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mid-week apologetics booster (11-3-2022)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: So many young Christians are ill prepared to face the moral, intellectual, relational, and spiritual challenges that confront them daily. They don’t have an anchor to help ground them amid the cultural chaos, and as a result, many find their faith shipwrecked on the shores of our increasingly secular culture. Here is a stark reality: if we do not consciously equip young Christians with a biblical worldview, they will unconsciously absorb the ideas of today’s culture. – Sean McDowell and J. Warner Wallace (from book “So the Next Generation Will Know”) Now, here are your weekly links:

Maggie DeJong | Alliance Defending Freedom – In the United States, colleges and universities have traditionally been bastions of free speech. People with diverse religious, political, and philosophical beliefs have been able to come together for a free and robust debate in the marketplace of ideas in university classrooms, lecture halls, quads, and dorms. But universities such as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) have grown more hostile toward religious, political, and philosophical beliefs that university officials or students disfavor. Such is the case with Maggie DeJong.: https://adflegal.org/article/southern-illinois-university-silenced-student-maggie-dejong-her-harmful-beliefs
Breaking Down the Importance of Apologetics Welcome to Rob Lundberg.org: https://roblundberg.org/2022/10/30/breaking-down-the-importance-of-apologetics/
Search for Habitable Planets as Design Detection | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2022/11/search-for-habitable-planets-is-a-design-detection-exercise/
Why I Know the Story of Jesus Wasn’t Changed Over Time | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-i-know-the-story-of-jesus-wasnt-changed-over-time/
How to Perfectly Know the Existence of God : Strange Notions: https://strangenotions.com/how-to-perfectly-know-the-existence-of-god/
Answering the Galileo Myth: https://www.str.org/w/answering-the-galileo-myth
Why Apologetics Has a Bad Name | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-apologetics-has-a-bad-name
Don’t Be Harvey Weinstein. Or Tim Murphy. Or Karl Barth – The Stream: https://stream.org/dont-harvey-weinstein/
50 Alleged Bible Contradictions Refuted | The Domain for Truth: https://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/50-alleged-bible-contradiction-refuted/
Starting God-Conversations: Take the Class-Photo Approach: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2016/11/starting-god-conversations-take-class.html
Developing An Apologetic That Works Faith & Self Defense: https://faithandselfdefense.com/2017/11/21/developing-an-apologetic-that-works/
Can death be abolished?: https://creation.com/can-death-be-abolished
The Jesus Blog: The Five Most Common Fallacies about the Life of Jesus: http://historicaljesusresearch.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-five-most-common-fallacies-about.html
What Really Happened At The Council Of Nicaea | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/what-really-happened-at-the-council-of-nicea/
The Intellectual Persecution of the Church Credo House Ministries: https://credohouse.org/blog/the-intellectual-persecution-of-the-church
Handling an Objection: We Can’t Trust Eyewitness Testimony! THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/handling-an-objection-we-cant-trust-eyewitness-testimony-4/
Why talking to strangers can make us smarter – BBC Future – though this is not apologetics related, it discusses subjects that are relevant to apologetics and evangelism. Here is a snippet: What I learned was this: we miss a lot by being afraid of strangers. Talking to strangers under the right conditions is good for us, good for our neighborhoods, our towns and cities, our nations, and our world. Talking to strangers can teach you things, deepen you, make you a better citizen, a better thinker, and a better person. It’s a good way to live.: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221026-why-talking-to-strangers-can-make-us-happier
The worst mistake you can make when defending the Christian worldview | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/11/02/the-worst-mistake-you-can-make-when-defending-the-christian-worldview-6/
Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/Abraham-Isaac.html

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus’ brothers said to him, “You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.” For even his own brothers did not believe in him. Therefore Jesus told them, “The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come.” Having said this, he stayed in Galilee. – John 7:1-9 Blessings to you all