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IS FAITH INFERIOR TO REASON?

IS FAITH INFERIOR TO REASON?

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Atheists assert that faith is inferior to reason. One of the reasons (no pun untended) for this is that they usually have a misconception of what faith actually is, thinking it is blind faith or credulity. True Biblical faith is:

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”—Hebrews 11:1 NASB

“Faith shows the reality of what we hope for, it is the evidence of things we cannot see”—Hebrews 11:1 NLT

“Faith” here is from the Greek word pistis, which refers “to confidence that something is real, with a strong implication that action will ensue from this belief” (NLT Word Study System). read more

BIBLE DATES PROVEN TO BE ACCURATE

BIBLE DATES PROVEN TO BE ACCURATE

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In contrast to many other religious works, such as Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, the Apocryphal Books, the Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants, etc., for example, the Bible has a number of dates that can be cross-checked with surviving ancient records and accurately related to our modern calendar. These facts are just some of the ways that the Bible has proven to authentic and genuine. Some examples follow.

“In the ninth year Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the month of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his whole army. He encamped outside the city and built site works all around it. The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah”—2 Kings 25:1 NIV read more

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LORD’S SUPPER?

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LORD’S SUPPER?

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The reason to celebrate “the Lord’s Supper” (1 Corinthians 11:20 NIV) is because Jesus Christ, the Son of God, commanded that his disciples should. Notice:

“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, ‘This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured  out for you'”—Luke 22:19,20 NIV read more

BELIEVING THE UNIVERSE JUST “HAPPENED” TAKES MORE FAITH THAN BELIEVING GOD CREATED

BELIEVING THE UNIVERSE JUST “HAPPENED” TAKES MORE FAITH THAN BELIEVING GOD CREATED

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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”—Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth”, or “When God began to create the heavens and the earth”—Genesis 1:1 NLT margin

Our Milky Way Galaxy has at least 100 billion stars, possibly 200 to 400 billion or several trillion, and is spinning at the incredible speed of 490,000 miles per hour. But even at that super speed, it takes 200 million years to make just one rotation. If one could travel at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to cross it. The average distance between stars is estimated at about 36 trillion miles. There are estimated to be about two hundred billion total galaxies in the universe that are more or less similar to ours, some of which are much larger than the Milky Way galaxy. read more

GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES OF A GLOBAL FLOOD

GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES OF A GLOBAL FLOOD

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The global flood, as described in the Bible book of Genesis, is considered to be a myth by many people and scholars today, but let’s look at how the Bible describes it

“When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights”—Genesis 7:11,12 NLT

“Finally, the water covered the highest mountains on earth, rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks. All the living things on earth died–birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people”—Genesis 7:19-22 NLT read more

Does the Mention of God, Jesus, & the holy Spirit Prove the Trinity?

Does the Mention of God, Jesus, & the holy Spirit Prove the Trinity?

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Trinitarians say that places in the Bible in which God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, are mentioned together prove their doctrine is true. However, the Trinity doctrine goes far beyond acknowledging the existence of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. What exactly is the Trinity doctrine? A very good, concise, definition by a devoted Trinitarian expert is:

“Within the One Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”—The Forgotten Trinity, page 23 read more

WAS AHAB EVER A GOOD KING?

WAS AHAB EVER A GOOD KING?

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It has been said, and even preached in church, that Ahab started out as a good king because of the names he gave his two sons. Ahaziah  means “Yahweh grasps [his hand]” (1 Kings 22:51), and Joram (Jehoram) means “Yahweh is exalted” (2 Kings 1:17; 3:1-3). On the surface, it may appear that Ahab must have been good when his sons were born, because he gave them names that exalt and praise the true God Yahweh. However, many others in the Bible who were not good people also named their children names exalting and praising Yahweh.  Simply giving a child a good name does not mean the parent[s] is/are good. read more

WAS JESUS’ CONCEPTION A MORAL EVENT?

WAS JESUS’ CONCEPTION A MORAL EVENT?

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The two biblical accounts that deal with Jesus’ conception (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35), both present it as moral in every sense of the word. There have been a few who, without any Biblical evidence, have claimed otherwise.

“God sent the angel Gabriel . . . to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph . . . The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.’  Mary was greatly troubled at this and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and be called the Son of the Most High . . . ‘ ‘How will this be,’ Mary asked the angel, ‘since I am a virgin? The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God'” (Luke 1:26-35 NIV). read more

WAS MARY A TEENAGER WHEN JESUS WAS CONCEIVED?

WAS MARY A TEENAGER WHEN JESUS WAS CONCEIVED?

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“When the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law”—Galatians 4:4 NIV

While some pastors, Bible teachers, and even “scholars”, claim that Mary was a teenager when Jesus was conceived, the Bible does not give Mary’s age. Contrary to the claims that she was only teenager, the Bible says she was “a woman”. 

In the two Biblical accounts that deal with Jesus’ miraculous conception, Mary’s age is never mentioned (Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-35). No clue is given as to her approximate age at that time.  read more

WHO IS “THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN”?

WHO IS “THE MAJESTY IN HEAVEN”?

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 “To the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord”—Jude 25 NIV

There is a popular song that is frequently sung in evangelical churches and groups called “Majesty” that calls Jesus Christ “Majesty”. There are two scriptures in the Bible that refer to “the Majesty in heaven”. Let’s look at them:

“The Son . . . After he had provided purification for our sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven”—Hebrews 1:3 NIV read more

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