The Apologetics Resource Center is about the process of understanding the times and the alien philosophies opposed to God’s truth, as well as understanding and effecting the antidote of both knowing God’s truth and being the truth in our home, neighborhood, and culture. Now is the time for the Church to be served a wake up call, to be motivated, equipped and deployed into our world as radical change agents, redemptively as salt and light.
Evaluating the Book of Mormon
The Claim The Book of Mormon professes to be the record of the original inhabitants of the Americas who are descended from the Jews in Israel. These Jews migrated from Jerusalem in approximately 600 B.C., shortly before its destruction. After arriving in the Americas, this small group of individuals became divided due to strife. Those […]
Religious Freedom and Discrimination: Why the Debate Continues
By Albert Mohler This is a first for me—writing a book review while flying over the northern reaches of the Atlantic Ocean. I’m returning to the United States after responsibilities in the United Kingdom, speaking mostly to pastors and other Christian leaders. Everywhere I went, from central London to rural Kent, the same urgent question […]
Veritas: The Cross and the Crescent
by Craig Branch The attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, has been remembered as “a date that will live in infamy” by Americans for the past 60 years. But September 11, 2001 is another date to add to it. Even though in the recent past, many Americans and Christians have been brutalized and murdered […]
Welcome to America…Or Not
The Divide between Protection and Compassion By Eric Francis President Trump’s travel ban is creating lots of divided opinions in our country even among Christians. According to Pew Research Center conducted on February 7 through 12, 2017, 51% of Protestants approve the travel ban, 45% disapprove and 4% did not have an opinion. How is […]
Does Accepting Homosexuality Curb the Spread of HIV? A 35-Year Experiment
By Paul Cameron, Kirk Cameron, and Kay Proctor March 2, 2017 In 1981, a flush of gay infections announced the American AIDS epidemic. A debate ensued: should homosexuality be suppressed by closing gay bars and baths, outlawing homosexual activity, and rigorously enforcing laws against public sex, etc., thus dampening opportunities for homosexuals to spread the […]
Unpacking “The Shack”
By Rev. Clete Hux What starts as a book often becomes a motion picture. This is certainly the case in pop culture. In a visually oriented age, aided by the fact that “a picture paints a thousand words”, many would rather watch a movie than read a book. Both what is read in a book […]
Sports and the LGBTQA Movement
By Clete Hux The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat! This was a well-known quip from an ABC television commercial in the 1970s. It was a time regarded by many to be very unlike today. At that time another adage was heard from fans but especially from coaches. It was this: It’s not […]
Are There Scientific Errors in the Bible?
By Robert B. Stewart One often hears that the Bible is filled with scientific errors. Just what are we to make of such a claim? What does it mean to say that there is a “scientific error” in the Bible? While one could go mad seeking to define a scientific error (after all, philosophers […]
Are There Contradictions in the Bible?
Are There Contradictions in the Bible? By Jason Dollar and Steven B. Cowan Many skeptics and unbelievers say the Bible cannot be trusted because it contains errors and contradictions. We have never personally seen one, but antagonists continue to maintain that they are there. One online skeptic writes, “When the Bible is examined with […]
The New Religious Cultural War
By A. Eric Johnston One of the biggest things in Alabama news today is the suspension of Chief Justice Roy Moore from his position on the Alabama Supreme Court as result of a complaint by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (“JIC”). It is based on charges by those who disagree with Moore’s position on same […]
A Little Knowledge, A Dangerous Thing?
By Clete Hux Why are there so many different religions? Actually, the answer can be quite simple: because religions are different! Although there are similarities in many, the differences in religions often are the reasons why people choose one religion over another. We live in a day and age of many instead of […]