When you see street preachers holding up signs or handing out tracts, there can be a wide variety of beliefs represented. Something most seem to have in common is preaching against sin. You'll often find them at crowded areas with a lot of foot traffic. They especially show up at pu…

In discussions about the beginning of the universe, a recurring claim seeks to soften or even negate the significance of the Big Bang as a true temporal boundary. One popular version of this view is that, due to the geometric behavior of space-time near the Big Bang, time "slows d…

Romans 9 is often cited as one of the strongest defenses of a deterministic view of salvation—where God unilaterally elects some individuals to salvation and leaves the rest in reprobation. On this reading, the human will is entirely inert in the process. There is no place for a genuin…

Few verses unsettle sincere Christians more than Jesus’ warning: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” —  Matthew 7:21  Many believers read this line and quietly wonder, Have I do…

Popular rhetoric often equates “faith” with a willful suspension of the intellect— belief in the absence of, or even against, evidence. That caricature is rhetorically convenient; it is also historically and linguistically inaccurate. A closer, more disciplined look reveals that fai…