Without Excuse: Apologetics Blog

Anyone not living under a rock by now has heard of the recent terrorist attacks in Oslo, Norway in which Anders Behring Breivik was responsible for killing 76 people and injuring many more. The media has portrayed him as a Christian extremist, but was he really?  I would like to take a break from apologetics for a moment to address this issue. To quote Breivik in his own words taken from his 1500+ page manifesto he writes: "I'm not going to pretend I'm a very religious person, as that would be a lie, I've always been very pragmatic and influenced by my secular surroundings and environment." ""As for the Church and science, it is essential that science takes an undisputed precedence over biblical teachings. Europe has always been the cradle of science, and it must always continue to be that way. Regarding my personal relationship with God, I guess I'm not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic. However, I am...

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put [it] on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" (Mat 27:27-29) Shortly before Jesus was crucified the Roman soldiers put a robe around him and a crown of thorns on his head to mock him.  Matthew describes the robe as scarlet or red however Mark describes it as purple: And they clothed Him with purple; and they twisted a crown of thorns, put it on His [head] (Mark 15:17) So which is it red or purple? This seeming contradiction does have several possible explanations: -Luke 23:11 describes the robe as gorgeous.  A deeper look into the Greek word for gorgeous describes it as shining, brilliant, transparent. It's possible the robe was made of an iridescent fabric and ch...

In the Book of Daniel, Daniel has a prophetic dream about five empires: Babylon,  Medo-Persia, Greece (under Alexander the Great), and lastly the Anti-Christ's empire (Dan 2). At the time Daniel was living under the Babylonian Empire. Since then all but the last empire have come and gone. That last empire is built upon three pillars:government, economy, and religion (Rev 13\17). To get an idea of where we are prophetically, we must compare our world as it is today to the world of the Anti-Christ. One World Government: The last world empire is a global government headed by a political leader, the Anti-Christ. Anti-Christ simply means in place of Christ. Two things have to happen for world government to transpire. One is for the nations of the world to start coming together. This is already in progress. First there was the League of Nations followed by the United Nations. GATT and The World Trade Organization have tired together regions into political and economic unions. The 21st...

And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; [it was] completely round. Its height [was] five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 1 Kings 7:23 The object described above was a round bowl to be used in the first Jewish temple. King Solomon hired Hiram, a Phoenician, to design and supervise the building of temple and the instruments used within. The critique is that the circumference and diameter given in 1 King 7:23 does not equal Pi (3.14) but instead equals 3 and is therefore inaccurate. The logic is that if there are errors in the bible how can it be trusted? First let me say I'm terrible when it comes to math, so I'm not going to do some fancy calculations. Others have claimed to have worked it out to 3.14 so I'll leave that to them. Instead I'll point out a few observations on the matter: *Hiram was just a man and was therefore capable of making mistakes. To err is human. *Measurements were not stan...

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