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October 4, 2021

Surviving Religion 101

Most college students raised in a Christian home leave the church after going off to college. In a study that was released in 2019, Barna reported that sixty-four percent of 18-29-year-olds who were active in church as a child or teen have withdrawn from church involvement.[1] There are a plethora of reasons for this exodus, but one big one is an inability to answer doubts.

Children and teenagers who grow up in church are often told what to believe, but they’re not always told why they should believe it. Many are never exposed to other belief systems, and they have blindly believed what their parents and Sunday School teachers have taught them (which is not necessarily a bad thing). Some have even been scolded for asking any kinds of questions about their faith.

Then, they go off to college and enroll in a religion or philosophy course, and that’s when things go south. Their entire belief system is challenged by older and seemingly wiser professors, and they have no idea how to rebut the arguments. Instead of searching for the truth, they go with the flow and accept the theories and philosophies of the sacred texts of their universities (aka college textbooks). They leave true, biblical Christianity for a pseudo-Christianity, atheism, or another religion altogether.

This is obviously a big problem, and to help solve this problem, scholar Michael J. Kruger wrote a book called Surviving Religion 101.

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In Apologetics, Blog, Book Reviews on
January 25, 2021

Another Gospel?

Several weeks ago, I was searching on YouTube for a podcast episode when I came across a video from a channel called “God is Grey.” The video appeared to be a woman’s response to a critique from a Christian woman I highly admire and respect and listen to often. Out of curiosity, I clicked on the video and watched it. I discovered that the woman’s name was Brenda and that she had some unorthodox and even unbiblical views, even though she claimed to be a Christian. I decided to watch some of the other videos on the God is Grey channel, and I learned that Brenda believes things like the Bible is simply full of human writings, homosexuality is not a sin, Christians should vote pro-choice, and having sex outside of marriage is just fine to do.

I would describe Brenda as a progressive Christian. Progressive Christianity is both dangerous and harmful to the Church, which is why Alisa Childers wrote her book Another Gospel?.

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In Blog, Common Questions, Theology on
March 30, 2020

Was Jesus Created?

According to Ligonier Ministries’ State of Theology survey in 2018, fifty-seven percent of American adults agree with the statement that “Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God.” The majority of Americans believe that Jesus was a created being. They believe that He was the first and greatest creation, but He was still created by God. Is this actually true? And does it really matter whether Jesus was created or not?

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In Apologetics, Blog, Book Reviews on
March 23, 2020

Confronting Christianity

Is Christianity really the only true religion? Can the Bible really be taken literally? Hasn’t Christianity been disproven by science? Isn’t Christianity homophobic, and doesn’t it denigrate women? How could a good, loving God allow so much suffering and death?

These are questions that people bring up about the Christian faith every day in today’s modern world. And people have really been asking these questions for decades or even centuries. Maybe these questions have crossed your mind at some point. Perhaps you’ve heard someone who claimed to be a Christian make a comment that seemed hateful or mean. Or maybe a professor or a science genius has told you Christian beliefs and ideas are impossible or dangerous. Or maybe you’ve been in a situation where it seemed like God didn’t show up like you thought He would.

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