Bill Pratt | June 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago I attended a debate between a Christian scholar and an atheist scholar at a local university. At the conclusion of the debate there was a Q and A session and one of the atheist students stood up and asked something like the following to the Christian scholar: [...]
Bill Pratt | December 21, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt It may surprise some Christians that the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, speaks about Jesus. In fact, the Qur’an speaks of Jesus as a great prophet of God and records some of the miracles that Jesus performed. However, the Qur’an denies one important event in the life of Jesus, his [...]
Bill Pratt | November 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Between AD 1258 and 1264, Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa contra Gentiles, a book at least partially aimed at arguing for the truth of Christianity against the falsehood of Islam. Recall that Islam was founded and spread in the seventh century, about 600 years before Thomas wrote. In an interesting section of [...]
Bill Pratt | December 24, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many people wonder why we don’t see miracles such as the parting of the sea, the raising of the dead, and people walking on water. It seems like miracles were pretty common in the Old and New Testaments, but today nothing like that seems to happen. Why? First of all, I [...]
Bill Pratt | June 11, 2009
Imagine the following scenario: two people claim to know the same professional football player. The football player’s name is Alex and he plays in the NFL. The first person who knows Alex the football player describes him this way: He is 6′ 6″ tall, he weighs 305 lbs., he plays left tackle, he is married, [...]
Bill Pratt | March 2, 2009
In this series of posts, we have shown that the NT writers claimed to be eyewitnesses or associates of eyewitnesses; we have shown that we have multiple witnesses, and we have shown that the eyewitnesses were trustworthy. How? They included embarrassing details about themselves and difficult details about their subject of worship, Jesus; their accounts [...]
Bill Pratt | January 4, 2009
I just saw a fascinating documentary on Fox, called Escape from Hamas, about an up-and-coming leader of Hamas becoming disillusioned with the teachings of Hamas and radical Islam. The documentary tells how he, Mosab Hassan, converted to Christianity and is now living in America and hoping to spread the word about the extremism within Hamas and [...]
