Reading Time: 6 minutes Catholics even today can’t seem to give up the conceit that legendary Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) wasn’t persecuted by the Church in the 17th century for heretical religion but, instead, for bad science. As if. No matter that the Inquisition, the Church’s fearsome heresy-prosecuting arm in the Middle Ages, convicted the pioneering, cosmos-exploring scientist […]
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Polygamy (and other outdated institutions that God approves of)
Reading Time: 6 minutes Let’s look at what the Bible actually says about polygamy and how God regulates it (like another institution we’ve explored …). Our Christian apologist is still confused about critiques of polygamy vs. polygamists.
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The problem of polygamy: how to refurbish the Bible’s good reputation?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Christian apologist wrestles with the fact that many of the Bible’s good men were polygamists. How could God do this? Things make more sense if you consider that the Bible thought polygamy was fine.
Posted inEthics and Morality
More traits of a real man, according to the Bible
Reading Time: 4 minutes A conservative Christian site has a list of biblical rules for a modern man of God. Here’s a more interesting list, also well grounded in biblical teaching.
Posted inEthics and Morality
What is a ‘real man,’ according to the Bible?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A conservative Christian site has a list of biblical rules for a modern man of God. But why stop there? Let’s look to the Bible to make a more thorough list.
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Damning Bible contradictions: 2 Ten Commandments, 2 creation stories, 2 Flood stories, and more
Reading Time: 4 minutes How many of your favorite Bible contradictions are in this list? This time, it’s two versions of Ten Commandments, creation, and Flood stories + resurrection and Jesus changing the plan.
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Damning Bible contradictions: Who Would Jesus Convert? and more
Reading Time: 5 minutes What are your favorite Bible contradictions? See how many of yours are in this list. This time: transgenerational punishments, day of crucifixion, Jesus’s target, Jesus’s return, and answered prayer.
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Damning Bible contradictions: faith and works, the End, and more
Reading Time: 4 minutes What are your favorite Bible contradictions? This time: faith vs. works, Jesus genealogy, harm to Christians, the End, and Mary’s home after Jesus.
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Top 20 most damning Bible contradictions
Reading Time: 4 minutes What are your favorite Bible contradictions? See how many of yours are in this list. Topics: sin, women at the tomb, belief, seeing God, and God’s rules.
Posted inDeep Dive
Who invented Christianity?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Here’s the thing: No one knows for sure if the words of Jesus in the gospels are his actual words. We’re fairly certain that some of them definitely aren’t. There is even a not-very-good argument to be made that Jesus never existed. Most biblical scholars accept that Jesus probably did exist. They agree that at least […]