Apologetics and Evidence

How and Where to Make Divisions... Sometimes, I get asked “Why do you get so up at arms about other religions?” or, “Why do you pick on other religions so much?” I think the following will help you see where I’m coming from, before I spill the beans on such.   We have difficulty sometimes in discovering where to make divisions when considering where to spend our money, and who to support, where to make purchases, and where not to do such. We also often have difficulty on how to know if a church or a congregation is a place where someone can actually become saved. Like, how can we know that a Mormon is likely not saved but we can know that a regular church attender at a gospel sound church is likely saved? What is it that would make my church attendance at a specific body no longer appropriate? Both answers to these questions deal with doctrine. If a company is pushing false doctrine using their influence and power to push a heretical doctrine or teaching, this is often when the red...

Have you ever wondered why there are so many religions in the world? I frequently hear that number being estimated at over 4000. Over 4000 religions in the world today! Have you ever thought about why there are so many?  The answer to this question will take some unpacking, so bear with me and think about the following for a moment…  Objective beauty   is something that, as an object, is beautiful. It is not just beautiful to the subject (or, to the observer), but is something that is beautiful in and of itself. Objective beauty is something nearly all subjects find beautiful because the object itself is beautiful. It does not need subjects to confirm its beauty in order for it to be beautiful.    1. If objective beauty exists, then God exists. 2. Objective beauty exists. 3. Therefore, God exists.   If there is anything at all (even if it is only one thing) that is objectively beautiful, then objective beauty exists. If there are things in the universe that...

From the perspective of a Muslim, God is “one” in the strictest sense. Muslims famously teach and claim that “ There is one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet .” Anything in addition to Allah in this sense is to commit the greatest of all crimes in Islam, which is called  shirk . Shirk is understood this way by Muslims because of passages such as Sura 4:48, which reads, “Surely  Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him , and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.” [1]  In this passage then, readers can conclude that the definition of shirk is anything associated with Allah, this is what makes it the greatest sin of all.   On the contrary, in Christianity, God is three persons in one being. In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus tells His Disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all ...