It’s an age-old challenge to Christianity. We’re all just irrational people who believe in imaginary beings we can’t see, touch, hear, or scientifically test. Where is the evidence? It’s an oldie, but how can you believe in something you can’t see?
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Does God Still Give Spiritual Gifts
Prophecy, miracles, speaking in tongues, etc. Do they still happen? Does God still give spiritual gifts, or only to the original apostles?
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Why did God Create Satan?
Why would God allow such an evil and dangerous being to exist in the first place, knowing the problems he would cause? Why did God create Satan?
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Was the Flood Justified?
One of the most popular objections to God and the Bible is the violence in the Old Testament. However, usually, people focus on the destruction of the Canaanites. Frankly, those stories are tame compared to the Flood. You want to talk about God destroying a civilization? Let’s talk about the time he flooded the world […]
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Did Jesus Claim to be God?
If it is such an essential part of Christianity, why didn’t Jesus ever explicitly declare that he was God? It is true that Jesus never said the words “I am God,” but he might as well have. This challenge is pretty easy to resolve if you simply know your Bible.
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Is God the Greatest Abortionist?
In America alone, there are almost 3,000 abortions every single day. The numbers are hard to comprehend. However, those numbers are dwarfed by the number of unborn babies that die through natural causes. Is God responsible for those deaths since he could have prevented them?
Continue ReadingGod: The Artist or the Engineer?
We tend to think of God as one of two things. Either God is the wise engineer who perfectly designs everything to be the most optimal and efficient they can be, or, God is the creative artist, less concerned about efficiency than beauty. What I observe though is that God is both, and we need to read both into all of creation to truly understand it.
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: What is Molinism?
Molinism is a fairly detailed theory about God’s omniscient knowledge and how it relates with human free will. If God controls everything, do we still have a choice?
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: What is Modalism?
One of the hardest subjects to talk about in Christianity is the Triune nature of God. We’ve been trying for a few thousand years and have come up with a lot of bad ways to explain it. We like to use analogies like God is like water, in that he can be a solid, liquid, […]
Continue ReadingQuick Challenge Answer: Is the Coronavirus Judgment from God?
Is this God’s wrath upon us? Why would God allow it to happen? How can we better understand this pandemic?
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