During the first half of the twentieth century, a number of liberal authors and professors claimed that the New Testament teaching about Jesus’ death and resurrection, the New Birth, and the Christian practices of baptism and the Lord’s Supper were derived from the...
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Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan/Mystery Religions?
African Traditional Religion, Black Lives Matter, and Prosperity Gospel
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 44, number 03 (2021). . For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. SYNOPSIS African Traditional Religion (ATR) encompasses all indigenous African...
Was The New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions?
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 JOURNAL go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ During the first half of the twentieth century, a number of...
Euthanasia Arguments
In Part One of this series I examined two central aspects of the euthanasia debate. First, several important background concepts in ethical theory were explained. Second, the main features of the libertarian and traditional views of euthanasia were set forth. The...
The Euthanasia Debate: Part Two: Assessing the Options
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 14, number 03 (1992). 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 Journal go to:...
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 go to: http://www.equip.org Most conservative evangelical Christians who would read periodicals such as...
Science and Religion 2002: A Response to Skeptical Inquirer (Part Two)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 1 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Darwin's Predictable Defenders: A Response to Massimo Pigliucci by William A. Dembski Some...
Mere Ambassadors
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 03 (2018). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, please click here. I was out for a run on a beautiful...
Worldview Awareness
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org For centuries most people throughout the...
When Communers Become Consumers: Church-Growth Rules That Could Be Making Yours Sick
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 01 (1998). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ Once I had a friend —...
Jeane Dixon and Prophecy
JEANE DIXON, known to millions through her books and newspaper columns, claims to be a prophet of God, one who is doing “the Lord’s work.” In fact, she has gone so far as to say that “the same spirit that worked through Isaiah and John the Baptist also works through...
Jesus and Buddha: Two Masters or One?
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 25, number 04 (2003). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go...
Should We Continue to Use the Term Sexual Purity?
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 39, number 05 (2016). Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared...
Recovering the Lost Unity of Heart and Mind
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 39, number 01 (2016). 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 JOURNAL go to:...
Deity Vs. Humanity: A Closer Look at Philippians 2:6-7
This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 32, number 04 (2009). For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/...
Episode 251 Growing Up and Letting Go in CODA
The film CODA (2021) is a coming-of-age story about a hearing girl and her deaf family. While the arc of the story has the stereotypical beats of a teenage coming-of-age drama, it also explores the dynamics of growing up and letting go. Many Christians might resonate...
Christianity and Black Slavery
Volume 36:Issue 1 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor Observing the Fortieth Anniversary of Roe v.Wade 06 Response A Thief in the Night…The Troubling Truth about Bonhoeffer’s Theology…The Fine Points of Discernment 08 Effective...
Is There a Utopia Outside of Christ?
I was thinking the other day about the early 90’s, and being with Chuck Colson in Chicago when he was receiving The Templeton Award, and he talked about the enduring revolution of the cross. In his message and acceptance speech, he mentioned the myth of a coming...
Podblast Beautiful Union by Joshua Ryan Butler and the Trouble with Borrowing Icons
It’s been called “a marvel” and “the Protestant magnum opus on sexual ethics we’ve been waiting for.” It’s also been called “Sacred Pornography,” a “Protestant bowdlerization” of Theology of the Body,4 and “a rhapsody over a very male-centered experience of sexual...
The Theology of Illness with Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet
The health of our soul is more important than the health of our body, yet in our modern age of materialism, we have made the medical doctor the new high priest of a civilization seeking purely physical solutions to problems previously presumed to involve the soul....
The Coronavirus—Comfort and Insight from Fr. Themi
This edition of Hank Unplugged was organized by Paradise 4 Kids Global, including Fr. Themi’s Orthodox mission in Sierra Leone, where it is his work to preach the Gospel and meet the needs of the poor in the name of Jesus. Fr. Themi lived in the epicenter of the...
Heretics! What Divides Christians? with Francis Chan, Hank Hanegraaff and Metropolitan Yohan
Please see the video interview here! Heretic! Hank Hanegraaff, Francis Chan and Metropolitan Yohan have all been accused of being heretics. The backlash that Francis Chan received after making comments about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist was the...
On Grace, Salvation and Prayer with Nathan Jacobs, Hank Hanegraaff, and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan
Please see video interview here. Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, is joined by Nathan Jacobs and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan for the second in a series of wide-ranging roundtable discussions. A professor,...
Imprudence of “Solo Scriptura” — A Message from Hank Hanegraaff
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Apocalypse When? Why Most End-time Teaching Is Dead Wrong
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 30, number 02 (2007). 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 SYNOPSIS The basic...
The Myth of Persecution: A Provocative Title, An Overdone Thesis
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 36, number 06 (2013). 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 JOURNAL go to:...
Caricatures of Reason and Its Users
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 37, number 05 (2014). 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 JOURNAL go to:...
Responding to Evil Christianly
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 39, number 06 (2016). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. In the early morning...
Is It Immoral to Believe in God?
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 38, number 04 (2015). 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 JOURNAL go to:...
The Life between the Life Before and the Life After
This review first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 37, number 03 (2014). 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 JOURNAL go to:...
Creation: Full of Bad Design and Pointless Waste?
The explosion of intelligent design (ID) is undoubtedly one factor that has united the efforts of the New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. There is another, lesser-known group that has also been provoked by the progress of ID: theistic...
The “Jesus Seminar”: The Quest for the “Imaginary” Jesus
This article first appeared in Forward volume 9, number 1 (1986). The full PDF can be viewed by clicking here. Did He or didn’t He? Did Jesus really say the things attributed Him in the Gospels? For members of the Jesus Seminar, in many cases the answer is no....
Jehovah’s Witnesses Defended: An Answer to Scholars and Critics
This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 2 (1998). Summary Critique of Jehovah’s Witnesses Defended: An Answer to Scholars and Critics Greg Stafford (Elihu Books, 1998) Jehovah’s Witnesses are not known for engaging...
Care of the Soul
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 18, number 2 (Fall 1995). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. A Summary Critique of Care of the Soul A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday...
Am I a Bad Christian for Watching Hallmark Christmas Movies?
This is an online-exclusive viewpoint article from the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. ***Note originally published Dec 05, 2019.**** Viewpoint articles address relevant...
What Stands behind the Adjective Poetic That You May Not Want to See
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 39, number 06 (2016). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. A Summary Critique...
Q&A: Confessing Our Sins, Preaching Salvation, and Jehovah’s Witnesses
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A Summary Critique: Universalism Isn’t for Everyone
If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person Philip Gulley and James Mulholland (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003) This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 4 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research...
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 29, number 1 (2006). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Sam Harris is terrified. He worries that human civilization is racing toward the brink of...
The Wisdom of Pixar
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 03 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Films by Pixar Animation Studios are not only entertaining,...
Caroline Myss and the New Age Contract
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 4 (2003). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. A Summary Critique of Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential Caroline Myss (Henry Holt,...
Q&A: Unpardonable Sins, Sinless Perfection, and the Antichrist
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Q&A: The Fall, Bankruptcy, and Jacob’s Stolen Blessing
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The Callousness of Planned Parenthood, and Q&A
Today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast includes the following topics: Hank's Prologue: Hank shares his thoughts on the difficulty he had last night watching graphic images of Planned Parenthood doctors brazenly talking about money while cameras zoomed into...
Have You Considered Trying Harder: The Theology of Rachel Hollis
This is an online-exclusive feature article from the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you to subscribe to the JOURNAL ,you join the team of print subscribers whose paid...
Q&A: Thieves on the Cross, Unrepentance, and Circumcision
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