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mid-week apologetics booster (12-29-2022)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: We could put it this way: The shadows prove the sunshine. There can be sunshine without shadows, but there can’t be shadows without sunshine. In other words, there can be good without evil, but there can’t be evil without good; and there can’t be objective good without God. So evil may show there’s a devil out there, but it can’t disprove God. Evil actually boomerangs back to show that God exists. – Frank Turek Now, here are your weekly links:

A Parent’s Guide to the 5 Skeptics Who Want to Shame Your Kids for Being Christian: https://www.str.org/w/a-parent-s-guide-to-the-5-skeptics-who-want-to-shame-your-kids-for-being-christian
Rubber Crutches – Everyone has a crutch. Will yours hold you up? When people ask me, “Isn’t Christ just a crutch?” I have a simple reply. I tell them, “You’re right. Christ is a crutch. But you’ve asked the wrong question.” No one makes fun of a lame person who uses a crutch. So the real question is, “Am I lame; am I crippled?” because crippled people need crutches. The fact is, everybody leans on something. As a Christian I lean on Jesus, because He’s a crutch that can hold me. What about you?: https://www.str.org/w/rubber-crutches
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer explains intelligent design for Prager University | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/12/28/2022-the-year-in-review-for-evolution-vs-intelligent-design/
Tract: Are Roman Catholics Christians? This is a 23 page tract that examines Roman Catholic beliefs in light of Scripture: https://chick.com/products/tract?stk=71&ue=d
Is it wrong to have pictures of Jesus? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/pictures-of-Jesus.html
St. Augustine Was a Young-Earth Creationist | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/calvin-smith/2021/07/12/st-augustine-young-earth-creationist/
Stephen C. Meyer and Marcus Ross lecture on the Cambrian explosion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2022/12/23/stephen-c-meyer-and-marcus-ross-lecture-on-the-cambrian-explosion-9/
Nigeria has before it a crucial opportunity to step out as an international leader by abolishing once and for all its Sharia blasphemy law – in spite of clear-cut evidence of mass human rights atrocities, the U.S. government remains silent, failing to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern. Between January 2021 and March 2022, more than 6,000 Christians were targeted and killed in Nigeria. In May of this year, Christian student Deborah Yakubu was stoned to death and her body burned in Sokoto State, Nigeria, after classmates deemed her WhatsApp messages blasphemous.: https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/23/as-christians-face-death-sentences-nigerian-court-can-and-should-overturn-its-dangerous-blasphemy-law/
How to T.R.A.I.N. Christian Students (Rather than Teach Them) | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-to-t-r-a-i-n-christian-students-rather-than-teach-them/
How are Christians treated in communist, atheist China? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2021/04/13/how-are-christians-treated-in-communist-atheist-china/
Should Christians Ever Offend Anyone? | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/christians-should-never-offend-anyone/
The Three Ds of Tolerance | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/the-three-ds-of-tolerance/
Jehovah: Was the name removed from the New Testament? | Carm.org: https://carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses/was-the-name-jehovah-removed-from-the-new-testament-does-it-matter/
Robert Gagnon debates gay activist Jayne Ozanne on Bible vs homosexuality | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2020/04/26/robert-gagnon-debates-gay-activist-jayne-ozanne-on-bible-vs-homosexuality-6/
Apologetics Resources for Alabama Baptist – Tactical Faith: https://tacticalfaith.com/apologetics/apologetics-resources-for-alabama-baptist/
Who Was Athanasius?: https://www.ligonier.org/posts/who-was-athanasius
Why the Bible is Reliable Think Divinely: https://thinkdivinely.com/why-the-bible-is-reliable/
How I Got into Apologetics (And How You Can Too!): https://crossexamined.org/how-i-got-into-apologetics-and-how-you-can-too/
Jesus Created The Universe: The Deity Of Christ | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/jesus-created-the-universe-the-deity-of-christ/
Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+mzeycxu
There are a lot of charges brought up against the God of the Bible; perhaps one of the most common is, “If God is supposed to be loving, how could He send people to Hell just because they didn’t worship Him?” It’s implied that it’s deeply unjust for God to judge sin at all, and even worse to do so by sending the sinners to a place of eternal punishment. However, these critics often profess they don’t believe in the God they are accusing, and also deny any objective standard of right and wrong anyway. Sometimes believers also struggle with this question, wondering how God could condemn someone who never heard of Jesus and so never had a chance to believe in Him, for example. The question of Hell is not an appealing one even for people who affirm its existence. No one likes the idea of many people suffering judgment in the life to come. But the ‘Good News’ of the Gospel requires that there be ‘Bad News’—salvation in Jesus Christ would not bring glory to God if there were actually nothing to be saved from. So it’s important to be able to give an answer, even in the case of a subject that no one particularly likes contemplating.: https://creation.com/hell
Teaching Apologetics to the Next Generation | Christian Research Institute: https://www.equip.org/articles/teaching-apologetics-next-generation/
Diagnose before You Treat – Stand to Reason – What should you say to your non-Christian friend who rejects Christianity? In this episode, Alan explains an important principle to help him navigate this situation: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+8wzpswd
What Are the Top Ten Problems with Darwinian Evolution? THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://wp.me/pCHEG-2pX
Is Marks Gospel an Early Memoir of the Apostle Peter? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-marks-gospel-an-early-memoir-of-the-apostle-peter/
Ready to Answer – sometimes Christians, armed with all the information they can get, assault unbelievers with what they know and effectively blow them out of the water. They have won the argument but lost the soul, and that is not the objective. Even though we may know a great deal, we should present the information with love and humility.: https://harvest.org/resources/devotion/ready-to-answer/
Is The Bible Full Of Contradictions? 6 Quick Responses | Reasons for Jesus: https://reasonsforjesus.com/is-the-bible-full-of-contradictions-6-quick-responses/
Evolutionists Sense Life’s Design and Deify Nature | The Institute for Creation Research: https://www.icr.org/article/evolutionists-sense-design-deify-nature
Rapid Response: The Gospels Are Unreliable | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/rapid-response-the-gospels-are-unreliable/
Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes: Why You Can Be Confident We Have the Original Bible Texts: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/01/why-you-can-be-confident-we-have.html?m=1
What Does the Bible Say about Masturbation?: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/what-does-the-bible-say-about-masturbation.html
Problem 9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles to Explain the Biogeographical Distribution of Many Species | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2015/02/problem_9_neo-d/

By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. Psalms 33:6-9 Blessings to you all