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 | July 9, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Once a person is justified (saved), can they lose their salvation? This seems like an important question, but there are differing views within Christendom. Calvinists, both moderate and 5-point, affirm eternal security. Eternal security is the idea that once a person is truly saved, he can never lose his salvation. Calvinists [...]
Bill Pratt | June 21, 2009
The classical Judeo-Christian belief has always been that God is all-powerful, or omnipotent. He can do whatever is actually possible to do, but not what is actually impossible to do. We previously covered this topic in “Can God Make a Rock So Big He Can’t Lift It?” But there are some who deny that God [...]
Bill Pratt | May 7, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The sixth way is that Jesus Claimed to Be God by Requesting Prayer in His Name. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. Nobody before Jesus, among Hebrew prophets, ever insisted that people pray in [...]
Bill Pratt | May 3, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The fifth way is that Jesus Claimed to Have Equal Authority with God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. In the New Testament, Jesus places his words on an equal footing with God’s. Following [...]
Bill Pratt | April 28, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The fourth way is that Jesus Claimed to Be God by Accepting Worship. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. The Old Testament clearly forbids worship of anyone except God (Ex. 20:1–5; Deut. 5:6–9). The [...]
Bill Pratt | April 24, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The third way is that Jesus Claimed to Be Messiah-God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. There are indications in the Old Testament that the prophesied Messiah would be divine. When Jesus, therefore, confirmed that [...]
Bill Pratt | April 22, 2009
There are at least six ways that Jesus claimed to be God. The second way is that Jesus Claimed to Be Equal with God. Again, I will draw heavily from Norman Geisler’s Volume 2 of his Systematic Theology series. Jesus claimed the prerogatives of God several times in the gospels. He said to a paralytic, [...]
