This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 2 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS It is generally assumed...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from article DA111 from the Christian Research Journal. ASSAULT ON THE OLD TESTAMENT The new criticism of the scriptural record is corrosive and categorical from beginning to end. It claims, for...
Read MoreClick here to listen to Hank’s response on the Bible Answer Man broadcast. Click here to listen to the entire Bible Answer Man broadcast with Lee Strobel. Hank Responds to Harvard’s Steven Pinker Click here to...
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Read MoreClick Here to listen When Mel Gibson produced The Passion of the Christ, a movie that substantially follows the contours of the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ death, he became the immediate subject of controversy....
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Read MoreWhile all Christians believe that the universe was created by God (Genesis1:1), opinions vary widely concerning when this creation took place. In the seventeenth century Catholic Archbishop James Ussher presented his biblical...
Read MoreThis article first appeared under the title “Christians Criticizing Christians: Can It Be Biblical?” in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 02 (1992). The full text of this article in PDF...
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt of Scott Klusendorf’s article “The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist.” This piece was excerpted particularly for its stance on Partial Birth Abortion. We can win if we force abortion...
Read MorePro-Life Arguments- SYNOPSIS The past few years have witnessed a stunning development in the pro-life movement. Many pro-life leaders now think we can make abortion rare by downplaying the moral question, “Does abortion...
Read MoreAnti-Abortion Arguments- THE GRADUALIST THESIS Those who defend the gradualist thesis, such as Daniel Callahan and Robert Wennberg,29 argue that the unborn entity increases in value as it develops physically. Unlike the theories...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Summer (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH...
Read MoreSome ethicists argue that the unborn becomes fully human sometime after brain development has begun, when it becomes sentient: capable of experiencing sensations such as pain. The reason for choosing sentience as the criterion...
Read MoreAs I noted in Part Three, viability is the time at which the unborn human can live outside her mother’s womb. Some have argued that prior to this time, since the unborn cannot survive independent of her mother, she is not...
Read MoreSome bioethicists, such as Baruch Brody, believe that full humanness begins when the brain starts functioning, which can first be detected by the electroencephalogram (EEG) at about 40 to 43 days after conception.1 (Although...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Spring (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH...
Read MoreRealizing that many popular arguments for abortion rights — such as some of the ones found in the first two installments in this series — have little logical merit, many philosophers, ethicists, and theologians have...
Read MoreThis article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Winter (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH...
Read MoreMany people in the abortion rights movement argue that their position is more tolerant than the pro-life position. After all, they reason, the abortion rights movement is not forcing pro-life women to have abortions, but the...
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