Bill Pratt | December 3, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt (re-posted from last year) New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III has written a brief article that discusses the birth narrative as conveyed in Luke 2. Witherington reminds us that the modern version of Jesus’ birth is not exactly faithful to the biblical account. “Like works of art that have been lacquered [...]
Darrell | June 1, 2010
Post Author: Darrell As discussed in the last post, the Mormon Church teaches that God the Father has a body of flesh and bone. Unfortunately for Mormons, there are biblical problems with this teaching. John 4:24 says, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” This verse has long been held as [...]
Darrell | May 28, 2010
Post Author: Darrell In its short 180 year life, the Mormon Church has had a curious relationship with traditional Christianity. A quick look through Mormon history will demonstrate that the LDS Church has a long history of degrading Christian teachings. As a result, it is somewhat odd to find modern day LDS leaders referring to their [...]
Bill Pratt | May 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you’ve ever listened to Ravi Zacharias, you’ve noticed he likes to quote from English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. One of my favorite quotes from Muggeridge has to do with his description of the frailty of nations and empires, with particular attention to those of the 20th century. In a gripping message, [...]
Bill Pratt | March 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If Jesus is God, and God is uncaused, immaterial, omniscient, omnipotent, and eternal (and lots of other things), then don’t we have a problem with Jesus being a real man who lived in 1st century Palestine? After all, Jesus grew tired, but God doesn’t get tired; Jesus sometimes didn’t know things, [...]
Bill Pratt | February 16, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt For each of us there is one person who we always forgive every time they do something wrong. There is one person who we always give the benefit of the doubt. There is one person who we always judge with their intentions in mind rather than just their actions. There is [...]
Bill Pratt | January 20, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt We pick up from part 1 of this post to see why Paul could not have invented a version of Christianity foreign to Jesus’ teachings. McFarland continues making his case: The point is this: the key teachings of the Gospel (Jesus is the sinless Son of God; He died for our [...]
Bill Pratt | January 18, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently I’ve run across people who believe that the apostle Paul effectively hijacked Jesus’ teachings and invented most of what we today call Christianity. Even though this seems to be a view with few advocates, it is still an important charge that is being made. How do we answer this question? [...]
Darrell | December 28, 2009
Post Author: Darrell The LDS Church teaches that Baptism is required for entrance into The Celestial Kingdom (Heaven). They often cite Christ’s conversation with Nicodemus in John chapter 3 as evidence to support their position. However, a closer look at this conversation does not in fact support the Mormon view. Let’s go through this conversation verse by [...]
Bill Pratt | December 5, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt The usual story about why Jesus’ birthday is celebrated on Dec. 25 is that Christians were trying to convert a Roman pagan festival into a Christian festival. But it seems this theory may not be true. Andrew McGowan, professor of early Christian history, has written a fascinating article which links the [...]
