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...
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...
