Bill Pratt | August 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Christians are often confused about this question, so I want to give a quick summary. The 27 books of the New Testament (NT) were originally written in the common Greek language of the first century. They were all hand-written, likely on papyrus. These hand-written manuscripts were then copied, by hand, for [...]
Category: General Apologetics, New Testament Reliability, Textual Criticism |
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Tags: Bible, Bible translation, Greek New Testament, New Testament, Textual Criticism
Bill Pratt | August 6, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Well, there are many, but Wintery Knight points us to an excellent article written by Robert George that explains some of the issues quite well. George rightly asserts that we must, as a society, agree on what marriage is before we start re-defining it. And, it is up to the people [...]
Category: Gay Marriage, Marriage |
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Tags: Gay Marriage, Marriage, Robert George
Bill Pratt | August 5, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Check out the interesting video at Roger Morris’ Faith Interface blog. Well worth 3 minutes of your time.
Category: Philosophy, Religion |
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Tags: apologetics, Christianity, Religion
Bill Pratt | August 4, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I remember the first time I heard of Scientology was in the early 1990′s when I was in Atlanta attending GA Tech. They ran one of those personality assessment offices in Atlanta and I was curious about who they were. Then I started doing some reading and discovered some very disturbing [...]
Category: Cults |
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Tags: Cults, Religion, Scientology, St Petersburg Times
Bill Pratt | August 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have been having an interesting discussion with a gentleman on the issue of the empty tomb. We’ve touched on some of the evidence, but I decided to present a brief synopsis of William Lane Craig’s arguments for the empty tomb (from Jesus under Fire). Here goes! The historical credibility of [...]
Category: New Testament Reliability, Resurrection |
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Tags: apologetics, Christianity, empty tomb, God, historicity of the Bible, New Testament Reliability, Resurrection, William Lane Craig
Bill Pratt | August 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt The Apologetics 315 blog has a very impressive archive of mp3 audio files of all sorts of Christian apologetics material. If you like to hear apologetics instead of just reading it, this is a great place to go. These guys are performing a valuable service for all of us with this [...]
Category: General Apologetics |
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Tags: apologetics, Christianity, God