Christianity isn’t American or Ghanaian or Chinese.
Cross Examination
Apologetics column. Our contributors answer basic questions that people, often especially our youth, have about their beliefs.
Loss is a painful part of life, and we all experience it at times—sometimes even when it comes to faith.
After encountering these stories, you might have closed your Bible and shaken your head, wondering why in the world God would put these stories in inspired Scripture.
How can we understand God’s sovereignty without logically implying that God was the creator of evil?
The intellectual climate in the West has left all of us assuming a thing is real only when we can see it or touch it.
Science is very good at some things, but it is limited.
Many treat conversion as little more than a magic spell, like a “get out of jail free” card played at a crucial moment in a losing game.
Although it has been so influential in the West, Christianity is not a Western religion. The gospel of Jesus was preached in Africa and Asia before Europe and North America.
I used to get this question (or some variation of it) all the time during my seven years as a youth pastor.
I feel that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in these questions about how to know God’s existence or goodness. It’s in the verb “to know.”