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mid-week apologetics booster (7-27-2023)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper Now, here are your weekly links:

5 Views on “Women Keep Silent” (1 Cor 14:35-36): Women in Ministry part 11 – YouTube: https://youtu.be/3nPcu7RCVXY
How to develop resilience | George’s Journal – a look at some of the characters in the Bible and how they managed, by God’s grace and help, to get through the valleys in their lives.: https://georgesjournal.net/2023/07/21/how-to-develop-resilience/
A Megachurch Pastor Leaves His Faith (Key Lessons) – YouTube: https://youtu.be/GbfIupCq73s
Read Like a Christian: Five Principles for What and How | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/read-like-a-christian
What is the greatest sin? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/greatest-sin.html
Should You Use Someone’s Preferred Pronouns? – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/standtoreason/media/mi/+wpdn8xd
What does the Bible say about the pope / papacy? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/pope-papacy.html
4 Historical Facts that Prove Jesus Really Did Rise from the Dead – YouTube: https://youtu.be/RmKg62GDqF4
Discovering God the Way Sherlock Holmes Would: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2015/08/discovering-god-way-sherlock-holmes.html
Common Objection #35- “Why Didn’t God Create a World in Which Everyone Freely Chooses Him?”: http://truthbomb.blogspot.com/2018/07/common-objection-35-why-didnt-god.html
From Atheist to Christian at Yale – Dr. Paul Lim – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9TfkdgeFc
Why do men have nipples? | GotQuestions.org – The presence of nipples on males seems strange, given that males do not produce milk. Are these vestigial organs? Remnants of evolution? Examples of poor design? Actually, there are a couple of good reasons men have nipples.: https://www.gotquestions.org/why-do-men-have-nipples.html
What If They Don’t Believe the Bible? – YouTube – This video is part of a live Q&A with author and former devout Muslim Nabeel Qureshi on March 22, 2015 at Christ Community Chapel.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LXcYzF12Q
When Belief “That” Becomes Belief “In” | Cold Case Christianity – It’s one thing to believe “that” something is true, but it’s another thing to trust “in” this truth when push comes to shove.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/when-belief-that-becomes-belief-in/
Three Things Materialists Can’t Do Without | Evolution News: https://evolutionnews.org/2019/07/three-things-materialists-cant-do-without/
Want Gospel Opportunities? Embrace Opposition.: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/gospel-opportunities-opposition/
Handling an Objection: “How can Jesus be God when the Jewish Scriptures says God is not a man?” – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/handling-an-objection-how-can-jesus-be-god-when-the-jewish-scriptures-says-god-is-not-a-man-2/
Everything is Connected – Join Frank on a fascinating survey of history from 1453 to the Pilgrim to Thanksgiving with none other than historian Bill Federer. This episode for the Cross Examined podcast is packed with surprising historical data. Don’t miss it!: https://subsplash.com/crossexamined/lb/mi/+8mrcpnh
Why People Believe in Evolution | ChristianCourier.com – People do not believe in evolution because they have been led there by solid evidence. They are stampeded into the Darwinian community by superficial, emotional, and personal factors.: https://christiancourier.com/articles/why-people-believe-in-evolution
Nine Early Church Fathers Who Taught Jesus Is God – Many people think Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ in the fourth century, but a look at quotes from the early church fathers shows this is an egregious misrepresentation of the facts.: https://www.str.org/w/nine-early-church-fathers-who-taught-jesus-is-god
Four Reasons the New Testament Gospels Are Reliable (Free Bible Insert) | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/four-reasons-the-new-testament-gospels-are-reliable/
What Makes for an “Authentic” Christian? – Discipleship: https://www.christianity.com/jesus/following-jesus/discipleship/what-makes-for-an-authentic-christian.html
True Repentance, Real Change – Decision Magazine – What is repentance? It might be well to notice first what it is not. First, repentance is not penance. Penance is the voluntary suffering of punishment for sin and does not necessarily involve a change of character or conduct. People who lie on a bed of spikes or throw themselves headlong on the ground are doing penance, but this act does not mean that their guilt has been absolved.: https://decisionmagazine.com/true-repentance-real-change/
If Jesus Is God, Why Does He Call the Father “My God?” – When Jesus was dying on the cross, he cried, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me” (Matt. 27:46)? After Jesus resurrection from the dead, he appears to Mary Magdalene, and she immediately clings to Him. In response Jesus says to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God” (John 20:17; cf. Rev. 3:2, 12). In each case, Jesus explicitly calls the Father “my God.” Jehovah’s Witnesses conclude from these passages (and others like them) that Jesus cannot possibly be God.: https://www.str.org/w/if-jesus-is-god-why-does-he-call-the-father-my-god-
Three Possible Models for Cultural Engagement – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM – Given the current cultural climate, I have noticed that Christians are still struggling to figure out how to exactly engage the culture around them. In other words, should a Christian care about governmental laws? Should they be involved with politics? Should they be trying to impact legislation? Should Christians just pray and let God fight the battles around them? As for myself, I have invested plenty of time trying to engage the university. Allow me to go ahead and expand on this topic with three models for cultural engagement: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/three-possible-models-for-cultural-engagement/
William Lane Craig and James White debate Calvinism vs Molinism | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/07/22/william-lane-craig-and-james-white-debate-calvinism-vs-molinism-3/
The Real Reason Why Fewer Americans Think Religion Matters: https://townhall.com/columnists/jwarnerwallace/2018/12/30/the-real-reason-why-fewer-americans-think-religion-matters-n2538228
Skeptics say “we don’t know who wrote the gospels, but it wasn’t Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John”. They’re using a double standard. | by Erik Manning | Medium: https://eriknmanning.medium.com/skeptics-say-we-dont-know-who-wrote-the-gospels-but-it-wasn-t-matthew-mark-luke-or-john-c710546d003
The Challenge of History: An Interview with William Lane Craig | Popular Writings | Reasonable Faith – The most distinctive claim about Christianity in relation to other world religions is that Christianity says that God has revealed himself in history. As British theologian, Alan Richardson, has stated: “The Christian faith is bound up with certain happenings in the past, and if these happenings could be shown never to have occurred, or to have been quite different from the biblical-Christian account of them, then the whole edifice of Christian faith, life and worship would be found to have been built on sand.” At this time of Christmas, we celebrate the central event in world-history that God became man in Jesus Christ. Today this claim is under assault in a variety of ways. Some claim it’s a myth; others assert that it’s a meaningless statement because it is impossible to really know the past. AP asked William Lane Craig, Research Professor in Philosophy at Talbot Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, what he thought about these views.: https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/jesus-of-nazareth/the-challenge-of-history-an-interview-with-william-lane-craig
Why Isn’t the Church More Eagerly Embracing Apologetics? | Sean McDowell – apologetics training is vital for equipping this generation. Yet many churches resist. Why?: https://seanmcdowell.org/blog/why-isnt-the-church-more-eagerly-embracing-apologetics-heres-an-idea
An Atheist Explains the True Reason Religion Terrifies Him – Intellectual Takeout: https://intellectualtakeout.org/2018/06/an-atheist-explains-the-true-reason-religion-terrifies-him/
Mann’s Word: DOES THE EXISTENCE OF SO MANY RELIGIONS ARGUE AGAINST THEIR TRUTH CLAIMS? There are many religions and many Christian denominations. Do these facts diminish the truth claims of Christianity? Let’s start with the question of many religions. Skeptics argue that since there are many religions, which claim to have a monopoly on the truth, none can be true. Of course, this conclusion does not follow logically from the facts.: https://mannsword.blogspot.com/2018/08/does-existence-of-so-many-religions.html
Logical Fallacies or Fallacies in Argumentation | carm,org – There are different kinds of logical fallacies that people make in presenting their positions. Below is a list of some of the major fallacies. It is a good idea to be familiar with them so you can point them out in a discussion thereby focusing on the issues where they belong while exposing error.: https://carm.org/defending-the-faith/logical-fallacies-or-fallacies-in-argumentation/
John MacArthur Defies The Government On The Babylon Bee – YouTube – Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church fought Gavin Newsom and the State of California to keep his church open and won. He argued that the church was essential and there is a new movie about it: The Essential Church. The Babylon Bee shows him their award-winning journalism covering his exploits and tempts Pastor John with a beer.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRifKX_OvBM

Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’ ” Matthew 15:10-11 Blessings to you all