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Miracles are Possible: 2 Reasons Hume Got it Wrong
Miracles are thought by many to be impossible. While this seems reasonable at first, the traditional reasoning given is not as compelling as it may first appear.
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How Can I Love God When I’m Struggling to Like Him?
I think if we are honest with ourselves, there are circumstances in life that bring us to a place of frustration with God. We know in the back of our minds that we love Him, but we really struggle with liking Him and His decisions. This concept is not foreign to most of us, especially […]
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Response to Dr. Charles Surrett
Our response to the gracious criticism of our previous article, The Fallacy of a Perfect Greek Text, provided by Dr. Surrett.
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Does the Gospel of Thomas Belong in the New Testament?
Introduction The Gospel of Thomas is the most recognized of the Apocryphal Gospels in modern day academia. This was one of the documents discovered at Nag Hammadi, in 1945. The Nag Hammadi manuscripts are a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty Apocryphal texts. The most famous texts would be the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of […]
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Did Adam’s Sin Make Me a Sinner?
In this article, Stephen and Caroline walk the reader through Romans 5:12-21, demonstrating the federal headship of both Adam and Christ. In this passage, Paul gives the believers at Rome six parallels between the two federal heads.
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The Giant Jesus and the Talking Cross: A Study of the Gospel According to Peter
Introduction In 1886, the Gospel of Peter (henceforth GPet) was discovered by a French archaeologist named Urbain Bouriant. This discovery took place in the modern Egyptian city of Akhmim. This location is within ten miles of Nag Hammadi, which would later become one of the biggest discoveries of non-canonical documents almost 60 years later. The manuscript […]
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The Fallacy of a Perfect Greek Text
Introduction -Jonathan Beazley It is our belief that Christian people can no longer afford to be ignorant of how we have come to inherit a Bible; and how it has been preserved for us by God. Generally speaking, this subject has been largely omitted from our churches and has unfortunately been reserved for the […]
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Slavery in the Bible?
The Bible talks a whole lot about slavery, and even seems to promote it in some place, how do we wrestle with that? Understanding the narrative that is built around slavery in the Bible can help us clearly see God's intent for slavery.
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Do Objective Moral Values Exist?
Written by: Caroline Moore I was recently having a conversation with my brother, who is an atheist, about what we most want out of life. Brothers and sisters who are close in age are likely to have such late-night conversations, but our differences of religious affiliation lead us to different ideas about what we’re on […]
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The Gospel According to Peter (English Translation)
Translated by Dr. Stephen Boyce **This English translation was translated from the Greek Text from Bouriant, the Greek Text from Swete, and a visual examination of the manuscript P.Cair. 10759: Gospel of Peter. The fragmented manuscript begins with the words “But none of the Jews.” (1)…But none of the Jews washed their hands, not even Herod, nor any […]
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A Maximally Great Pizza
Is it possible that there exists a maximally great pizza? If not, how can we say that God, a maximally great being actually exists?
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Did John Write the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery?
“…Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.”Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?” This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as […]