Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                 I really didn’t want to get political so soon after I said was taking a break from this topic, and I really didn’t want a high profile topic like abortion, but God has a sense of humor like this, and I feel I must put in my two cents. Maybe it’s because I have plenty of pro-choice friends on social media blasting their pride in abortions (or the fact that people should be able to choose to kill their fetus) and even so-called conservative pages condemning Alabama and Georgia in their new laws being passed (and Missouri for considering it). Some of these people fought past issues with fertility to have the children they have in their arms today, so the apparent hypocrisy that I see infuriates me as well as breaks my heart. I wanted to give my thoughts on abortion, look at scripture to see if God values the unborn, and what I think the United States government should be doing about it. I don’t want to bash anyone, but I did w...

                 Eye-catching title aside, I wanted to write this as a sort of blanket response to critics of Christianity who like to nitpick certain aspects of scripture, such as slavery, polygamy, violence, and the like. The Bible is a collection of books, and these books are from multiple genres, such as history, poetry, ethics, songs, and so on. Focusing specifically on history, the Bible covers the history of the people of Israel, and other parties, necessary to understand the scope of God’s plan for humanity and the need for a savior. This history includes it all, and doesn’t white wash any of the players involved, showing their triumphs and failures. This is just the nature of a good historical narrative, and it doesn’t mean that we should do everything that the heroes of scripture that we learn about in Sunday school should do.                 For example...

On March 21, 2019, the UK Immigration Department rejected an asylum seeker, citing verses from Leviticus, Exodus, and Revelation to state that Christianity was not a peaceful religion. What I want to do today is to take a look at the Immigration Department’s claim about Christianity and see if what they have quoted is just cherry picked. So in a sweeping statement, Exodus and Leviticus were written as part of the Old Testament, and a little over 1000 years before Christianity came about, as part of the Old Covenant, which was fulfilled through Christ. The Old Covenant is also tied to the land that God wanted for the nation of Israel. It did involve God commanding Israel to drive out nations before them, but it was also God’s judgment on those other nations for their wicked deeds, such as child sacrifice. If anything these verses show a temporary command of violence for Judaism, but it was just that, temporary. Even here we digress, because we are talking about the “violence” of Chr...