Apprentice Owl Apologetics

I saw a video during my Sunday service about the floods of people that are coming to church for Easter or Christmas, maybe they only come once a year, or are interested in what all the hubbub is about. For those interested, it follows that they might have questions. Now, I have written plenty about scholarly questions to Christian faith, but does this mean that everyone should have these answers? Not necessarily, because many times the questions are not scholarly, but emotional. We should be able to answer these as well. These types of questions will be case by case, so a systematic rulebook of answers cannot be written here. However, the Bible does give us some guidelines in how to talk to one another. We are called in Colossians to let our speech be seasoned with salt and grace (Colossians 4:6). In 1 Peter 3:15, we are commanded to deliver our answers with gentleness and respect. These are general sweeping statements on how we are to conduct our speech, so let’s apply them to our...

                 This is my 100 th post, and after a little over 5 years of this ministry has taught me one thing, that there will always be questions to answer. As long as the world remains as it is, people will possess a curiosity that drives them to seek out the truth of the world. What I have found is that certain people have issues with religion and Christianity because they have “too many unanswered questions”. What I want to show today is that questions are not a bad thing, and that you need to eventually come to faith as a means of getting certain questions answered.                 What I want to do first is to show that this attitude of “too many questions” is hypocritical, especially if you are someone who trusts in the scientific process. Science is all about answering questions, but there are plenty of areas that we have little information about (Ph.D...