[button link=”http://www.podcastrevolution.com/viewpodcast.php?pid=2823″ variation=”sky”]Listen via Podcast[/button] As August draws to a close, millions of young men and women are headed off (or back) to college where they will, hopefully, have their horizons expanded and their minds sharpened. Unfortunately, for those Christians among them, college will also likely be a place where their faith is tested. Now,…
Dr. Craig Smith walks through some basic tools that anyone can use to understand the Bible. This is live footage captured at the Pure Truth Pastors Conference in Harare, Zimbabwe in May-June of 2013. If you would like the handouts that go along with this training session, download them here: Foundations 1 Part 2 coming…
It is widely known that one of the most important tenets of Jewish faith is the oneness of God. For millennia, faithful descendants of Abraham have affirmed their strict monotheism by starting each day by reciting the Shema (“Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one!”; Deu 6:4). Given the centrality…
Q: How did the literalist interpretation of Christianity win out over that of the Gnostics? A: It didn’t. The Gnostic “interpretation” came considerably later than the orthodox Christian teachings about Jesus. In most cases, what we call Gnostic Christian writings were written 100 years (and in some cases 200-500 years) after the orthodox Christian writings…
Ok, that sounds like the beginning of a cheesy joke, but the truth is no laughing matter. The recently revealed “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”, as some media outlets took to calling it, is yet another example of modern skepticism about the reliability of the canonical Gospels. It’s hard to get anyone to pay attention to…