There Is No Rise Unless He Is Risen
By Alex McElroy
If you are creating a building, the structure is important, but the foundation is most important. If a rock goes through the window, it can be replaced. If there is a leak in ...
Why the Gospel of Thomas isn’t in the Bible
By Ryan Leasure
There’s a common refrain among liberal scholars that says the church suppressed dozens of Gospels. The reason they say? It’s because those books share scandalous information ...
Respectfully Engaging with Hindus
By Mikel Del Rosario
Let’s talk about respectfully engaging with Hindus. Why? More than a billion people around the world say they’re Hindus. That’s about 15 percent of the world. So if you ...
Is It Biblical to Have an Evidential Faith?
By Luke Nix
Introduction
Is biblical faith blind or reasonable? This is one of the most hotly debated questions between believers and unbelievers. While most who say that faith is blind are ...
What Christian Parents Should Learn from Marty Sampson Losing Faith
By Natasha Crain
My blog has been quiet since earlier this year because I was finishing my next book (Talking with Your Kids about Jesus; March 2020). Now that I’ve turned it into the publisher ...
Can We Be Good Without God?
By Ryan Leasure
This past weekend, two mass-scaled shootings transpired on American soil. El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio experienced unspeakable carnage. Two men, fueled by hatred for ...
How Do We Know The Truth Is Out There?
By Bob Perry
There are two kinds of truth. One depends on our opinion of things. This is called subjective truth. The other depends on the way the world actually is. This is called objective ...
An Argument From Cancer
By Robby Hall
Natasha Crain wrote a great article last year on what an apologist does when they believe they have cancer. Little did I know at the time that 6 months later, I would get the ...
God & Evil: A Rapid-Fire Response
By Timothy Fox
The problem of evil (pain or suffering) is probably the number one argument against the existence of God. While it is definitely not a problem that can be answered quickly and ...
Voltaire’s Prediction, Home, and the Bible Society: Truth or Myth? Further Evidence of Verification
By Daniel Merritt
Editor’s Note: Previously, we ran an article that featured Dr. Merritt’s research into the story concerning Voltaire’s prediction that the Bible would not be read in a ...
Yale computer science professor David Gelernter expresses doubts about Darwinism
By Wintery Knight
How did life begin?
I had to learn about David Gelernter when I was doing my Masters in computer science. We studied his book “Mirror Worlds”. A few weeks ago, I blogged ...
Safeguarding Yours from the Modern Cult of Experts
By Terrell Clemmons
[Although this essay was written at another time, Cross Examined considers its content to be current and relevant to share]
Few years ago, Current Biology, a research ...
No, The Argument from Miracles Has Not Been Debunked (Pt. 2)
By Erik Manning
Is the argument from miracles hopelessly fallacious? Stephen Woodford, AKA ‘Rationality Rules,’ believes so. In his popular YouTube video 'The Argument From Miracles-Debunked' ...
Responding to NY Times Article Saying the Concept of God is Incoherent
By J. Brian Huffling
In a NY Times article titled “A God Problem: Perfect. All-powerful. All-knowing. The idea of the deity most Westerners accept is actually not coherent,” Peter Atterton ...
What Every Apologist Needs to Know About 1 Peter 3:15
By Mikel Del Rosario
Rules of Engagement
1 Peter 3 is about Apologetics and Cultural Engagement
What should our interactions with people look like as ambassadors of Jesus? Peter talks about ...
What Biblical Books are Included in the Earliest Canonical Lists?
By Ryan Leasure
There are two opposing ways to view the history of the canon. One would be to believe that the church, in its entirety, uniformly accepted all twenty-seven books of the ...
Should Christians Abandon Social Media?
By Luke Nix
Introduction
With all of the recent news of various social media platforms purposefully hiding and censoring Christian and politically conservative content in the name of ...
There’s No Need To Apologize
By Alex McElroy
As an apologist, the most common joke I hear from Christians unfamiliar with Apologetics is, “do you go around apologizing to everyone?” In case you are wondering too, no, I ...
Handling Bible Questions You Can’t Answer
By Natasha Crain
During my Bible time with the kids, we turned to a story they hadn’t heard before – the passage from John 9 of Jesus healing the man born blind.
“…and then Jesus put mud on ...
We Live In A Beautiful World
By Bob Perry
In classical thinking, saying that something is beautiful is not a matter of subjective opinion. It’s a way to identify an objective feature of the world. We don’t construct ...
