by Karlo Broussard | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In our quest to discover whether Jesus is Emmanuel (God with us), it is necessary that we concern ourselves with Jesus’ miracles. For if Jesus performed miracles, then we have good reason to believe that Jesus is who he says he is: the exclusive son of the Father...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 14, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Not long ago I had a nice chat with some Jehovah’s Witness ladies who came to my door. After kicking off the conversation with small talk, we got down to business. They started by saying, “You may have heard that we’re not Christian, but I assure you we are.” I asked...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman says that we can’t trust the Gospels in their reports about Jesus’ resurrection. His basic argument is that the Gospels are “hopelessly contradictory” (The Historical Jesus). In his 2006 debate with William Lane Craig,...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 25, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Skeptics will argue that Jesus’ resurrection is just one more instance of the dying-and-rising-god motif prevalent in the religions of the ancient Near East. The Scottish social anthropologist James Frazer popularized this motif in his 1890 book The Golden...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 14, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
If you could wave a magic wand to get rid of either rape or religion, which would you choose? Popular atheist Sam Harris would choose religion. In a 2006 interview he argued, “more people are dying as a result of our religious myths than as a result of any other...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 20, 2016 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Let’s say you’re talking to a skeptic, and he makes the claim, “Jesus never said he was God. That’s something his disciples later ascribed to him—like it was to the Buddha.” What would your response be? I bet you would turn to Jesus’ “I Am” statement in John 8:58 and...
