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Culture: Why Pay Taxes?

13th July 2020

This week, millions of Americans will once again endure the filing and, in some cases, the payment of taxes—three months late, this time around, due to the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. Taxation has never been particularly popular among Americans, having once incited several dozen Bostonians to dress up as Mohawk warriors and toss tea […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: Gospels, John Wesley, kingdom, tax, Tertullian

Church History: Who Decided Which Books Belong in My Bible?

28th May 2014

Suppose that you became a Christian in the second century A.D. You’ve heard the story of a divine being who died on a cross and rose from the dead. Through baptism, you’ve openly identified yourself with his followers. Now, you want to learn more about this deity. Yet you quickly realize that some people who […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Athanasius, canon, Gospels, New Testament, Papias, Polycarp, Serapion, Tertullian

Apologetics: Why the Acts of Paul and Gospel of Peter Aren’t On Your Schedule for Reading the Bible in a Year

3rd January 2013

Perhaps you, like many others, are planning to read through the Bible this year. If you do, you’re likely to ask yourself at some point, “Weren’t there other Gospels and letters that didn’t make it into the Bible? Why am I reading these texts instead of those?” So what about those other Gospels? Well, from […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Serve Tagged With: Acts of Paul, apologetics, Athanasius, canon, Gospel of Peter, Gospels, New Testament, Serapion, Tertullian

Apologetics: Why Some Books Made It Into the New Testament and Others Didn’t

31st December 2012

It’s New Year’s Eve! Tomorrow, many of you will begin reading through the Bible in a year. Before you do, I want to plant a question in your mind: Why these books? Why spend the year reading through these ancient texts and not some other documents? What’s so important about these books that owe their […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Athanasius, canon, Gospels, New Testament, Papias, Polycarp, Serapion, Tertullian

Apologetics: Why the Singleness of Jesus Makes the Best Sense of the Evidence

20th September 2012

“It is an embarrassing insight into human nature that the more fantastic the scenario, the more sensational is the promotion it receives and the more intense the faddish interest it attracts,” biblical scholar Raymond Brown wrote nearly two decades ago. “People who would never bother reading a responsible analysis of the traditions about how Jesus […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Clement, Gnosticism, Gnostics, Gospels, New Testament, Tertullian, The Gospel of Jesus's Wife

Why No Baptized Lions Or Talking Crosses Made It Into Your Bible

14th May 2012

From the first century forward, Christians viewed testimony that could be connected to eyewitnesses of Jesus as uniquely authoritative. The logic of this standard was simple: The people most likely to know the truth about Jesus were either eyewitnesses who had encountered Jesus personally or close associates of these witnesses. So, although Christians wrangled for […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: Acts of Paul, apologetics, Athanasius, canon, Gospel of Peter, Gospels, New Testament, Serapion, Tertullian

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