HOW FIRM IS THE FIRMAMENT?

By Hugh Henry and Daniel J. Dyke

Experimental physics has recently verified the prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity that outer space has structure. Yet was this concept already described by Genesis 1 many centuries earlier? A comprehensive analysis of the complex Hebrew word rāqîa‘ seems to suggest that it was!

Rāqîa‘ appears seven [...]

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Question: What is the meaning of life?

Answer: What is the meaning of life? How can purpose, fulfillment, and satisfaction in life be found? How can something of lasting significance be achieved? So many people have never stopped to consider these important questions. They look back years later and wonder why their relationships have [...]

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Question: What is the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible?

Answer: The Skeptics Annotated Bible is a website dedicated to pointing out all of the supposed errors, contradictions, and discrepancies in the Bible. The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible divides the supposed errors into the following categories: injustice, absurdity, cruelty and violence, intolerance, contradictions, family values, women, good stuff, science [...]

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WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE IN HELL?

By Hank Hanegraaff

“Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt” (Daniel 12:2 NIV).

The horrors of hell are such that they cause us instinctively to recoil in disbelief and doubt; yet, there are compelling reasons [...]

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ARE PEOPLE BASICALLY GOOD?

By Rich Deem

Introduction

Many present day philosophies and worldviews claim the people are basically good and that bad or immoral behavior is the exception. The Bible states quite the opposite – that people are selfish and sinful as soon as they are able to express that kind of behavior. [...]

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WAS JESUS CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS, OR A TREE?

By Matt Slick

Jesus was crucified on a cross, not a literal tree that had leaves on it.  The Greek words for cross and tree are different.  Let’s take a look.  The Greek word for cross is σταυρός “stauros”: “literally cross, an instrument of [...]

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HOW WERE PEOPLE SAVED BEFORE JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS?

Since the fall of man, the basis of salvation has always been the death of Christ. No one, either prior to the cross or since the cross, would ever be saved without that one pivotal event in the history of the world. Christ’s death [...]

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DOES AN ANGEL OR EAGLE FLY IN REVELATION 8:13?

By Craig Blomberg, Ph.D.

Recently a friend from my church sent me a question on Facebook.  She had read Revelation 8:13 out of both the New King James Version (NKJV) and the NIV (New International Version).  The NKJV said that in one of John’s visions [...]

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Question: Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?

Answer: Abraham had obeyed God many times in his walk with Him, but no test could have been more severe than the one in Genesis 22. God commanded, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of [...]

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Question: Why are there so many religions? Do all religions lead to God?

Answer: The existence of so many religions and the claim that all religions lead to God without question confuses many who are earnestly seeking the truth about God, with the end result sometimes being that some despair of ever reaching the [...]

 
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