thorough, yet incomplete list and summary of His attributes.

by Matt Perman
January 23, 2006   

The doctrine of the Trinity is foundational to the Christian faith. It is crucial for properly understanding what God is like, how He relates to us, and how we should relate to Him. But it also raises many difficult questions. How can God be both one and three? Is the Trinity a contradiction? If Jesus is God, why do the Gospels record instances where He prayed to God?

by Robin Schumacher
edited by Matt Slick

Non-Christians sometimes assert that God is portrayed in the Old Testament as a cruel and ruthless deity that indiscriminately orders the execution of seemingly innocent men, women, and children, or directly carries out their deaths by various means. Such a God, the argument goes, in no way represents the loving Creator or Father figure that the New Testament offers and should in no way be worshipped or venerated.

by Peter Saunders – Christian Medical Fellowship
1997

As doctors we are exposed to suffering in a unique way. For us, it is not something that just happens on a television screen to people we neither know nor meet. We grapple with it in our patients each day. Unless we want to insulate ourselves by becoming cynical and detached, we need to learn to cope with it and understand it. Suffering asks deep questions of us as Christians – not least ‘Why does it exist at all?’

by Hebrew4Christians

Jesus Christ is God (YHVH) in the flesh. Indeed, to say Jesus Christ is Lord, is to confess Him as God.  According to the New Testament, salvation is experienced only by changing your mind and personally trusting that Jesus was executed as atonement for your sins, that He was physically pronounced dead and buried, and that He was raised from the dead in vindication of His glory and to function as our High Priest in heaven. There is no other Mediator before the Father and no other Name given to mankind for salvation.

by CBN.com

Mathematically speaking, the odds of anyone fulfilling this amount of prophecy are staggering. Mathematicians put it this way:

1 person fulfilling 8 prophecies: 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 1 person fulfilling 48 prophecies: 1 chance in 10 to the 157th power 1 person fulfilling 300+ prophecies: Only Jesus!  It is the magnificent detail of these prophecies that mark the Bible as the inspired Word of God. Only God could foreknow and accomplish all that was written about the Christ. This historical accuracy and reliability sets the Bible apart from any other book or record. 

by Craig Dunkley
March 3, 2015

Easter is just around the corner, that time each year when Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus.  It makes for an interesting – and quite incredible – story.  Skeptics down through the ages have attempted to disprove it, directing their fire at the key pieces of the story:  Jesus’ death by crucifixion; His burial in a tomb; and various elements related to the resurrection itself.

by Bringing Truth   

Among skeptics today, this is one of the most popular objections to Jesus. They say the story of Jesus is merely a copycat myth based on many ancient pagan religious “gods”, like Horus, Mithras, Osiris, Dionysis etc. They even go as far as to say that it is doubtful that Jesus even existed! The idea here is by comparing similarities of these individuals we can draw the conclusion that the one who came after is simply a copycat.