by Karlo Broussard | Feb 19, 2024 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
There’s no shortage of details in the New Testament that skeptics use to undermine the historical credibility of the Gospels. One is the timing of Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple. John places the event at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry (John 2:13-22). The Synoptics,...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 5, 2023 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In Exodus 1:15, Pharoah commands two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, to kill every Hebrew male child among them coming out the womb. But neither of them did as Pharaoh commanded because they “feared God” (v.17). When Pharaoh asked them why they had let the male...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 28, 2023 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Here’s a skeptical meme I recently came across: There are three problems with this (admittedly kind of funny) picture. Let’s take the first: Christians neglect the poor. This hardly seems worth the trouble to rebut. More than any other group you can identify, for...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 7, 2021 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
It often happens there exist obstacles that block people from even beginning to take seriously the God question. Several of these obstacles have to do with a disposition to be hostile to or skeptical of religion in general. We’ve already looked at a few in previous...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 30, 2021 | Articles, Catholic Answers Live, Christian Apologetics
Skeptics often argue that the New Testament authors weren’t concerned with faithfully conveying a historically accurate portrait of Jesus. Rather, the argument goes, these authors cared more about using Jesus of Nazareth as a device to push their respective agendas....
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 4, 2021 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In the Q&A session of a 2006 lecture, atheist Richard Dawkins was asked, “What if you’re wrong?” Dawkins responded: Well, what if I am wrong? I mean, anybody could be wrong. You happen to have been brought up, I would presume, in the Christian faith. You know what...
