Defending the Life of the Unborn Part 11

If you are prolife you need to ask yourself the question, what can I do?  Babies are being killed daily and there doesn’t seem to be an end to this tragedy.  As prolife advocates we need to do something.  Here are a few ideas:

We can help guide woman away from having an abortion. We [...]

Discovering the Historical Jesus part 6

My final extra-Biblical witness to the historical Jesus will be Pliny the Younger.  He was the nephew of Pliny the Elder, a famous encyclopedist, who died in a volcanic eruption A.D. 79.  Pliny the Younger became governor of Bithynia in northwestern Turkey.  His writings to Emperor Trajan have been preserved from the second century to [...]

Discovering the Historical Jesus part 5

Another notable ancient historian was Cornelius Tacitus.  Many consider Tacitus the most important Roman historian of the 1st century.  His writings actually lend support to the accuracy of Josephus which is important from a historical standpoint.
Quoting from Annals 15.44, Tacitus writes that Emperor Nero blamed Christians for Rome’s fire in 64 AD in order to [...]

Discovering the Historical Jesus part 4

Josephus wrote a longer section about Jesus in his book Antiquities.  Some controversy surrounds this passage.  We read from Antiquities:
“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth [...]

Can We Be Good without God?

In my comment section on this web site I have been having discussions with atheists concerning morality.  I have been asking for their source of morality; where does it originate?   One answer is all morality is relative to what society says.  This causes problems because they cannot say things like “torturing babies for fun” is [...]

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