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Fact-Checking the Viral Post Connecting Human Anatomy and the Bible

...biblical truth, but it isn’t discovered in a lab. Final Thoughts The viral post mixes real scientific insights with poetic symbolism, but it often blurs the lines between fact and metaphor. What concerns me most is when such language undermines central Christian truths — especially the eternal pre-existence and sustaining power of Christ. Jesus did not “hold the earth for 33 years” and then stop; He has always been the Word through whom all things exist, and He continues to uphold creation even now (Colossians 1:17, Hebrews 1:3). Yes, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). And yes, the human body reflects God’...

Did Herod’s Massacre Of The Innocents Historically Happen?

...poses the truth about Jesus, and that truth provokes fear in those who cling to power. Herod’s response is brutal, but entirely consistent with his character, and tragically ordinary. A Small Tragedy with Cosmic Weight The modest scale of the massacre does not weaken Matthew’s account, though, it strengthens it. This is not the language of mythic exaggeration or legendary inflation. It is the sort of event that would have unfolded quietly and locally, devastating to those who experienced it, yet almost invisible to the wider world — remembered by families and villages, long before it was ever written down. This also explains why the account in Matt...

On the Feast of the Nativity, a sermon by Leo the Great

...ge you in truth Who ransomed you in mercy, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit reigns for ever and ever. Amen....

An ancient fragment mentions Jesus' wife!?

...hide the "truth" about Jesus: that he married Mary Magdalene and had children. But before we all get too carried away at the so-called implications of this, lets now forget one thing: Jesus being a bridegroom and having a bride (ie. a wife) is in the Gospels and New Testament all along. In his parables, Jesus often referred to, or implied himself as the bridegroom (Matthew 9:15; Mk 2:19; Lk 5:34), whilst the people of the Kingdom of God were a part of the bridal or wedding party (Matthew 25:1-13; Jn 3:29). In Paul's second letter to the Corinthian church, he speaks of them as a bride to be presented to Christ, the husband (2 Cor 11:2), and also to the Ephesi...

Are There Levels of Sin?

...ge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment..." If you commit a "lesser sin" you are still guilty just as much as if you commit a "greater sin", much in the same as criminals in a court of law. Yet even then, those who are first time offenders, or didn't necessarily act maliciously, can receive a reduced sentence. In a similar fashion, Jesus would seem to teach that the punishment will indeed 'fit the crime' as it were, which gives me a greater sense and view of God's justice being actually just and not some type of binary black/white system which portrays God in an unjust and very robotic fashion (ie. "yo...

Lent: Day 16 - Justin Martyr: First Apology, Chaps. 48-59

...a seed of truth within. This was done in order to deceive, though the demons, misunderstanding the symbolism of the cross, never made any of their false gods die from crucifixion; and people like Plato who alluded to a divine entity being placed “crosswise” at the centre of the universe didn't understand it either and was in fact borrowing from Moses who wrote these things long before any of the Greek or Roman gods and prophets came along. There is a lot of doctrine and theology contained in these chapters, a lot which is still very relevant for apologetics today, some which might serve as a starting point. I’d recommend everyone take some time to read t...