The Gospel of Judas
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Read MoreThe DaVinci Code
Click 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....
Read MoreThe Book of Abraham and the Book of Mormon
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Read MoreThe Creation Story: How Old Is the Earth?
While 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 MoreChristian Leaders: Is It Okay to Criticize Christian Leaders?
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 15, number 02 (1992). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the...
Read MorePartial Birth Abortion: Where Does America Stand?
The 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 and the Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist
Pro-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: What Are Some Anti-Abortion Arguments?
Anti-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 MoreAnswering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Four): When Does a Human Become a Person
This 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 MoreAttainment of Sentience: Is Sentience a Dividing Line for Life?
Some 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 MoreViability: Is a Fetus a Person Once it Can Live Outside the Mother’s Womb?
As 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 MoreInfant Brain Development: Beginning of Brain Development
Some 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 MoreAnswering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Three): Is the Unborn Human Less Than Human?
This 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 MorePrenatal Development: Conception through Five Months
Realizing 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 MoreAnswering the Arguments for Abortion Rights? (Part Two): Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem
This 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 MoreThe Abortion Debate: Arguments from Tolerance
Many 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...
Read MoreUnwanted Children: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
It is argued by many people in the pro-choice movement that legal abortion helps eliminate unwanted children. They believe that unwanted children are indirectly responsible for a great number of family problems, such as child...
Read MoreAbortion and Rape: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
In the first installment of this four-part series we examined a number of arguments for abortion rights which can be classified as appeals to pity. In this article I will present and critique more appeals to pity, along with two...
Read MoreAnswering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part 1): The Appeal to Pity
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Fall (1990). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here....
Read MoreThe Unborn: Does the Humanity of the Unborn Matter Anymore?
This article first appeared in the Volume 17 / Number 3 Winter 1995 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Pro-lifers in the...
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