Explaining Away Jesus’ Resurrection: The Recent Revival of Hallucination Theories

10 years ago

By Dr. Gary Habermas Abstract to the article: After almost a century of virtual dormancy, a number of naturalistic alternative hypotheses regarding Jesus' resurrection have appeared in recent publications.  Similar to the situation at the end of the Nineteenth Century, hallucination and related subjective approaches are again the most popular...

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Jesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic (Part 2)

10 years ago

By Dr. Gary Habermas An excerpt from the article: …The chief purpose for the remainder of this essay will be to determine, by continuing both to investigate and utilize critical methodology, if the cause of the original eyewitnesses' faith can be further ascertained. If such verification is found, it will...

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Jesus’ Resurrection and Contemporary Criticism: An Apologetic (Part 1)

10 years ago

By Dr. Gary Habermas Here is an excerpt from the article: ...Therefore, considering the issue of Jesus' resurrection is of prime importance. I agree with those who assert that the historicity of this event is a major question, for it is upon this aspect that the truthfulness of Christian theology...

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A State’s Obligation to Fund Hormonal Therapy and Sex-reassignment Surgery for Prisoners Diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder

10 years ago

Abstract: This article explores whether a state law imposing a flat ban on the use of funds to provide cross-gender hormones or sex-reassignment surgery for prisoners diagnosed with GID satisfies the Eighth Amendment standard of deliberately indifferent to serious medical needs. In other words, the issue is whether it constitutes...

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“Did God Really Command Genocide? Summary of Chapter 6: Thrusting Out, Driving Out, and Dispossessing the Canaanites Not Annihilating Them”

10 years ago

By Dr. Mark Foreman A legend is told of a wealthy Texas rancher who owned a sprawling expanse of land in western Texas.  It was hundreds of acres is size and stretched out far beyond the horizon.  On this land he raised cattle that would annually be driven north to...

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Paradigm Shift: A Challenge to Naturalism

10 years ago

By Dr. Gary Habermas "Idealism was the dominant philosophy in the Western world in the early 20th century, a holdover from its prominence in the previous century. Stressing the metaphysical reality of mind or spirit and the epistemological centrality of ideas, idealism stood in stark contrast to naturalism, which took...

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Evidence for the Historical Jesus: Is the Jesus of History the Christ of Faith?

10 years ago

By Dr. Gary Habermas "Abstract: The search for the historical Jesus is a hot topic in both popular and academic circles today and has drawn a lot of attention from national magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Further, the media has given an undue amount...

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Why Sex is Not Always About the Sex

10 years ago

By Dr. Linda Mintle If you watch most television shows, you would think that the most important part of any relationship is sex! But when it comes to what matters most in a relationship, it’s not the sex. And if we focus only on sex, the relationship won’t sustain. Biological anthropologist,...

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The Bible, Same-sex Sexual Activity, and the Parameters for Flourishing (Part 1)

10 years ago

By Dr. Chad Thornhill It may surprise those outside of the field of biblical studies that there has been intense debate in recent decades over the meaning of the handful of passages in the Bible which seem to condemn same-sex sexual activity. These passages, sometimes referred to as “clobber” texts,...

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Mailbag: The Devil Made Us Smarter?

10 years ago

By Dr. David Baggett A reader of the site [MoralApologetics.com] asked for help responding to this: "The devil gave humans critical thinking which God didn’t want us to have. God wanted us to not eat from the tree of knowledge so we could be thought-slaves for eternity, but the devil...

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