Introduction

What tends to be your typical reaction when you are faced with questions that challenge your faith, which hit us from various different angles? If it is anything less than what the apostle Peter exhorts, "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope you have" (1 Peter 3:15), then, I strongly recommend that you take this 8-week course.

Implicit Evidence for God’s Existence from General Revelation

The great philosopher Immanuel Kant once quipped, “The starry sky above me and the moral law within me.” That sure sounds like he had God’s general revelation in mind that has produced implicit evidence in favor of God’s existence, which can be articulated through teleological, cosmological and moral arguments.

Exclusivity of Christ and Religious Pluralism

In places where you work or study, likely surrounded by educated and culturally-sensitive people, if you break from religious pluralism (as in “all religions lead to the same God”), they will likely see you as a narrow-minded, unenlightened person. Regardless of whether the Christian faith is true, this line of pluralistic thinking is an insult to all religions that, at the core, are established on the premise of “either/or”, not “both/and.” Once we square that away, we are ready to recognize how the Christian faith differs greatly from world religions.

Responding to the Claim that Biblical Inerrancy* is Bogus

(*I am not defending inerrancy defined with Western bias such as demanding numeric exactness.)

Having recognized that the modern translation of the Bible is based on copies of the original that contain variants (i.e., changes)—which is a problem—this study seeks to show how textual criticism can determine what the original wording was amid several variants. As a result, I hope to demonstrate that today’s New Testament is a reliable copy of the original autograph of the Word of God.  

Why No Other Books Besides 27 Were Included in the New Testament?

A character in the famed novel, The Da Vinci Code, claims that “more than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament.” Apparently, since only four gospels made the cut, what happened to the other seventy-six, most of which were known as the Gnostic gospels. How come they were deemed unfit to be included in the New Testament? While some have suggested a sinister plot concocted by the Early Church to exclude the Gnostic gospels, the truth is not that difficult to see. So, can we have the confidence that only the right books made into the New Testament?  

Apologetics in Today’s World Amid Volatile Sociocultural Issues

How to Navigate through Anti-Racism: Two Main Questions

Any belief that goes against the universality of the effects of sin on all humans, both individually and collective, needs to be countered because it affects both the understanding and the reception of the gospel. With that being said, two larger questions are raised: first, are White people always oppressors and Black people always oppressed? Another question raised along that line is who, in fact, is responsible for slavery from its very outset? The works of Ibram X. Kendi, a leading antiracist, are consulted to find the answer. Second, is it true that the colonists fought against the British to protect the institution of slavery, as Nikole Hannah-Jones asserts in her The 1619 Project?

Transgenderism: What is This Really About?

I read Women, Men and Society, “a best-selling textbook” at the collegiate level “that looks at gender” to find out whether there is any biological condition that could justify transgenderism on physical grounds. I share my findings here. After that, I establish the importance of several legitimate matters related to gender, and how those issues have little to do with biological sex.   

Evolution: A Question This Was Never Meant to Answer and Still Hasn’t

Darwinian evolution is a settled matter to most people, and anyone who raises doubts about it will surely get the look of ‘are you for real’. But I am afraid that many people have not heard what leading evolutionary biologists, Richard Dawkins and his colleague Mark Ridley, have admitted about the origin of life and the origin of complex life, respectively. And as long as these foundational matters are not answered adequately by Darwinian evolution, it would be foolhardy for believers to give up on Genesis 1:27 that says, “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Darwinian evolution goes beyond biology; it also encroaches upon one’s faith and worldview. It is not without reason that Dawkins once confessed, “Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”