Bill Pratt | March 31, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently I was conversing with a skeptic of Christianity who was explaining why he had become a skeptic. One of the most significant reasons was that he was greatly disappointed that the New Testament, and Jesus in particular, did not address a particular social institution which he considers to be particularly [...]
Darrell | March 26, 2010
Post Author: Darrell I recently did a couple of posts regarding the incoherence of an actual infinite and how, as a result, the eternality of matter as taught in Mormonism is impossible. These posts can be found here and here. I want to address another way of analyzing the concept of ”eternal matter” as taught in the Mormon [...]
Bill Pratt | March 24, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt An Iowa State University research team says “yes” and that they have the data to prove it. According to ISU: Iowa State researchers, led by Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson, have collaborated on a new study that analyzes 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects proving exposure to violent [...]
Bill Pratt | March 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts one, two, and three of this series of posts, we discussed the writings of Josephus and Tacitus, who are both non-Christians. They each provide historical confirmation of key components of the history recorded in the New Testament. Before ending this series, I want to look at one more writer [...]
Bill Pratt | March 21, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the first bloggers that ever reached out to me when we started Tough Questions Answered in November of 2008 was Kevin Nelstead, who authors the blog called The GeoChristian. I noticed recently that Kevin was building a “best of” page and I want to encourage our readers to see [...]
Bill Pratt | March 18, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts one and two of this series of posts, we discussed the writings of Josephus and we saw that most historians agree that Josephus did indeed write about Jesus, even if Christians may have added a few phrases later on (this is still debatable, but possible). There are, however, others [...]
Bill Pratt | March 16, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1, we introduced the writings of the Jewish historian Josephus and demonstrated that he mentioned Jesus and his brother James in one section of his work, The Antiquities. But there is an even more famous passage that talks about Jesus in The Antiquities. This longer section is referred to [...]
Darrell | March 10, 2010
Post Author: Darrell Some religious organizations emphasize that knowledge of truth is obtained through an experience. For example, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church) proclaims to be the only true church of Jesus Christ on the earth today, and they encourage those researching the church to gain a Testimony (belief/knowledge) of the truthfulness of [...]
Bill Pratt | March 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many Christians seem to think so. Why else would they talk about finding God’s will as if it’s a game of hide-and-seek. We’re told to listen to the still, small voice and to test a possible decision based on the peace we feel. We’re told to pay attention to the hints [...]
Bill Pratt | March 7, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently one of our good friends, Kent Shelton, started producing his own blog at GlorifyGodDaily.org. Kent was a great help to us in moving our blog from its old WordPress location to ToughQuestionsAnswered.org, as his professional web development expertise helped us avoid many pitfalls. We couldn’t have done it without his [...]
