Sep 3, 2010

I receive emails attempting to refute the rather obvious contradiction between the Genealogies of Jesus listed in Matthew and Luke all the time.  The two accounts disagree on almost everything, starting with Joseph’s father.  Luke says Joseph is the son of Heli, Matthew says he’s the son of Jacob.  The genealogies don’t line up again until...

Aug 18, 2010

Here is another claim I receive quite often.  Christians will claim that people are sent to Hell because that’s what they want.  No, really!  Apparently an eternity of eternal torment is appealing to some people.  So God, being the great guy he is, gives them exactly what they want.  This argument was sent to me recently in an email response to my...

Jul 21, 2010

Earlier I responded to an email from Benjamin criticizing my rebuttal of the Kalam Cosmological Argument.  He is still attempted to defend it. Hello: Saying that something begins to exist is simply self explanatory. Hello Benjamin, That depends on your definition of “begins to exist.” The sense of cars and those other things beginning to exist is...

Jul 20, 2010

I received an email from a Christian saying I misrepresented the Kalam Cosmological Argument in my video, Poor Apologetics 5. Hey man: If you’re going to take a look at the Kalam Cosmological Argument, then you need to properly represent how the argument is stated. You said, on the video, that William Lane Craig’s argument goes like this: Anything...

Jul 11, 2010

Many Christians believe Jesus’ death on the cross was the ultimate act of love – however, if Jesus is God, and Jesus died in order to take on the sins of the world so he could pay the “wage of sin” … that means God paid himself. God paying a wage to himself is equivalent to taking money from one pocket and moving it to...