Category: Reasons to believe

“In a world without God, everything is permitted.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a 19th Century Russian novelist, best known for Crime and Punishment. His final novel was The Brothers Karamazov, which tells the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his three sons, Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha.  Fyodor is a thoroughly selfish man, a sensualist openly

A few years ago I wrote a post entitled “Evidence for a Creator,” in which I argued that science demonstrates that the probability of our universe existing in its present form is astronomically small; and if the the odds of the universe “just happening” are exceptionally small, there is a

The science of near-death experiences is real. In the past fifteen years, there have been four peer-reviewed studies of near-death experiences published in scientific journals, including The Lancet, the leading medical journal in Great Britain. Collectively these four studies examine 3,500 near-death experiences. A near-death experience can occur when a

The 20th Century was one of the bloodiest in human history. The damage wrought in those years shook the faith of many. Yet God never abandons His people, and is often most active amidst the greatest storms. Consider God’s work amidst the storms of the 20th Century: July 28, 1914:

Richard Bauckham, in Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, makes a strong argument for the gospels, not as a product of oral tradition far removed from the apostles, but rather as eyewitness testimony from the apostles and disciples of Jesus. Consider these points: In some instances the

A reader of this blog mentioned to me that he was reading a book about Jesus where the author questioned the reliability of the gospels since the four evangelists were apologists. I’d like to address the reliability of the gospels in this post. Q. Were the gospel writers apologists? A.

A few years ago around Christmas time an editorial by Eric Metaxas appeared in The Wall Street Journal that caught my eye: “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God.” The editorial garnered 600,000 Facebook shares, and brought to the general public an awareness of the intersection of science and faith