Apologetics and Evidence

When one considers the issues of   post-modernism , such as the idea that everyone has their own truth, the question becomes, how do we answer someone who is adamantly standing on such ground? What will change their mind about the truth of the gospel if everyone has his or her own truth?   It seems that the first thing we should know is how to combat  post-modernism  with the  Three Fundamental Laws of Logic . The most significant of the three laws in combatting post-modernism is t he Law of non-contradiction . The idea is that any truth statement or claim is made, such as, “Jesus rose from the dead,” or “Jennifer is pregnant” or “it is morally correct to transition genders if one feels it is necessary,” then the fact of the matter is that not one of these truth claims can be both true and false at the same time and in the same sense.  To use the third fundamental law of logic, called  the Law of the excluded middle , which would be to say that all of ...

Let’s begin by looking at 2 Corinthians 2:5-11.    “Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough, so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So, I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything. Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”   Paul is talking in this passage about the person who stirred up trouble for him in the passage immediately before this. The person stirred up trouble by spreading the idea that Paul is not an Apostle. But here, Paul belittles the pain that may have been caused to him for the ...

The Bible, in comparison to other religious texts specifically, is the absolute truth. People sometimes assume that the Bible cannot be true because there are so many other options of biblical interpretation as well as so many other options of religions that claim to have sacred texts. With such availability, one often assumes that we cannot possibly know which religion is true, if any at all. The arguments in this article will discuss some of the issues directly concerning the veracity of the Bible in comparison to other supposed, sacred or holy writings, and will establish the idea that the qualities of one sacred text does not necessarily mean that the next sacred text in line has those same qualities. Finally, there will be a discussion on truth, discerning the idea of relevance, and a brief ethical discussion of whether or not it is morally correct to explore the truth claims of other religions. Ultimately, this article as a whole will seek to answer the question, “How can the Bib...