On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank welcomes Dr. John West, a Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, as well as the writer and director of the DVD Privileged Species. Dr. West claims that the evidence for design in the...
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A FAIR Question: Does Mormon Apologist Marc A. Schindler Successfully Harmonize Celestial Marriage with Matthew 22:23–30?
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 35, number 02 (2012). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL...
Problems with the Gold Plates of the Book of Mormon
Listen to this article (17:05 min)This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 02 (2011). For further information about the Christian Research Journal go to:...
Manga as Theological Reflection
Volume 36:Issue 5 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor Minivan-Driving Soccer Moms and Theology 06 Response Facing the Islamic Challenge… The Great Debate about English Bible Versions… Contemplative Prayer and Psalm 46:10 08...
A One-sided Struggle with Orthodoxy: Putting Away Childish Things by Marcus Borg
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 02 (2011). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, click here. Most conservative evangelical Christians who would read periodicals such as the...
The Bridge or the Beehive? Mormon Apologetics in a Postmodern Age
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 04 (2007). SYNOPSIS Since the time Joseph Smith, Jr., founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (Mormon or LDS) in 1830, Christians have recognized this...
Breaking the Silence: Setting the Record Straight
Appendix D: Setting the Record Straight: A Response to Recent [1] Attacks against the Christian Research Institute by Elliot Miller, CRI Editor-in-Chief In its 35-year history the Christian Research Institute (CRI) has never been sued by any of the groups we...
Questions and Answers with Hank
February 23, 2012 Hank addresses the question of whether the Big Bang can be harmonized with Genesis (0:37) Questions / Comments What is your opinion of the book Charismatic Chaos by John MacArthur? (5:09) I have charismatic relatives who believe everyone should speak...
U.S. Senator Defends the Book of Mormon
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 02 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org The Book of Mormon has been controversial since it was first published by...
Questions and Answers with Hank
November 2, 2011 Questions / Comments: Ok to tell a Mormon that Joseph Smith taught all churches were wrong and all their creeds an abomination (3:58). What is the age of the earth? (8:51) Why do you criticize John Hagee? It is impolite to do so. Why call Hagee a...
Questions and Answers with Hank
Hank addresses the Mormon belief that on May 15, 1829 John the Baptist appeared and conferred the Aaronic priesthood upon to Joseph Smith and later on Peter, James and John conferred upon Smith the Melchizedek priesthood (0:39) Questions / Comments: Did Jesus fulfill...
Questions and Answers with Hank
October 24, 2011 Hank shares about the 19th century having lots of predicting the end of the world, such as Joseph Smith, and the Millerites. Then in the 20th century false predictions about the end of the world revolved around 1948 and the establishment of the modern...
Questions and Answers with Hank
October 12, 2011 Hank critiques the Mormon teaching about God the Father having sex with the virgin Mary to conceive Jesus Christ (1:19) Questions / Comments The Book of Mormon claims Joseph Smith is the last prophet, but are there not modern-day apostles and...
Questions and Answers with Hank
May 20, 2011 Hank shares on there being less than 24-hours to the so-called May 21, 2011, end of the world prediction made by Harold Camping and points out many other similar kinds of false end time predictions, such as those made by Joseph Smith, William Miller, and...
Questions and Answers with Hank
March 23, 2011 Hank share on the Holy City and the present end-time emphasis being placed on the modern state of Israel (0:41) Questions / Comments You have amazing knowledge, and I think it has been revealed to you (3:43) I am scared about Islam. Is it a religion or...
Between Radical Freedom and Total Determinism
Volume 34:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor Let’s Resurrect the Response Page! 06 Effective Evangelism Reincarnation: Lifetimes for Enlightenment? 08 Practical Hermeneutics Jesus: The “Begotten” of the Father 10Literary...
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 17, 2010 Hank shares thoughts on biblical significance of the Holy City of Jerusalem and the doctrinal, social and political problems the come as the result of biblical illiteracy (0:30) Questions / Comments It appears all the knowledge you display is...
Questions and Answers with Hank
June 9, 2010 Hank comments on the problematic claims made in the Book of Mormon. No evidence for Reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics, no evidence for the Land of Moron, and no evidence for Jaredites, Nephites, and Laminates migrated from Israel to the Americas. These are...
Questions and Answers with Hank
June 8, 20210 Hank addresses the myth propped up by secular skeptics that Scripture sanctions slavery, a case in point being President Barack Obama who has overtly stated that the Bible supports slavery, but nothing can be further from the truth... (0:51) Interview...
Questions and Answers with Hank
May 3, 2010 Comments / Questions What are the beliefs of Bill Maher? (14:21) What is your position on creationism? (17:28) Clarify your view on the will of God and divine healing. Is it the will of God for some to be ill? (26:01) Pondering a question from Hebrews...
Questions and Answers with Hank
March 12, 2010 Hank shares on the profoundness of the Book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon, who reigned at the height of Israel’s glory. He was the wisest, richest, and most influential king in the entire history of Israel… (2:33) Questions /...
Questions and Answers with Hank
August 18, 2009 Questions: Did Muhammad receive his revelations in the same way as Joseph Smith did for the Book for Mormon? Moroni inspired both Islam and Mormonism? (7:31) Are we to have total abstinence of alcoholic beverage or drink in moderation? (12:39) Are...
A Reconsideration of Romantic Love
Volume 32:Issue 3 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: Feature Articles: A Reconsideration of Romantic Love by Rob Whitely (feature Viewpoint) Joel’s Army Marches On by Bob Hunter The Oldest Biblical Text? Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham Examined by...
Navigating The Emerging Church Highway
Volume 31:Issue 4 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: Feature Articles: Navigating the Emerging Church Highway by Mark Driscoll Jesus as “God”: Scriptural Fact or Scribal Fantasy? By Brian J. Wright The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment...
Suicide
Volume 31:Issue 3 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: Suicide: Answering Against Eternity by C. Wayne Mayhall The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment (Part Two: Yoga in Its Contemporary Western Context) by Elliot Miller The “Martyrdom” of...
Yoga
Volume 31:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment (Part One: Yoga in Its Original Eastern Context) by Elliot Miller Addiction Recovery and the Burden of Self by C. Wayne Mayhall...
The Star of Bethlehem: Light from Heaven?
Volume 30:Issue 6 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: The Star of Bethlehem? Light from Heaven? by T. Michael Davis Returning to Rome: Should Evangelicals Abandon the Reformation? by H. Wayne House The Secret Revealed: Assessing...
Christian Families on the Edge
Volume 26/Issue 1 To purchase this individual issue click here. From the Editor: And Now, the Bimonthly Christian Research Journal by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Feng Shui: New Dimensions in Design by Marcia Montenegro How to Interpret Your Bible Correctly (Part...
Left Behind
Volume 24/Issue 4 Contents: From the Editor: The Peril of Newspaper Eschatology by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: When Truth Gets Left Behind by Gene Edward Veith Life in the Big Tent: Traditional Creationism and the Intelligent Design Community by Paul A. Nelson...
Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 1)
Click Here to listen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was birthed back in the 1800s by an alleged vision in which two celestial personages appeared to Joseph Smith and claimed that all existing churches were wrong, that all their creeds were an...
Mormonism And Polygamy
The Mormon church is well known for its equivocations. The new and everlasting covenant of plural marriage is perhaps the best example of Mormon equivocation. Under threat of exile to Mexico the Mormon church officially abolished polygamy in the earthly realm in 1890....
How Wide Is the Mormon Divide?
One of the questions I get over and over again is "How wide is the divide between Mormonism and Christianity? Is it really substantive?" Well, in 1997 Stephen Robinson, a professor at a Mormon university, BYU, and Craig Blomberg, a professor at a Christian seminary,...
Muhammad: Prophet of God
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org With the publication of Robert Millett’s A Different Jesus,1 major...
Are Mormons and Muslims Apples and Oranges?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS When it comes to stereotypical caricatures, Islam and Mormonism could very well be the two...
Book of Mormon Word Change
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 3 (2008). A recent word change to the introduction of the Book of Mormon has once again brought attention to the question regarding the historical...
Is the Book of Mormon Credible?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is...
2 Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...
Mormonism and Patristic Studies: How Mormons Use the Church Fathers to Defend Mormonism
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS The patristic period of church history refers to the first few centuries following the New...
Devout Mormon Mitt Romney Announces 2008 Run for President
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org After many months of hints and media speculation,...
Is It Permissible for a Christian to Vote for a Mormon?
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 30, number 5 (2007). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The campaign for the 2008 U. S. presidency is underway, with perhaps the...
A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org The advertisement for the book from Eerdmans includes this claim:...