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“There’s No Right Interpretation!”

February 24, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, relativism, truth

I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3b). Do you contend for the faith? We live in a skeptical and relativistic culture. For decades now, people have been taught that most* of what we believe is

Just Let Him Go: Luther on How to Respond to Atheists

May 29, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, atheism, atheist, Martin Luther

I love apologetics. I started witnessing a couple of months after I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. The first group I went to was the local Muslim student association. I remember they gave me a tract alleging that Christians believe in three gods. “We do?” I said. From that moment on, I

From Devout Roman Catholic to Agnostic

April 15, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Absolutes, Agnosticism, apologetics, Jared Bilski, parenting

My sister sent me a blog about a Washington Post article by Jared Bilski entitled, “I’m not passing my parents’ religion on to my kids, but I am teaching their values.” You can read the article here. The blog, by Dr. Jim Denison, covered four main points. You can read his blog here. Bilski grew

God Exists (Believer’s Systematic Theology)

April 10, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, existence of God, systematic theology

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). In the beginning—before the beginning of you, me, or anything else—God existed. But where? And how? And what does it mean for God to exist? Is God just another thing in the universe? Some people think so. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the

Are We Being Unfair to Blomberg on Inerrancy?

May 22, 2015 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, bible, inerrancy

The battle for the Bible is far from over. In his book, Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Question, professor Craig L. Blomberg makes some extraordinary (and controversial) claims about what counts as believing in inerrancy, especially in chapters 5 and 6. Earlier this month, our Editor, Bob Wilkin, wrote