So, im sure you all are aware of the God of the Gaps fallacy. It’s where you plug in God until you have a scientific explanation. Like in the ancient times, they didn’t understand thunder so they attributed it to Thor. Now that we know how it works, we dust our hands of the Ancient Greek God. The apologetics I heard on YouTube was mostly the ray comfort version — “look at the sun, the moon, the stars, the human eye, etc…” and im not bashing Ray at all. Honestly I liked that approach because it made everything seem so magical. But obviously we have (or will have in the future) a scientific exp ..read more

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I hear this all the time from atheists and other critics, but I think that it's untrue; there IS evidence for God. An analogy: The Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, but that doesn't mean that there is no evidence for the Steady State universe or the cyclical universe. It just means that the Big Bang Theory explains more of the data/evidence better than those other two. The same data/evidence is used by all three. Similarly, Christians, atheists, and other critics all see the same data/evidence, however Christians offer an explanation but atheists, and other critics usually do not. The data ..read more

I have struggled with this for a while now. Mark says John the Baptist was already imprisoned when Jesus met Peter and Andrew fishing, but John says that John the Baptist was already imprisoned, and told Andrew to follow Jesus, also to fetch Simon Peter. This looks like a direct contradiction, and I’m really struggling. submitted by /u/FantasticLibrary9761 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

My professor in OT-studies applies a very critical and “naturalistic” understanding of scripture. He argues that monotheism came up only in exile, as well as most of the OT itself. His points are that throughout the OT it’s obviously taught that there are many gods and even Israel would have different ones, calling them JHWH, El, Adonai, Adonai Zebaoth and so on, as well as that the other nations always are described as having actual gods, being weaker than the God of Israel. My objections are that it would be very counterintuitive for Israel to come up with Monotheism in exile, as the other ..read more

Jesus is not portrayed/presented as the most high God or God at all in the gospel of Mark. How are you, as a Christian apologist, going to respond to this? I'll look forward to respond to all I can. My argument is that, instead of Jesus being the self-existent God, Jesus is the Messianic Son of man in Mark. This idea of Messianic son of man goes back to the Old Testament as well as the Enochic Literature, which shows a very similar view of the Messianic Son of man as we see in Mark (Son of man coming with the angels or that the son of man sitting on some throne) is very similar to the one in ..read more

Why does God need to be glorificated? Well it seems like he needs to... I get why he deserves glorification & worship. But it seems like he needed both of them bc a big reason for creating us, is to be worshipped by us. I know he does not need us. Yet he created us to be glorified through the Sons grace for us (humankind). To be glorified through the forgiveness the Son offers. Yes he deserves glorification & our worship for who He is. But why was His glorification so important to Him that he created Humans & was prepared to suffer for it. Was prepared to suffer for His own glorif ..read more

For example. He says he used to be a big time Christian until he studied religion as an academic, and he saw how bad it actually was and renounced his religion. For example, he has a book all about slavery in the Bible, and he uses his scholarly exegesis of the texts, and of texts from the surrounding nations at the same time, and he shows how you can beat your slave as long as you want unless it doesn’t die, and that you can own them as property and do whatever you want to them sexually. And they aren’t allowed to leave, ever, that is if they come from the other nations. He also updates the ..read more

Not sure if this has been shared in here before but this has really help me solidify the idea/concept of God submitted by /u/BigBreadBreaka [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

What is one text or texts that You feel should be brought up more when defending the Deity of the Son?, i think John 8:24, Jude 5 and Luke 1:76 should be used more in Deity of jesus i'm in scripture submitted by /u/Lemon-Aid917 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more