Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: Christian Apologetics
When you hear people protest that the Christian gospel was all constructed, exaggerated or augmented centuries after the time Jesus Christ lived is said to have lived in, or when you hear cultists say that the facts have been changed many times over the centuries and you need to leave your church and join theirs, you should know that these claims and accusations are unfounded.
Is the New Testament and the Bible we now read completely different to what was originally written, so that we can't rely on it? This is the claim of skeptics and cults alike, but there are answers to their accusations, and very good ones.
It's common to hear people complain that the Bible has been changed many times over the years, so that it's unreliable. This is the way many people attempt to dismiss all that Scripture tells us, and sometimes to shut us up. The temptation for the undetermined believer is to then be silenced, or to abandon the testimony of Scripture and go it alone.
I sometimes look around at all the people living in our world, and wonder at their complete detachment from God. The majority, particularly in the Western world, go about their lives with no interest in knowing the God of the Bible. They're far more interested in what's for dinner tonight, or how to pay for that new car, or how to start up a relationship with that favored person of the contrary (or same) gender.
When you picked that box of cereal off the supermarket shelf out of the many varieties you could have chosen, were you employing your own freedom to choose, or was your selection determined long ago without your knowledge?
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 