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Apologetics Press exists to defend New Testament Christianity by providing biblically, logically, and scientifically sound resources that equip the Church, evangelize the lost, and uphold the truth of God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Translation Differences Are Decipherable (Lesson 9)
Has the Bible been corrupted in its transmission? Can we know that we have the New Testament that God intended us to have? Consider that the Bible text we have…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: The Translation Process Works (Lesson 8)
How do we know the Bible was preserved accurately? First, we have seen that the Greek text has been authenticated and textual variants are minimal. This lesson…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Weighing Textual Variants (Part 4) (Lesson 7)
In evaluating textual variants, we have seen how the variants affect very little the doctrinal teachings of the Bible. This last segment covering textual…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Weighing Textual Variants (Part 3) (Lesson 6)
Has the Bible been corrupted? Consider the explanation of the process for evaluating specific manuscript variants. Seeing the resolution illustrates the…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Weighing Textual Variants (Part 2) (Lesson 5)
One of the best ways to be assured of the Bible’s integrity is to see the process for how manuscript variants are resolved. Consider specific verse examples…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Weighing Textual Variants (Part 1) (Lesson 4)
How do scholars distinguish between textual variants, and what criteria are used to sort out differences? The vast majority of manuscript variations involve…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Intentional Errors (Lesson 3)
As copies of the Bible were being made, sometimes the scribes or monks who were transcribing the texts introduced intentional changes. These were not sinister…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Unintentional Errors (Lesson 2)
During the first few centuries after Jesus’ death, the Bible was transmitted through copies of the original letters. Since persecution was intense against…
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Has The Bible Been Corrupted: Introduction (Lesson 1)
Has the Bible been corrupted? Can we be sure the Bible is God’s Word? Skeptics, atheists, and other religions have aggressively attacked the Bible for…
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Challenging Bible Verses: Did Paul Celebrate Slavery? (Lesson 9)
Does the Bible celebrate slavery, as some contend? Was Jesus pro-slavery? Should Christians be embarrassed by what the Bible teaches on this subject? Delve…
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Challenging Bible Verses: Is God Misogynistic? (Lesson 8)
Does God hate women? Does the Bible teach that women are inferior to men? And must a wife, according to the Bible, really submit to her husband? What is the…
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Challenging Bible Verses: Did Jesus Mistakenly Predict the End of the World? (Lesson 7)
Was Jesus mistaken in Matthew 24:34? Did He audaciously (yet incorrectly) predict that the end of the world would be in the first century?
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Challenging Bible Verses: How Could a Loving God Command the Destruction of the Canaanites? (Lesson 6)
Allegedly, God is a murderer. Among other things, He instructed the Israelites to kill countless Canaanites. How can Christians logically and justifiably…
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Challenging Bible Verses: Did God Accept Jephthah’s Daughter as a Sacrifice? (Lesson 5)
Are Jephthah’s actions in Judges 11 proof that God condones literal human sacrifices? Consider what some consider “a top 10 worst Bible passage.”
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Challenging Bible Verses: Is God Jealous and Insecure? (Lesson 4)
Why did God feel the need to condemn idolatry? Is He insecure, as some skeptics contend? And how can a good, loving God also be a jealous God? Consider a…
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Challenging Bible Verses: How Could a Good God Command Abraham to Kill His Son? (Lesson 3)
Does the God of the Bible delight in bloodshed from His followers? In Genesis 22:2, why did He ask Abraham to offer up his son as a human sacrifice? Is God…
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Challenging Bible Verses: Did God Encourage “Dashing Babies Against Rocks”? (Lesson 2)
Leading atheists allege that Psalm 137 teaches that God wants His people to dash babies against the rocks and be happy about it. Is this actually what Psalm…
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Challenging Bible Verse: Did God Condone Lot Offering His Daughters To Be Raped? (Lesson 1)
Did God condone Lot’s actions in Genesis 19:8 when he offered his daughters to the men of Sodom? Some contend that Lot’s conduct and the Bible writers’ praise…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: True Science and the Genome (Lesson 6)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: The Flood and the Fossil Record (Lesson 5)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: Radiometric Dating (Part 2) (Lesson 4)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: Radiometric Dating (Part 1) (Lesson 3)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: Keep the Goal in Mind (Lesson 2)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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True Science Is the Christian’s Friend: The Origin of the Universe (Lesson 1)
True science is catching up with the Bible. True science is the Christian’s friend, and as Romans 1:20 reminds us, it can be used as a powerful tool for…
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Butt/Barker Debate: Does the God of the Bible Exist?
The Butt-Barker debate was conducted on the campus of the University of South Carolina in Columbia on February 12, 2009 before a capacity crowd of over 550…
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Butt/Scott Debate: Does God Exist?
The Butt-Scott debate was conducted on the campus of the University of North Alabama in Florence on September 29, 2011, before a capacity crowd of over 1,600…
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Butt/Ehrman Debate—Pain, Suffering, and God’s Existence
Debate on Suffering and the existence of God between Kyle Butt and Bart Ehrman that took place on the campus of the University of North Alabama on April 4…
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The Silencing of God- Solutions (Lesson 5)
The final session of this seminar spotlights the two premiere moral issues confronting American civilization–issues that will inevitably elicit divine…
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Silencing of God- Public Education (Lesson 4)
Session #4 of this seminar demonstrates how public education in America from the Founding era up until World War II was laced with Bible morality and Christian…
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The Silencing of God- National Architecture (Lesson 3)
Session #3 demonstrates America’s religious heritage as manifested on our money, and our national memorials and monuments. The evidence for the nation’s…
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The Silencing of God- Political Documents
Session #2 of this seminar presents multiple political utterances from the Founding Fathers that verify America’s religious heritage. The historical evidence…
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The Silencing of God- Withering Roots (Lesson 1)
Session #1 of “The Silencing of God” seminar introduces the sinister attempt to expunge manifestations of God, Christ, and the Bible from American life–in…
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Flooded: Are Fossils on Mountains Evidence of the Flood? (Lesson 22)
Secular geologists have a non-Flood explanation for how ocean creature fossils are found in mountains, but does it adequately explain the evidence?
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Flooded: Does Evil in the Animal Kingdom Disprove a Good God? (Lesson 21)
Christians claim that God is the source of morality. If an all-good God designed the Universe, why would there be cases of “natural evil” (i.e., evil in the…
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Flooded: Is God Unloving for Drowning the World in the Flood? (Lesson 20)
How can God’s violent judgment on the world in the Flood be reconciled with the love of God? Is God too harsh? Is punishment unloving?
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Flooded: God- Perfect in ALL of His Attributes (Lesson 19)
Some picture God as a harsh, overbearing tyrant. Others visualize Him as a “cosmic Grandpa” Who would let them get away with murder. Having a proper…
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Flooded: Do Canyons Prove an Old Earth? (Lesson 18)
The measured rate of canyon erosion today is relatively low, indicating that many canyons took hundreds of thousands to millions of years to erode. The Bible…
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Flooded: Do Caves Take Tens of Thousands of Years to Form? (Lesson 17)
According to conventional thinking, most caves take several thousand years to form using slow processes. If true, the Earth would appear to be much older than…
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Flooded: How Do We Know Which Fossils Are Human? (Lesson 16)
Are homo sapiens the only “humans,” or can other hominins from the past be categorized as human as well? Can we know?
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Flooded: Do Tree Rings & Ice Cores Prove an Old Earth (Lesson 15)
Some have argued that tree ring patterns and the layers of ice found in the polar ice caps disprove the biblical Flood and a young age of the Earth as implied…
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Flooded: Are There Evidence that Humans & Dinosaurs Coexisted? (Lesson 14)
According to the Bible, humans and dinosaurs once lived on the Earth at the same time. Are there archaeological evidences that support the Bible’s claim?
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Flooded: How Did Dinosaurs Fit on the Ark? (Lesson 13)
Some dinosaurs by themselves are over three stories in height. Others are over 120 feet long. If the biblical Flood happened, how did dinosaurs fit on the Ark?
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Flooded: Other Historical Evidences of a Global Flood (Lesson 12)
If a global Flood like the one described in the Bible ever happened, stories of its occurrence would have been passed down over the centuries. That is exactly…
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Flooded: What Happened in the Flood: The Nuts & Bolts (Lesson 11)
What does modern science indicate happened in the Flood of Noah, beyond what Scripture tells us? Does modern science support the biblical Flood?
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Flooded: Have Evolutionists Proved That the Earth Is Billions of Years Old? (Lesson 10)
Do evolutionary dating techniques–from radioisotope dating techniques to canyon erosion, dendrochronology, speleogenesis, tectonic plate movement, ice cores…
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Flooded: Fossil Proof of the Giants (Lesson 9)
The Bible speaks of the existence of enormous humans in the past–individuals over nine feet tall. Does the fossil record support that contention?
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Flooded: The Fossil Record Supports Biblical Creation (Lesson 8)
While naturalistic scientists claim that the fossil record is proof of evolution, upon studying the evidence, one finds that the three sweeping traits of the…
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Flooded: Has the Bible Been Faithfully Copied Over the Centuries? (Lesson 7)
Even if the Bible was originally authored by God, how do we know it has been copied faithfully through the centuries? Has the Bible been corrupted through its…
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Flooded: Evidences for the Bible's Inspiration (Lesson 6)
Can a person know that the Bible really was authored by God, rather than mere men? The Bible has divine characteristics (like its unity, brevity, and…
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Flooded: How Do We Know Which God Exists? (Lesson 5)
Even if we can know that A god exists, how do we know that that god is specifically the God of the Bible?
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Flooded: Design in the Universe Proves a Universe Designer (Lesson 4)
If a poem demands the existence of a poet, then design demands the existence of a designer. The Universe contains billions of examples of design, proving that…
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Flooded: Evidences for the Existence of God (Lesson 3)
There are several logical arguments that demand that God must exist (e.g., the Cosmological, Aesthetic, Intuitional, Moral, and Teleological Arguments)…
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Flooded: Scientific Laws: Proof of God (Lesson 2)
The mere existence of the laws of science logically demands the existence of God. Specific laws, like the Law of Cause and Effect and the Law of Biogenesis…
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Flooded: Is Belief in Creation Science a Blind Faith? (Lesson 1)
Many claim that biblical faith is a blind, evidence-less belief. The Bible, however, does not support that view. On the contrary, the Bible claims that God has…
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Proof For God: Pangaea & the Bible (Lesson 18)
While we see numerous different continents on Earth’s surface today, there seems to be some evidence for these continents being joined together into one large…
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Proof For God: What Caused the Universe? (Lesson 17)
What could have caused our Universe to exist? If every material effect we see has a cause, and the Universe is material, then what caused it to exist? Follow…
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Proof For God: Looking Closer for Design (Lesson 16)
When we look at the Universe, do we see a design in its structure? Since anything that is designed requires a designer, then design in the Universe would…
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Proof For God: Faith & Reason (Lesson 15)
What is the relationship between faith and reason? Is faith a warm, fuzzy belief without evidence? Is scientific reasoning in contrast to biblical faith?…
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Proof For God: How Did Life Begin? (Lesson 14)
How did life begin? If the Cosmos is all that there is, all that there was, and all that there ever will be, then how could life come from non-life? What does…
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Proof For God: Moral Values & Atheism (Lesson 13)
Have you ever done anything morally right or morally wrong? The answer to this question has a serious bearing on the existence of God. If there is no God, then…