Many Christians may have been shocked at Ben Stein’s 2008 documentary Expelled, which exposed the closed-mindedness of many university and post-graduate school leaders around America. The film documented how educators who dared question the theory of evolution...
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A Reasonable Belief
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 6 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Since 9/11, many in the “New Atheism” movement have done their...
LDS Church Acknowledges Anniversary’s Ban on Priesthood for Blacks
On June 8, 1978, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) gave an announcement that many Mormons never expected to hear in their lifetimes. Today Official Declaration—2 is found in the back of the LDS scripture Doctrine and Covenants and...
Questions and Answers with Hank
June 10, 2011 Hank Hanegraaff answers the question: What is your authority? (0:31) Questions / Comments 62 years old, Vietnam veteran, had conversion experience, converted to Mormonism, prayed about the Book of Mormon, found passages in Book of Mormon like the Bible....
Questions and Answers with Hank
April 8, 2011 Hank shares on how hell disappeared in the kingdom of the cults a long time ago, as in the cases of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormonism, but universalism is gaining ground in Christian circles (0:39) Comments / Questions Do humans consist of spirit, soul,...
Forerunner Eschatology: Mike Bickle’s End-Time Teaching and the International House of Prayer
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 32, number 04 (2009). 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:...
Questions and Answers with Hank
February 21, 2011 Hank shares the testimony of Michelle who came out of Mormonism (0:33) Questions / Comments I am having a discussion on the two natures of Christ. Did Christ have two spirits, a human spirit, and a divine spirit? (5:30) What is the sin leading to...
Questions and Answers with Hank
Hank shares a word on wisdom (0:28) Questions / Comments What about the Urantia Book? (1:50) Where does gambling stand in the Christian life? (4:53) Became a Christian at a very young age. Committed a sin a long time ago, but I am too ashamed to share about it with my...
Finding Faith through Fiction
The mixing of philosophy or theology with fictional literature is certainly not a novel idea. British thinker C. S. Lewis used this technique with flair. While he showed his deep thinking with Mere Christianity, Lewis also penned The Chronicles of Narnia, the...
The Oldest Biblical Text? Joseph Smith’s Book of Abraham Examined
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 32, number 03 (2009). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. In 1835 Joseph Smith, Jr., announced what he thought was the most important discovery in the...
Engaging Culture with Truth
With the Christian worldview under heated attack, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, uses bite-sized chapters in his newest book to address challenging cultural issues. Mohler—a columnist, blogger, and radio...
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...
Questions and Answers with Hank
August 31, 2010 Questions/Comments Genesis 16 account of Abraham and Sarah using Hagar as a surrogate to bear an offspring, which then created problems with Hagar, her child Ishmael, and Sarah and Abraham. Do the same problems illustrated in the Bible repeat...
Questions and Answers with Hank
August 31, 2010 Questions / Comments Did Jesus command us to avoid certain foods? (0:32) Glenn Beck and Mormonism. Do they worship the same God as Christians? (2:57) Peter crucified upon the cross upside down? (5:13) What about Jack Deer and Mike Bicke with the...
Questions and Answers with Hank
May 31, 2010 Questions / Comments How to explain to youth group about slain in the spirit happening at prayer times (2:09) What are the dubious beliefs about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s theology? (4:51) Female friend says she gets sexually aroused when she thinks of...
Questions and Answers with Hank
April 9, 2010 Hank shares on how there are so many preachers who wrongly teach that anytime a believer has a problem receiving a healing that believer suffers from the ignorance of God’s Word. Truth is the false teachers who have miscarried justice, righteousness, and...
Questions and Answers with Hank
September 23, 2009 Questions / Topics 27-year-old son identifies as an agnostic Christian. Contradiction? What of his salvation? (1:20) Concerning the effect that sin has upon a Christian, is it possible to live a consistent life without an up and down struggle with...
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...
Satanism
Volume 28/Issue 5 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: The Proper Basis and Spirit for Discernment Ministry by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Satanism: A Taste for the Dark Side by Richard G. Howe The Essential Doctrines of the...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Bible Versions
To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: <What Are We to Teach about How to Handle Scripture? by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Bible Versions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part One) by James R. White Faith’s Psychology and the...
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...
Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction
1992 Summer Contents: The Near-Death Experience: Alternative Explanations (Part 2) by J. Isamu Yamamoto Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction by Joseph P. Gudel Mormonism and the Question of Truth by Latayne C. Scott Witnessing Tips: Sharing Your Faith with Asian Americans...
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: http://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...
The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Critics and supporters agree that the veracity of Mormonism hinges...
Book of Mormon Word Change
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org A recent word change to the introduction of the Book...
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). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “I am astonished that you are so quickly...
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: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...
Is Jesus Christ the Spirit Brother of Satan?
This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ Chris Wallace: “What...
Joseph Smith’s First Vision Tested
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume30, number6 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org The central pillar of historic belief in...
Was Min the True God of Joseph Smith, Jr.?
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org There are few better tests of Joseph...
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: http://www.equip.org After many months of hints and media speculation,...
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: http://www.equip.org The advertisement for the book from Eerdmans includes this claim:...
LDS Apologetics and the Battle for Mormon History
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Apologetics, historically, has not been a high priority for the...
Mary Magdalene’s Modern Makeover
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number2 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Revisionist portraits of Jesus promulgated today by...
god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Christopher Hitchens does not like “god” one bit. In his polemical...
Navigating the Emerging Church Highway
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 4 (2008). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Wading through the entire emerging church milieu is incredibly complicated. In this...
Discerning the Defects of Discernment Ministry
This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The Christian Research Institute (CRI) was founded in 1960 for the...
Bible Versions (Part Two)
This article 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: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Christians who are serious about the Bible tend to gravitate...
High-Tech Apocalypse? Millennium Computer Bug Provokes Varied Responses
This article first appeared in News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 1 (1999). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Hal Lindsay couldn’t have planned it better. After three decades of largely...
Tracking the God Chaser: An Examination of the Teachings of Tommy Tenney
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 3 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS Since the splitting of a church pulpit at Christian Tabernacle in Houston, Texas, in 1996,...
Are We Really Willing?
When professor Tatiana came to the Christian Research Institute on a January afternoon, she had one thing in mind: getting help for her people. Tatiana is a language instructor at Moscow State University, and a fairly new Christian. But even as God's love and peace...
Visualization: God-Given Power or New Age Danger?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 2 (Fall 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY Although visualization can be adapted to almost any philosophy, in its popular usage...
New Age Messiah Identified
Troy Lawrence, author of New Age Messiah Identified (Huntington House), is exposed as a fraud. According to an article by Eric Pement in Cornerstone magazine (vol. 20, no. 95), “Troy Lawrence” — an alias for Darrick Evenson — “has...
Mormon Filmmakers Seek Box-Office Blessings
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 2 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The advertisement for The Other Side of Heaven appeared promising. “From...
Popular Mormon Apologetics — Staking Claims on Christian Ground
This book review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 24, number 4 (2002). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. A Summary Critique of Biblical Mormonism: Responding to Evangelical Criticism of LDS Theology...
Pinning Down Mormon Doctrine (Part 2)
This article first appeared in the Volume 23 /Number 4 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Part Two In our previous installment on how Latter-day Saints (LDS)...