There is an illustration that’s often used by Christian apologetics to help explain how we can trust the integrity of the Bible. It’s called Aunt Sally’s Recipe, and you can read the full version here, but I’m going to give a quick summary below, and then I’d like to explore the error with that illustration. […]
Scripture
Remember that one teacher you had that would ask a question but not give you the answer? Something like, “Why is your reflection in a mirror backwards left to right but not up and down?” And then you and your friends would be thinking about it all day until you came up with theories and […]
God’s Chosen People
This one will be a little short, but it’s worth mentioning for much of the other topics to make sense. Who are God’s chosen people? If you said “The Jews”, you wouldn’t be alone. In fact, if you do a quick Google search, that’s the answer you’ll get. However, that’s not entirely correct. If you […]
Jews Reject Jesus
Perhaps you’ve heard this before… God wanted the Jewish people to be His bride, but they rejected Jesus, so God chose the Church to be His bride instead. Where does this idea come from? Let’s do a quick little history… Jesus was crucified, then rose again, then He met with His disciples and gave them […]
10 Commandments
I hope I can show you something interesting about each of the 10 Commandments. I’ll start with the reason for their existence. Each of the commandments was given for the making of a civilization, but each commandment is as relevant and beneficial to the individual as it is to the society that follows it. Consider […]
The Fourth Commandment
I wanted to take a minute to say more about the fourth commandment that I didn’t want to try to fit into a post about all of the commandments. God gave us a list of 10 rules to observe, one of which is to remember the Sabbath day and keep it set apart; rest on […]
Aunt Sally’s Recipe
Below is an illustration that is commonly used to explain how, even with all the copies and missing segments, we can be assured that the New Testament we hold today is the same one the early church had. My rebuttal to this argument is found here. Let me illustrate how such a test can be […]