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Is the Bible to blame for the recent fighting in Israel?
Joel Baden, a professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School, recently wrote a blog at CNN. In it he accuses the Bible for the most recent violence between Israel...
How Many Sons did Abraham have? A Look at an Alleged Bible Contradiction
Genesis 22:2 says, “Then God said, ‘Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love…’” Yet Genesis 16 records how Abraham became the father of Ishmael. In fact, it...
Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?
We have all heard stories about parents who have murdered their children and gone on to defend their actions by claiming that God told them to do so. Whenever we...
Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?
During my freshman year of college I took a world civilization class. I will never forget that one of our required readings actually said that the New Testament authors were...
Where is Armageddon?
The Battle of Armageddon is perhaps the most famous battle that anyone has ever heard of. Interestingly, it has not happened yet. We learn of this great battle in Revelation...
The Character of the Antichrist
When Christians talk about the Antichrist, the discussion almost always results in the topic of where the Antichrist will come from. Everyone is always interested to know exactly what nation...
Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus – A Contradiction of Kings?
The Gospel of Matthew begins with a genealogy connecting Jesus back to Abraham, the father of the Jewish people. Matthew starts Jesus’ story with this list of names because he...
Does God Change His Mind?
The belief that the Bible contradicts itself is very popular among non-Christians. One of these contradictions is that God changes his mind. How could an all-knowing God change his mind?...