In an earlier article, I responded to a portion of Katherine Stewart’s opinion piece in The New York Times, “The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response.” You can read my original article here. She goes on to write the following: Today, the hard core of climate deniers is concentrated among people who identify as religiously conservative Republicans. And some l [...]

As usual, I found myself dealing with a prophecy expert who assured me that I am wrong because I am not reading the Bible properly. That may be true, but I must be shown from the Bible where I have missed the mark. He assured me that the temple will be rebuilt and many other standard end-time events. Here’s what he wrote: There is [sic] tons in scripture concerning these things. [...]

Leftist are at it again. They are trying to make Christians a scapegoat for all that’s bad in the world. The latest attempt is by Katherine Stewart, the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. She has written for nearly a dozen left-wing publications. She has it in for Trump voters. Here’s the lead paragraph of her opinion article “The Religious Right’s [...]

A man armed with a knife was up a tree making a disturbance outside a home… Deputies headed to the home after receiving a 911 call … On their way to the scene a second alert came in … The man was trying to break in by throwing a brick through a locked glass door that led to an enclosed porch … After getting to the porch, the man beat on the glass door to the home screaming to [...]

Dispensationalists continue to spread the false claim that the Church is something new in the New Testament. As a result, dispensationalists make a distinction between Israel and this supposed new entity called the “church.” The argument goes something like this: When Israel rejected Jesus as the Messiah, God stopped dealing with Israel and started with something that was unknown in the Old Testam [...]

The following article was suggested by American Vision supporter James M. Krutzig who wrote most of it. Former Chicago mayor and chief of staff to President Barack Obama Rahm Emanuel repeated his statement in 2008 during the financial collapse that was the result of government programs run amok, “Never allow a crisis to go to waste.” His solution to the financial crisis then and now is more govern [...]

It had to happen. The “What Would Jesus Do?” moral prescription has become a simple moniker for answering all types of social questions. It began with Charles M. Sheldon’s In His Steps that asked, “What would Jesus do?” in certain situations. The four-word moniker has been adopted and adapted by more modern questions such as “What would Jesus eat?” and “What would Jesus drive?” No electric car. Yo [...]

Gal Gadot, who played Wonder Woman in three DC films, organized some of her famous multi-millionaire friends, including Norah Jones, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Amy Adams, to sing John Lennon’s ode to atheism “Imagine” about no national borders and no possessions. Imagine having a more embarrassing response to the COVID-19 pandemic than even new- [...]

Some prophecy writers are claiming that Revelation 6 depicts what’s taking place today with earthquakes (one just hit Utah) and pestilence or plagues. Is the Coronavirus a fulfillment of Revelation 6:8?: I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, “to kill with sword and wit [...]

If there’s one passage of Scripture that is repeatedly brought up as an indictment against people who object to modern-day prophetic speculation it is 2 Peter 3:3–18. If you dispute with those who argue that all the signs around us indicate that we are living in the “last days,” then you are labeled a “scoffer” or a “mocker” (2 Peter 3:3; Jude 18). If this is how the passage is to be understood, t [...]

“You shall not steal” is a fundamental biblical commandment that’s found in both Testaments (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 19:11, 13; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9). If property is theft, as one Christian stated on his Facebook page, then every person in the world is a thief because everyone owns something. If property is theft and civil governments take property from some people so it can be given to other peo [...]

I have been looking into prophecy books that deal with the history of prophetic interpretation. Dispensationalists are trying to claim that the “rapture” and dispensationalism (it’s the “ism” that makes a difference) had a long history before John Nelson Darby. You can read some of my articles on the subject here and here. One odd prophecy book I picked up is When Will the Rapture Take Place? (201 [...]

Is the current virus pandemic a sign that we are living in the last days, a fulfillment of Bible prophecy? We encounter such pandemics every year. Tens of thousands of people die as a result. None of them, however, compare with plagues of the past: 1. Two historic plagues ravaged the Roman Empire: the Antonine Plague (165-180 A.D.) and the Cyprian Plague (249-262 A.D.). The plagues killed roughly [...]

In yesterday’s article at AmericanVision.org, I mentioned an episode of CrossPolitic Studios’ interview with Andrew L. Seidel from the Freedom From Religion Foundation about his book The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American. In several articles, Seidel shows that he’s a fan of Thomas Paine. But which Thomas Paine? Thomas Paine is often singled out as America’s true philosophical [...]

I was listening to CrossPolitic Studios last night and their interview with Andrew L. Seidel from the Freedom From Religion Foundation about his book The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American. Seidel is an atheist, so not only must he demythologize Christianity, he must demythologize all references to religion in our nation’s founding, and that can’t be done. I didn’t [...]

I’ve been corresponding with some dispensationalists on Facebook on the topic of the rapture. There are several people who claim that dispensationalism, mostly the pretrib rapture, has some historical precedent before John Nelson Darby. I don’t have enough access to historical sources to do the necessary research, so I am dependent on what other dispensationalists put forth as evidence. For exampl [...]

“We must not be satisfied to present Christianity as the most reliable position to hold among the competing options available. Rather, the Christian faith is the only reasonable outlook available to men.” ― Greg L. Bahnsen, Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended. In February 1973, Jesus Christ redeemed me in a darkly lit pub in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was in the final months of my senior [...]

Christian commentators often turn to the story of Moses and Aaron and their encounters with the magicians of Egypt as evidence that demonic miracles are real and can rival God’s miraculous works. If miracles are a way to demonstrate God’s power and authority over the created order, then “if something or someone other than God can perform miracles, then the value of miracles for a [...]

While doing my daily trek through Facebook looking for relevant news stories, I came across a post with a link to an article with this title: “The Willful Ignorance of William Lane Craig.” The author of the article takes Dr. Craig to task for his comments on the historicity of the rapture in his short video “Is the Rapture a Biblical Doctrine?” Eschatology is not Dr. Craig’s main field of study. [...]

Politics can be tiring. I need a rest from it, but it can never be escaped. In reality, politics cannot do what most people believe it can do, and when politics tries to do the things that it was never designed to do, it makes things worse. If you want the world to change, it won’t happen from the top down but the bottom up. A film that depicts something of what it takes is Frank Capra’s It’s a Wo [...]