Answering FreeAtheism.org’s ‘Theist Challenge’
Reading Time: 22 minutesLast week (week of March 6th), Artie the atheist at //freeatheism.org, entered a comment on one of my posts. Then not long afterwards, Artie emailed me with his, ‘Theist Challenge’ and insisted that the atheist position is the “justified” position […]
The Atheist’s Creation – Then You! (Part 2)
Reading Time: 3 minutesA two part series on the teaching of Atheism concerning the beginning of our universe and life. The Atheist’s Creation (Second of a two part series) Summary of Part 1 – Atheists Preaching Creation In the beginning there was nothing, nothing […]
The Atheist’s Creation – Then You!
Reading Time: 5 minutesA two part series on the teaching of Atheism concerning the beginning of our universe and life. The Atheist’s Creation (First of a two part series) In the beginning there was nothing, nothing at all and specifically God did not […]
What is God’s Favor?
Reading Time: 4 minutesBisi from the Nigerian state of Lagos asked a wonderful question; “What is God’s favor?” Earning God’s Favor To many people, receiving God’s favor is something that they think must be earned by them. These people believe that they have […]
How Can One Worship God with All His Heart?
Reading Time: 5 minutesPresley from Douala, Cameroon asked me via email this great question; “How can one worship God with all his heart and really know that he has done so?” First let’s put Presley’s question in context with the Bible: Matthew 22:34-40 […]
Big Deal, Jesus Knew He’d be Resurrected
Reading Time: 8 minutes@AsmodeusDemon in Twitter tweeted to me concerning my article; “Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?” the following: “He didn’t do either given he knew he’d be resurrected. And also because he simply never existed.” Most […]
What is meant by the word ‘truth’ from a Christian point of view?
Reading Time: 9 minutesAlex sent to me the following email asking about ‘truth’ from a Christian perspective: Hello, Your website is interesting to me. Please could you help me with what is meant by the word ‘truth’ from a Christian point of view? […]
What about God’s Forgiveness?
Reading Time: 3 minutesMuragwa from Rwanda in email asked me to explain God’s forgiveness to him. God forgiving us, comes through His love for us and is by His amazing mercy and grace! All sin (our knowingly choosing to do something we shouldn’t […]
Are You Also an Atheist?
Reading Time: 2 minutesJimmy Thunder on YouTube made the comment to me; “you realise [sic] you’re also an atheist right? with regards to every single other deity except the one you’ve ‘chosen’” To answer Jimmy’s question; Jimmy you are wrong, I am not […]
A question about God, the Bible, Faith, and/or how to be Saved
Reading Time: 16 minutesDerrick sent me the following questions in email: I have a question about God, the Bible, Faith, and/or how to be Saved I’m struggling with my faith. All of my life I’ve been told that Jesus is what I should […]
How Can I Know a True Prophet from a False Prophet?
Reading Time: 9 minutesStephen from Lusaka, Zambia asked me in email; “How can I know a true prophet from a false prophet?” Today in this internet and television connected world more than ever it is highly important to know the difference between a […]
I Cannot Fathom that God is Non-Existent
Reading Time: 3 minutesI cannot fathom that God is non-existent due to the abundance of evidence supporting His existence i.e., laws of logic, physics, gravity, the universe, all life, etc. AND above all, the personal relationship I have with Him. Everyone who fathoms […]
Calling a Cat a Dog Doesn’t Make it a Dog
Reading Time: 5 minutes“Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) Throughout my lifetime (+50 years) each […]
How can I know God’s plan for my life?
Reading Time: 3 minutesTomiwa in email from the United Kingdom asked me, “How can I know the plan of God for my life?” This is a question many people think of yet per apathy often don’t follow through on finding out the answer. […]
How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?
Reading Time: 5 minutes@Gorooble from Twitter asked the question; “How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?” and went on and asked; “Why don’t pairs of Christians go into hospitals, pray, heal everybody?” Great questions from @Gorooble and I’ll even up the ante […]
If Jesus really is God, why did He allow Himself to die on a cross?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAndrew from Tanzania asked me in email, “If Jesus was really God, why did He not protect Himself and allow Himself to be put on a cross and die on the cross?” The question Andrew asked is a great question […]
Will My Sinning End after Accepting Jesus?
Reading Time: 4 minutesMartinho in email asked me a really great question: “If I have repented my sins, accepted Jesus as my Savior and pray that my sins will end, will I stop sinning?” You and I (and everyone else) sin. Sin is […]
What does salvation mean thoroughly?
Reading Time: 3 minutesJinnette in email asked me; “What does salvation mean thoroughly? Such a great question and one I’m sure many other people out there want to know the answer to as well. I hope the answer below helps Jinnette and you […]
Whose path are you on?
Reading Time: 2 minutesVictoria in email asked me, “What does it mean, ‘Whose path are you on?’” What a great question! Basically there are only two paths a person can chose to be on; one path goes towards God and the second path […]
Can Atheists Account for the Laws of Nature?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAtheists cannot account for the laws of nature (even though atheists agree that they must exist), for such laws are inconsistent with the atheist’s naturalism. Yet the laws of nature are perfectly consistent with the Bible. We who believe in […]
Did Jesus say, “Come Follow My Rules?”
Reading Time: 3 minutesMost atheists and some people who claim to be a Christian, insist that being a Christian is about following a set of rules. Their claim is that by religiously following a set of defined rules/laws/commandments/etc. that is what being a […]
Does @FlyingFree333 follow what his Twitter bio lists about him?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor a few years @FlyingFree333 has been following me on Twitter. And he has asked a few good questions about God and the Bible which I’ve answered for him either in Tweets and/or here on my blog and YouTube. Yet […]
Do Absolute Moral Standards Exist?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAtheists insist that morality is subjective personal and that there are no absolute moral standards. Atheists insist that that each individual person sets their own moral standards and that society sets the standards for civil morality. Thus, atheists point to […]
Why did Mariam Ibrahim not deny being a Christian?
Reading Time: 4 minutesCurrent as of June 23, 2014 Mariam Ibrahim, 27, refused to renounce her Christian faith in Sudanese court in May 2014, prompting a Muslim judge to sentence her to hang for apostasy. The case became an international cause, with several […]
What’s God Going to Achieve by Sending Sinners to Hell?
Reading Time: 4 minutesSrinivas Vangala from YouTube asked the following questions: 1) If all Sinners are sent to Hell what [is] God is going to achieve from that? A) The Bible teaches that everyone is a sinner thus everyone including you and me […]
What is the Old Nature and New Nature?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan asked me a great question in email; “What is the Old Nature and New Nature?” The Bible calls the ‘old nature’ sin or the flesh. The apostle Paul says that the law of sin dwells in our body (Romans […]
What Specified Works do Christians Depend Upon?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan, asked me in email an excellent question, “Do Christians depend upon Specified Works?” The good news everyone needs to understand is God’s great love for you provided to us Christ Jesus who did all that is needed for you […]
Do we need to accept Jesus and follow His commands to receive eternal life?
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuan, via email asked me a great question; “Do we just need to accept Jesus and follow His commands so to be saved and ready to receive eternal life?” The answer to Juan’s question has two parts to it; good […]
God Demonstrates His Existence Empirically
Reading Time: 19 minutes@WarriorOfWriters in a YouTube personal email and @TheTomtomPiper on Twitter challenged me to show how God empirically demonstrated His existence. What a great challenge @WarriorOfWriters and @TheTomtomPiper posed to me! It really is a great challenge and yet is a […]
Does God Send People to Hell for Being Born in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time?
Reading Time: 6 minutesAsking specifically about the pre-18th century Australian aboriginals, @WarriorOfWriters in a YouTube personal email asked me; “What good God would allow all those before to burn eternally for being born in the wrong place at the wrong time without any […]
Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?
Reading Time: 10 minutes@GreedyIan from Twitter asked; “hey rather than dying for our sins, maybe Jesus died simply because he was nailed to a big wooden cross?” Actually @GreedyIan has asked a very good question and I’m glad that he asked it. What […]
“The God Delusion” Changed My Life (part 3)
Reading Time: 23 minutesThis is My Encounter with Richard Dawkins’ book; “The God Delusion” and how it changed my life. This is the story of how reading Richard Dawkins’ book, “The God Delusion” changed my life. As I was reading it, with each […]
Why is it Important that Genesis is Right?
Reading Time: 9 minutes@robineccles on Twitter asked me, “why is it important that the first couple of chapters of the OT are right?” Robin asked a very good and very important question. Let’s determine why it matters that Genesis is correct. In fact, […]
The Five Commandments of Atheism (Part 2)
Reading Time: 8 minutesAtheism’s First of Five Commandments – Suppress the Truth Atheists think that if they could just get everyone who believes in God to not do so or to at least say that they do not do so just to appease […]
Who is Jesus?
Reading Time: 4 minutesEaster is nearing and the reason we celebrate it is because this is how God showed his love for us and how he demonstrated his mercy on us. By Christ Jesus’ living a sinless life during his physical life on […]
Are Atheists Emotionally Insecure?
Reading Time: 6 minutesInsecurity is a feeling of general unease or nervousness that may be triggered by perceiving of oneself to be vulnerable in some way, or a sense of vulnerability or instability which threatens one's self-image or ego. Insecurity may help to […]
Yes I Use Circular Reasoning
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe common accusation that I use circular reasoning is actually true. In fact, everyone uses some degree of circular reasoning when defending his ultimate standard (though not everyone realizes this fact). Yet if used properly, this use of circular reasoning […]
Christopher Hitchens Legacy to Humanity
Reading Time: 6 minutesChristopher Hitchens legacy to humanity falls short of what it could have been. A statement released by Vanity Fair late the night Christopher Hitchens died stated: “There will never be another like Christopher. A man of ferocious intellect, who was […]
Christopher Hitchens Knew what a True Christian Is
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy deepest condolences to the Hitchens family at their time of loss of husband, father, brother, friend; Christopher Hitchens died on December 15th, 2011 from complications brought on by cancer. Though the melancholy as time goes by lessens it never […]
Why Would Anyone Think Noah’s Flood is True?
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Morals – Absolute or Not?
Reading Time: 11 minutes@GRIMACHU from Twitter says that morals are subjective (not absolute) and that we live within secular morality. Going on to say that the Bible has contractions in Luke 16:17 and Matthew 5:18-19 which undermines 'absolute morality' said to be within […]
Yes I am a Liar
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is a liar? From dictionary.com: a liar is a person who tells lies. Lies are a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood – something intended or serving to convey a false impression; […]
Why do atheists like Penn Jillett, use God’s name as profanity?
Reading Time: 6 minutesI’ve been watching Penn & Teller (Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller) do their blend of illusion and comedy from when they were first on Saturday Night Live, through their TV specials, guest appearances, and most lately their “Fool Us” and […]
Want Proof?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever without any warning yelled at, cursed, called them nasty names, belittled them, put them down, all while you were also shouting out that they do not exist; run up to and get into the face of and […]
Atheist’s Morality Nightmare
Reading Time: 10 minutesAtheist Tim lays down on a couch to take a nap only to findhimself in a abysmal moral quandary. Angela suddenly standing beside Atheist Tim asks him, “Tim,have you ever told a lie?” A very startled Atheist Tim asks, “What?” […]
Why is the Bible so Wrong on so Many Things?
Reading Time: 1 minuteflypaper4weirdos from YouTube asks, “Why is the bible wrong on so many things?” Obviously flypaper4weirdos is mistaking the Holy Bible with say the writings of Buda, theKoran, the Book of Mormon, and the Jehovah Witness New World Translation (NWT)because the […]
Did God Require Child Sacrifices?
Reading Time: 3 minutesjoestfrancois from YouTube asks, “Was Abraham going to kill his son for your [G]od or not?” Reading the Bible in Context helps One Understand Truth It is clear for anyone reading the Bible in context what Abraham believed would happen […]
Questions about the Bible
Reading Time: 5 minutesautonerf from YouTube asks a number of good questions about the Bible (God’s Word). Why are there so many versions of God’s word today, and which version do you believe to be the most accurate? Why are there so many […]
Does God Answer Prayer?
Reading Time: 16 minutesGoodWithout_God from Twitter asks: Do you think your [G]od ignored & rejected the prayers of the people these actors from the movie "God on Trial"portray? Giving to me a link to a specific scene from the movie where one of […]
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