Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues ‘no air exists’ but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such ‘breathing’ impossible. They are breathing God’s air all the time they are arguing against him.
Anniversary of Aum Shinrikyo cult’s sarin gas attack
In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members, the Associated Press writes.
This destructive religious cult had a lengthy history of crimes, but was nevertheless defended by naive cult apologists more concerned about ‘religious freedom’ than about the victims of such cults.
Japanese police in December 2010 confirmed that a total of 6,583 people fell victim to the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and seven other crimes committed by the Aum Shinrikyo cult.
Christianity is captivating because it presents the most wonderful and accurate description, and explanation, of reality.
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Theologian Alister McGrath, in an interview with Apologetics 315
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How can Christians communicate what we believe without being denigrating or inflammatory?
Those of us who are Christians, whenever we ponder how to act or speak, naturally wonder, “What would Jesus do?” In this case, how did the Prince of Peace communicate with those with whom he had deep differences? How did the one who described himself as “gentle and lowly of heart” speak to his co-religionists in an Abrahamic faith when they found themselves divided over fundamental issues? Maybe Jesus can give us guidance in these days when Muslims and Christians often look at each other in terror and fear.
The fact of the matter is that people who believe equally in the authority and inerrancy of Scripture sometimes disagree in their interpretation of some parts of that Scripture. We know God’s Word is not wrong, but we might be. God is infallible; we are not. We are not free from sin and ignorance yet. We still see through a glass darkly. In hermeneutical and theological disputes, we need to make an exegetical case, and we need to examine the case of those who disagree with us. It proves nothing to make the bare assertion: “We believe the Bible and you don’t.
How do you respond to someone who thinks truth is relative?
The standards by which most Christian media are judged would exclude many books from the biblical canon
