Apologetics (Page 5)

Apologetics (Page 5)

Does The Bible Approve of Ethnic Cleansing?

Consider Deuteronomy  20:16-18: “However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things…

Love them into the kingdom

There is a growing trend in some evangelical churches to ‘soften’ the gospel as we work with those in deprived areas. Not soften it so much as tone the language down a bit. Emphasise love. ‘Jesus loves you.’ I was amused several months ago when one of the locals turned to a young believer (visiting us) and asked, ‘So, am I going to hell then…

Is God a child abuser?

I have been following a horrific story in the press over the last few weeks. A man in Wales has been sentenced to 8 years for spiking his baby’s milk with methadone. Read the full details here. God forgive me, but my first instinct is to hunt this animal down and make him suffer. I know from personal experience that his life in prison is going to be filled with…

Is God better than weed?

Somebody asked me recently that if God is so powerful and all-knowing and he doesn’t need anybody or anything outside of himself to exist, why does he need us to worship him? Does God have such low self-esteem that he needs to hear from the human race how great he is? The issue for the human race is that we have been designed to worship. It is built into our DNA. It…

Creation Issues

Let me tell you straight off the bat that I am a 6 day creationist. By that I mean that God created the world in six , literal 24 hour periods as written in Genesis 1. I believe that the book of Genesis is historical fact and not elevated Hebraic prose. Contrary to perceived opinions I don’t hate science, have a poster of Ken Ham up in my bedroom (my wife…