Bill Pratt | May 7, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The sixth way is that Jesus Claimed to Be God by Requesting Prayer in His Name. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. Nobody before Jesus, among Hebrew prophets, ever insisted that people pray in [...]
Bill Pratt | May 5, 2009
Christians believe that God is omniscient, which means that God knows everything—past, present, and future. In addition, he knows the actual and the possible; only the impossible (the contradictory) is unknown to God, as the logically contradictory is unknowable to anyone. But there are passages in the Bible that seem to indicate that God is [...]
Darrell | May 3, 2009
In Matthew 5:9 Jesus speaks very highly of those He calls peacemakers. He says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” Occasionally those involved in Apologetics are accused of causing contention and driving away peace. This is especially true of those who speak out against the heretical teachings of cults. People sometimes become offended, accuse us of [...]
Bill Pratt | May 3, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The fifth way is that Jesus Claimed to Have Equal Authority with God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. In the New Testament, Jesus places his words on an equal footing with God’s. Following [...]
Bill Pratt | May 2, 2009
Recently, in the news, there has been much discussion of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding. This technique simulates drowning and some have called it torture. But most of the discussions I’ve seen on this topic do not debate whether waterboarding is torture or not, but instead debate whether waterboarding of certain terrorists was successful [...]
