Apologetics
How Reliable were the Early Church’s Oral Traditions?
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, New Testament
Topics: Biblical Reliability
How reliable were the early church’s oral traditions? In terms of assessing the reliability of the Gospels, this is an extremely important question. First century Jewish culture was what scholars today would call an “orally…
Can God Make a Rock So Big that Even God Cannot Lift It?
Category: Guest Contributor
Tags: Apologetics, Omnipotence
Article by Dan Kent The moment you confess your belief in God, I have found, some clever fella will emerge from the crowd to stand before you and ask: “Can God make a rock so…
Do All Roads Lead to God?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, Christianity, Debate, God, Jesus, Reasoning, Theology
Topics: Christology, Death and Salvation
First, if it’s really true that Jesus is the way to Father and that no one comes to the Father except through him, (Jn 14:6) then it seems that no other religious leader or religious…
Satan and the Corruption of Nature: Seven Arguments
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Creation Care, Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
Man…trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law – Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrek’d against his creed” —Tennyson, In Memoriam Tennyson nailed it. We trust that God is…
9 Reasons Faith ≠ Certainty
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt, Faith, Religious Idolatry
Topics: Faith & Doubt
One of the things that Christians typically believe in and that I’ve struggled with a great deal is the concept of faith. Like most Christians, I once assumed a person’s faith is as strong as…
Is the Book of Acts Reliable?
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Essay, New Testament
Topics: Biblical Reliability
(Note: We apologize that certain German vowels didn’t translate onto this site). Introduction The book of Acts is of critical importance in the contemporary debate about the historical Jesus. The reason for this is straightforward….
Podcast: Dear Greg: My Husband is Anti-Theist, What Should I Do?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Doubt, Marriage
A godly house with an unbelieving spouse. Greg discusses unbelieving partners. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0418.mp3
The Point of the Book of Job
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Essay, Old Testament, Problem of Evil
Topics: The Problem of Evil
The point of the book of Job is to teach us that the mystery of evil is a mystery of a war-torn and unfathomably complex creation, not the mystery of God’s all-controlling will. Given how…
Podcast: Can We Really Trust the Apostle Paul?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Paul
Greg on why we can trust Paul. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0273.mp3
Podcast: How Can We Be Confident in Christianity With SO Many Other Religions in the World?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics
Greg considers the abundant religious perspectives available to us, defends faith in Christ, and considers whether agnosticism is appropriate—all in less that 6 mind-bending minutes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0259.mp3
Was Jesus “Crazy”?
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Apologetics, Fully Human
Topics: Apologetics, Jesus: Lord or Legend
Article by Dan Kent “Do you believe I’m the messiah,” the man asked, his voice part tenor, part nasal-congestion. He rubbed his robe collar between his thumb and index finger. This detail sticks in my…
Podcast: What if Science Proved Jesus Did Not Rise From the Dead?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Atheism, Science
Greg responds to an accusation from Richard Dawkins and considers a hypothetical situation where scientists prove that Jesus did not rise from the dead. He also confesses which worldview he would adopt if he were…
Podcast: How Do I Share Jesus Without Sounding Weird?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Evangelism
Greg discusses sharing Jesus with non-believers. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0068.mp3
Why Did It Take SO Long for God to Reveal Himself in Jesus?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Apologetics, Jesus, Revelation
Greg talks about why it took God so long to reveal himself in Jesus. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0048b.mp3
Why Trust the Bible?
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Bible, Biblical Authority
Topics: Biblical Reliability
A skeptic might point out that the proof regarding the authority of the Bible that we discussed in the previous post depends upon the Bible to prove its own inspiration. This might work for people…
Why Believe the Virgin Birth Accounts?
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Jesus, Reliability of the Gospels
Some skeptics claim that the story of the virgin birth of Jesus is derived from similar stories from pagan literature. While I won’t address here the details of the various parallels that some use to…
Is Jesus Really God?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, Jesus, Jesus' Divinity, Letters from a Skeptic, Miracles, Resurrection
Topics: Christology, Jesus: Lord or Legend
While it is true that Jesus Himself never comes out and explicitly says He is God in the Gospels, He is everywhere portrayed in terms that lead us to conclude to the same thing. He…
By Chance or By God
Category: General
Tags: Apologetics, Evolution, God, Letters from a Skeptic
pure9 via Compfight Is the world here by chance? Are we a product of an impersonal force that got the ball rolling and then history came about in what could be described as an “accident”? …
Is God Personal?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, God, Letters from a Skeptic, Love
Topics: Attributes and Character
Hamed Saber via Compfight How can we trust that God is personally involved in our lives? Are our seemingly “small” lives significant enough for God to get involved when you consider the vastness of all…
Why Doesn’t God Make Himself Obvious?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Apologetics, Doubt, Free Will, God, Letters from a Skeptic
Topics: Attributes and Character, Hearing God, Prayer
Why is faith so difficult? Why isn’t God more obvious? Why doesn’t God come out and provide irrefutable proof that he is God so that there is no more doubt? Greg’s father raised such questions…