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mid-week apologetics booster (7-20-2023)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: It was to God that David carried his sorrow: it was to God that David confessed his sin. Observe, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for he counteth the hairs of your head. – Charles Spurgeon Now, here are your weekly links:

11 Things You Think Are in the Bible, But Really Aren’t – this showed up on my feed from Windows and I looked at it. I would say, this information is partially correct, a lot of things it reports are truly not in the Bible, however other things (in the world, but not of the world) are definitely in the Bible, if not the exact wording, definitely the concept is accurately found in the Bible: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/11-things-you-think-are-in-the-bible-but-really-aren-t/ss-AA1dPyEQ
ANOTHER FATAL FLAW OF NATURALISM AND EVOLUTION: http://mannsword.blogspot.com/2017/12/another-fatal-flaw-of-naturalism-and.html
The tyranny of ‘tolerance’ ,- One of the biggest battles we face concerns the way we use words. One of the most glaring examples is the word ‘tolerance’. Not long ago, this meant ‘bearing or putting up with someone or something not especially liked’. However, now the word has been redefined to ‘all values, all beliefs, all lifestyles, all truth claims are equal’.1 Denying this makes a person ‘intolerant’, and thus worthy of contempt.: https://creation.com/the-tyranny-of-tolerance
Blood Clotting Remains a Mousetrap for Darwin | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2020/12/blood-clotting-remains-a-mousetrap-for-darwin/
God Was Canceling People before It Was Cool: https://www.str.org/w/god-was-canceling-people-before-it-was-cool
“Where Do Morals Come From?” by Mark Spence – YouTube: https://youtu.be/ANSPIz4TMhw
Why does God allow cancer? …in 90 seconds! – YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ti-anhyVtOs
America: A Christian or a Secularist Nation? – WallBuilders: https://wallbuilders.com/america-christian-secularist-nation/
New Testament Bible Reliability by Daniel Wallace, PhD – YouTube: https://youtu.be/6lEmch2OAhs
Former Muslim Nabeel Qureshi Describes Encounter with 1st Christian Who Could Answer His Objections – YouTube: https://youtu.be/-BMS8Nufy1k
Believing the Gospels Is Different Than Trusting the Gospel | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/believing-the-gospels-is-different-than-trusting-the-gospel/
The breath of life. – The respiratory system has many distinctive design features, which show forth the providence of God. Breathing also illustrates our human vulnerability and complete dependence upon God. One easy experiment to show this is to try to hold our breath. For most of us, air hunger becomes painful well within a minute, and we would die in just a few more minutes if completely deprived of air. So, our breathing apparatus is one of our most vital systems-absolutely necessary to sustain us from moment to moment. How does it work?: https://creation.com/the-breath-of-life
Who was the most influential person in history? It was a person who never led an army, never held office, never wrote a book, never traveled more than 200 miles from where he was born. Yet today, he’s the center of humanity. How so? Because Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. If there was no resurrection, how could that life be the history’s most influential life? Join Frank as he presents evidence that Jesus rose from the dead, and reminds us, with a graphic account of the passion, the kind of suffering Jesus had to endure to buy our freedom.: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/media/mi/+c8t5ywz
Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? When dialoguing with skeptics, one phrase you can expect to see repeated time and time again is this: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” On the surface, this may seem quite reasonable. After all, how can we make an extraordinary claim if we don’t have the proper evidence to back it up? Upon closer examination, however, this statement turns out to be a clever sleight-of-hand; what counts as ‘extraordinary’ is subjective, and entirely dependent on your starting assumptions!: https://creation.com/extraordinary-claims
George Washington and Religion – A Christian Not a Deist – Kerby Anderson presents a compelling argument for the view that George Washington was a devoted Christian rather than a deist. He points to Washington’s insistence on the importance of services for his soldiers, his personal church attendance, his prayer life and his commitment to the spiritual upbringing of his godchildren.: https://probe.org/george-washington-and-religion/
Can You Pass the Test? – Forensic Faith by J. Warner Wallace – Are You Ready to Make the Case for What You Believe As a Christian? The Forensic Faith Readiness Review is a simple tool to help you determine if you’re “ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you” (1Peter3:15). This seven-question survey is designed to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses as a Christian Case Maker. Download it now, print it out and take the twenty-one minute test.: https://forensicfaithbook.com/can-you-pass-the-test/
A Look at Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions – YouTube – In this clip we discuss some of the material from the book Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions. We discuss issues of logic and some of the ways we can ask the right questions when we dialogue with others.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMp3lR0SDKU
A Christian Perspective on Pagan and Secular Belief Systems – Reasons to Believe: https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/reflections/a-christian-perspective-on-pagan-and-secular-belief-systems
7 Reasons the Old Testament is Divine | Sean McDowell: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/7-reasons-the-old-testament-is-divine
The Pro-Life View Is the Tolerant View: https://www.str.org/w/the-pro-life-view-is-the-tolerant-view
10 Biblical Reasons Jesus Is God | Answers in Genesis: https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/jesus-is-god/10-biblical-reasons-jesus-is-god/
Amazing admission – Professor Richard Lewontin (1929–2021), a geneticist (and self-proclaimed Marxist), was certainly one of the world’s leaders in evolutionary biology. He wrote this very revealing comment (the italics were in the original). It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation-regardless of whether or not the facts support it.: https://creation.com/amazing-admission-lewontin-quote
Does purgatory deny the sufficiency of Christ’ sacrifice? | carm.org: https://carm.org/roman-catholicism/does-purgatory-deny-the-sufficiency-of-christs-sacrifice/
A Beginner’s Guide to the Kalam Cosmological Argument – Solas: https://www.solas-cpc.org/a-beginners-guide-to-the-kalam-cosmological-argument/
The Necessity of Apologetics: A Plan to Implement – Crossings Camps: https://gocrossings.org/necessity-apologetics-plan-implement/
Think Kids Can’t Handle An Apologetics Conference? We Just Did it… And Here’s How it Went! – Mama Bear Apologetics: https://mamabearapologetics.com/kids-apologetics-conference/
How to Align Our Careers with Our Faith – Thomas Nelson Bibles – Our faith and identity in Christ encompasses and influences every aspect of our lives, including the long-term decisions we make in our careers.: https://www.thomasnelsonbibles.com/blog/how-do-we-align-our-careers-with-our-faith-in-christ/
Is there proof for the inspiration of the Bible? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/proof-inspiration-Bible.html
Christians are hypocrites and that makes Christianity false: http://www.newyorkapologetics.com/christians-are-hypocrites-whattaya-do/
Is the New Testament Text Reliable?: https://www.str.org/w/is-the-new-testament-text-reliable-
Walt Russell explains how to read the Bible effectively | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2020/05/31/walt-russell-explains-how-to-read-the-bible-effectively-6/
Over 1,000 Scientists Openly Dissent From Evolution Theory – The New American: https://thenewamerican.com/over-1-000-scientists-openly-dissent-from-evolution-theory/

So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law — a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Matthew 10:26-39 Blessings to you all