In a previous article, I argued that John’s phrase “the day of preparation of Passover” (John 18:28) doesn’t refer to the day on which Jews prepare for Passover, but the Friday of Passover week. This resolves what some have said is a contradiction between John and the...
If sin is finite, how can it possibly be just for someone to go to hell for all eternity? Isn’t it unfair to give an eternal punishment for a crime that took a finite time to commit? I answer this objection to hell in this clip from Catholic Answers...
The narratives of Jesus’ passion and death are among the most sacred elements of Scripture for Christians. For skeptics, however, they’re often used as a punching bag. The claim is that they’re historically unreliable because the Gospels supposedly contradict...
Every year during Holy Week, Christians focus on those last and most important moments of Jesus’s life: his passion and death. But for some, these gospel narratives aren’t historically reliable because they apparently contradict each other in certain places. We’re...
Whenever we’re faced with suffering and death in our lives, especially as we see the suffering and death caused by Covid-19, we can’t help but ask, “Was this how God intended it to be?” We struggle with the idea that God would have willed such suffering and death from...
