By Craig Branch – (The introduction article to The Aeropaus Journal Stretching the Truth Volume 4 Number 4, July-August 2004) This issue of Areopagus Journal is devoted to providing an understanding of yoga and the current yoga phenomena in our country. The most common questions on a popular level are, “Can a Christian practice yoga?”; … Read More
by Terry L. Wilder The subject of whether or not the Bible supports same-sex relationships is hotly disputed by many today. Since we are discussing in this Baptist context[1] what the New Testament says about homosexuality, please allow me to make a few remarks before proceeding with this presentation. First, I assume that I am … Read More
by Clete Hux Long before the temptation in the garden, Lucifer desired to be like God. Really he wanted to take God’s place. Scripture records him wanting to ascend into the heavens to be like the most high God (Isa. 14:13-14). We know the story and the pride manifested by Satan. Even after having been … Read More
by Steven B. Cowan One of the marks of a cult or pseudo-Christian religion is that its members believe in a false Jesus, a Jesus other than the Jesus revealed in the Bible. Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, deny that Jesus is God, believing instead that he is a created being— the Archangel Michael. Mormons will … Read More
by Robert M. Bowman, Jr. One of the most controversial movements in Christianity today is a network of Pentecostal pastors and televangelists who are best known for their message of bodily health and financial prosperity through faith. If you believe—and if you confess, or say out loud, that you believe—these teachers assure us that you … Read More
by Steven B. Cowan – This is the apologetics question. Every other question that someone might ask regarding the defense of the faith is related in some way to this bottom-line query: How do we know that Christianity is true? Elsewhere in this issue, James Beilby and David Clark have outlined for us a general … Read More
by James Beilby and David K. Clark How can we know the world around us? How can we know God? How can we know anything at all? These are some of the questions of epistemology, the study of theories of knowledge. Epistemology has two main goals. First, we want to find as much truth as … Read More
by J. P. Moreland There is a very important cultural fact that Christians must face when they undertake the task of apologetics: There simply is no established, widely recognized body of ethical or religious knowledge now operative in the institutions of knowledge in our culture, e.g., the universities. Indeed, ethical and religious claims are frequently … Read More
by Rich Milne Animal rights is much in the news. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protests against the furs Hollywood stars wear. There are new revelations about the conditions animals are kept in before they are slaughtered for food, or how rabbits have hair dye put into their eyes for days on … Read More
Point: Puzzling Over Climate Change Skepticism by David P. Gushee I am puzzled about the vociferous opposition among some evangelicals to doing anything about the problem of climate change. Actually, t he issue is not fundamentally the opposition to doing something about climate change – it is the opposition to even acknowledging the reality of … Read More
Counterpoint: Puzzling Over Global Warming Alarmism by Paul A. Cleveland It puzzles me why so many people, often very well educated, have bought into global warming alarmism hook, line, and sinker. As an economist, I have been skeptical of such doom – saying throughout my career and I see nothing in the current campaign to … Read More
By Mark Coppenger The current choir of atheists has taken up an old refrain, singing of their own moral superiority to those who follow the Bible. Not content to fault particular Christians for their shortcomings and hypocrisies, they presume to criticize the Bible itself, and even Jesus, for unsavory teachings and behavior. In this article, … Read More
By Richard G. Howe The Bible is a book of history. Certainly it is more – poetry, theology, prophecy – but it is also history. This is so because Judaism and Christianity are religions grounded in history. While it is true that Judaism and Christianity contain a philosophy of life, they are not mere philosophies … Read More
By Dr. Ronald V. Huggins In her new book The Journey Home (2023), Christian enneagram teacher Meredith Boggs writes: In my fifteen-plus years of learning, teaching, and writing about the Enneagram, I have yet to encounter one person who has converted to New Ageism, who started engaging in occult practices, or who walked away from … Read More
by Rev. Clete Hux A few months ago I got a call from a friend wanting to know my opinion of The Chosen, a television series that has become very popular. I had not really watched much of it, just a few snippets here and there. So, I decided to do some research and discovered … Read More