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Answers In Action Articles: Apologetics and Atheism
- A Letter from Norm R. Allen of “Free Inquiry Magazine” to the Passantinos regarding their article Imagine There’s No Heaven
- Apollonius of Tyana: A Rival to Christ
- Appeal Denied: How Challenging the Verdict Fails to Overturn The Case for Christ
- Contemporary Atheism Speaks Out In Humanist Manifesto 2000: Imagine There’s No Heaven
- Contemporary Atheism Speaks Out In Humanist Manifesto 2000: Religion, Truth, and Value Without God
- Change Your Mind
- Christian Apologetics Manifesto, by Douglas Groothius
- How Far Can We Trust The Bible?
- The 2002 Great Debate: Atheism vs Christianity, Testing the Case: Which View Prevailed? Passantino view of debate between Michael Newdow and Cliffe Knechtle
- The Didactic Fallacy
- Is Evolution a Creation Myth?
- Gordon R. Lewis reviews A Tapestry of Faiths: The Common Threads between Christianity and World Religions By Winfried Corduan.
- Fantasies, Legends, and Heroes Fantasies, Legends, and Heroes: Bob Passantino’s talk presented to the Evangelical Ministry to New Religions Conference outlining some of the basic critical thinking skills needed to have an effective cult apologetics ministry.
- The Sweet Fragrance of Clear Thinking
- A Fresh Agenda for Apologetics in the 21st Century John Morehead
- The Golden Rule Apologetic. How the Golden rule applies to Apologetics
- Was Hitler a Christian?
- Hot Thoughts
- Does Jesus Teach that God Is Unjust?
- James Ossuary, Bone Box, Hoax or History?
- Answers In Action: Facts About the Jesus Seminar and Founder Robert W. Funk
- The Mission Field on Your Desktop
- Can God create a stone so heavy that He cannot move it?
- How Can You Say Jesus Is the Only Way to God?
- Answers In Action: An Abbreviated Philosophical Glossary
- FAQ file regarding the Great Pyramid
- IS TRUTH RELATIVE?
- If God Is Good, Why Is There So Much Suffering in the World?
- Atheism vs. Christianity, A Response to Unanswered Questions
IS TRUTH RELATIVE?
(A dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras) Protagoras: Truth is relative. It is only a matter of opinion. Socrates: You mean that truth is mere subjective opinion? Protagoras: Exactly. What is true for you is true for you, and what is true for me, is true for me. Truth is subjective. Socrates: Do you really mean […]
AIA FAQ file on the Great Pyramid
© 1994 by John Baskette. I do not know any book in any of several libraries and book stores I visited that did a broad based debunking of pyramidology. Even the chapter in Martin Gardner’s _Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science_, while good, contained inaccuracies. The Los Angeles astronomer and UCLA professor E.C. […]
An Abbreviated Philosophical Glossary
© 1998 by Bob and Gretchen Passantino absolute — That which is unconditioned, uncaused, not limited by anything outside itself. aesthetics — The philosophical category concerned with values other than moral; e.g., art, beauty, creativity, etc. agnosticism — Literally, “without knowledge.” Usually used to refer to someone who does not know if God exists. A “hard” agnostic says […]
How Can You Say Jesus Is the Only Way to God?
People who challenge Christians with “How can you say Jesus is the only way to God?” are good at verbal camouflage, what sounds like concern for tolerance but which is actually belief that Jesus is not qualified to declare the way to God. Their problem is not with tolerance, but with Jesus’ authority. Promoters of […]
Facts About the Jesus Seminar and Founder Robert W. Funk
200 members; fewer than 40 published in the field; 74 contributed to The Five Gospels. No one is from a conservative school. Authenticity is determined on a sliding scale by means of color-coded voting beads. The Five Gospels is printed in colors to signify the results of the voting. Red type indicates passages “are considered by the Seminar to be […]
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The James Bone Box: Hoax or History?
© Copyright 2003 by John Baskette In October of 2002 the Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) reported a major new archeological discovery. They announced that the burial box of James the Brother of Jesus was found in Jerusalem. This box had inscribed on it the words, “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” The inscription, if […]
Hot Thoughts
By Bob Passantino, ©Copyright 1989 by Bob Passantino. There’s a difference between a platitude and a “hot thought.” A platitude sounds nice, makes you feel good, and makes others think you know what you’re talking about. Example: “What’s meant to be, will be.” A “hot thought,” on the other hand, is a principle, often expressed […]
The Golden Rule Apologetic
© Copyright 2003 by Bob Passantino Nearly everyone is familiar with the “Golden Rule” even if they don’t realize that it comes to us in its perfect form as a command of Jesus: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets” […]
A Fresh Agenda for Apologetics in the 21st Century
By John W. Morehead, ©Copyright 2004 by John W. Morehead Apologetics remains an important tool for the church in the new millennium. It is a discipline that helps in the proclamation of the gospel by concentrating on the presentation of answers to questions and clarifications about Christian belief. As Avery Dulles’ historical survey shows, in […]
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