by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
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...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
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...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 3, 2020 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
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...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 18, 2019 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Today we encounter Jesus’ cry from the cross: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mark 15:34). Although it’s a small detail within a larger narrative, it can be a huge obstacle when it comes to our faith. Why should I hope in Jesus, someone might say, when...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
There are many ways to argue for the historical reliability of the Gospels. One compelling approach is to point to what nineteenth-century Anglican priest J.J. Blunt called “undesigned coincidences.” These occur when you have two texts containing pieces of information...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 3, 2018 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
When asked what it would take for them to believe in God, atheists often say that something miraculous, like a cut-off limb growing back, would move them to belief. They intuit that if being could be given where there is non-being, there must be a transcendent cause...
