Apologetics and Evidence

Jesus said, “Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” ~John 18:37-38.   About 20 years ago, I was discussing theology and Christianity with a shop owner of musical instruments in Nanuet, NY. In the end, he asked the same question that Pontius Pilate did in the Biblical quote above. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the answers that I do now, and I wish I could go back to the time of that conversation. The question, “what is truth?” is a great question, and the answer to it is easier than one might think. I first heard of this discovery in several different works from Norman Geisler [1] and J. P. Moreland . [2] Together, their writings on truth sparked a fire in me to memorize the Three Fundamental Laws and what they mean. Before I get to the Three Fundamental Laws of Logic, I think it is appropriate to show what makes the ability to know the truth so valuable. For starters, Jesus says that “knowing the truth will set a person fr...

How much must one know about Jesus Christ in order to be saved? In other words, what is the limit of knowledge that God requires in order to confer salvific grace? “For God so  loved the world, that He  gave His  only begotten Son, that whoever  believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (NASB John 3:16). The Agent In the book of John, chapter three, verse sixteen, one can find a passage of scripture that has been used for many years as a summary for what Christians today call the Bible. With an analysis of this verse, one can plainly see that there is a goal that should be sought out by everyone. “For God so loved the world” allows the readers to see who this message is directed towards, aside from Nicodemus. With that in mind, one can see that the word “whoever” can address every reader and every “believer” as well. One of the goals readers should seek from this verse is very simple: That we as humans should desire eternal life. The real q...

Introduction             Since the Beginning of Christian Theology, there has been great confusion, on what seems to be ambiguous, of the doctrine of soteriology. People throughout the centuries have argued, literally to death, on what the Bible speaks of concerning salvation and the nature of grace. It seems hard to argue the meaning of a lot of verses in Scripture, especially in the book of Romans, which seems to explicitly speak of the monergistic side of the nature of grace. Therefore, since we know that the book of Romans seems highly educated on the subject of grace, let’s not waste any more time and delve into the crevices of theology that are found there.                 It seems that most of the theological dialogue that has been going on through the centuries has taken most of its support from the book of Romans. In arguing against Pelagius, A...