Bill Pratt | October 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 2 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #6: Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage. Some passages in [...]
Bill Pratt | October 4, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #3: Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation. The words [...]
Bill Pratt | September 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common accusations I hear from skeptics is that the Bible is full of errors and contradictions. How do you and I, as Christians who believe the Bible is without error, deal with these claims? Several years ago, I purchased a book by Norman Geisler and Tom Howe [...]
Bill Pratt | September 27, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Bart Ehrman’s book Misquoting Jesus, he relays a life-changing event that occurred during his university days at Princeton. He wrote a paper on an alleged historical error made in Mark 2:26, where Jesus refers to David and his companions entering the house of God and eating the consecrated bread. Here [...]
Bill Pratt | September 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt To be honest, we just don’t know. Let’s take a brief look at the evidence we have. First, we will summarize the evidence external to the actual words of Hebrews. According to D. Edmond Hiebert, there were three early church traditions about authorship. The tradition from Alexandria, Egypt held that the [...]
Bill Pratt | September 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I sometimes hear skeptics say that they need extraordinary evidence to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. The reason they need extraordinary evidence, they claim, is that the resurrection is an extraordinary claim. It is true that the resurrection is an extraordinary claim, but there are many extraordinary claims made [...]
Bill Pratt | September 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent post, I mentioned some of the speakers at an upcoming apologetics conference sponsored by Southern Evangelical Seminary. One blog commenter noticed that Catholic speakers were being featured at the event and argued that they should not be. He believes that Catholics are not Christians, and therefore cannot properly [...]
Bill Pratt | September 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Southern Evangelical Seminary is hosting their annual apologetics conference on Nov. 13 and 14 in Charlotte, NC. The conference will feature speakers such as William Lane Craig, Chuck Colson, Dinesh D’Souza, Greg Koukl, Gary Habermas, Hank Hanegraaff, and Peter Kreeft (click here for the full speaker list). These men are all [...]
