What Holds it All Together?

What Holds it All Together?

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Reality and “truth” are being fragmented by modern political and social efforts and promulgated through the internet and social media. Science is absolutely dependent upon uniformity because without it we could not infer from past events what we can expect under like circumstances in the future. Physical science absolutely req [...]

You’re Not a Human Being Until You Can Speak

You’re Not a Human Being Until You Can Speak

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant When does a person become a human being? I’ll get back to this question in a moment. As I was researching material for this article I came across an article about the co-creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon (1955-2015). “Back in 2012, Sam Simon — best known as one of the creators of The Simpsons — was told he had terminal colon cancer and o [...]

Getting "Caught Up" with the Rapture

Getting "Caught Up" with the Rapture

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary discusses the recent Facebook obsession about the “rapture” coming next month. All five of the rapture positions dismiss the New Testament’s emphasis on the inauguration of the New Covenant and the Jerusalem above (Gal. 4:21–31). The writer to the Hebrews destroys the myth of a renewed covenant with earthly Jerusalem base [...]

My Response to a Third Temple Rebuilder

My Response to a Third Temple Rebuilder

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant I received the following from a listener of my podcasts: “I started to listen to the podcasts of Mr. DeMar. Regarding whether the 3rd Temple will be rebuilt, he states there is nothing in the New Testament that mentions the temple will be rebuilt. That, I believe, is not true.” Let’s start with Daniel’s 70 weeks-of-years prophecy (490 yea [...]

Only One Atheist Walks Out of the Bar Alive

Only One Atheist Walks Out of the Bar Alive

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant A few years ago, some atheists ran an ad campaign with this banner: “Relax: hell does not exist, or heaven either, enjoy your life.” Who defines what gives someone joy and on what basis? The Declaration of Independence mentions “the pursuit of happiness.” One person’s happiness could be another person’s dread. How do we know? The Declarat [...]

Did the United States ‘Create’ Slavery?

Did the United States ‘Create’ Slavery?

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant “The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it.” So said Democratic Senator Tim Kaine on the Senate floor. Talk about rewriting history. The Romans and Greeks were deep into slavery. Long before them, the Israelites were kept in captivity by the Egyptians as slaves. They were under the authority of “taskmasters” who [...]

What Atheists Think About We Humans

What Atheists Think About We Humans

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.[1] [...]

Kirk, Cartman, and Wilson

Kirk, Cartman, and Wilson

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Gary discusses several news stories involving Charlie Kirk and Douglas Wilson. Those who deny that God judges collectives in the midst of time are arguing implicitly that God does not place nations and groups under His laws. It is an argument in favor of God’s law over the actions of individuals, but not over collectives. It is an a [...]

The Myth of the Sacred/Secular Divide

The Myth of the Sacred/Secular Divide

Please help us reach $10K in donations for a matching grant Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Premier of the former Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964, described a time in the Communist republic’s history when a wave of petty theft was sweeping through the government-owned plants. To curtail the stealing, guards were placed at factory entrances to watch the laborers as they entered and departed. At the L [...]

Returning to the Good Old Days

Returning to the Good Old Days

Gary debunks the idea of the “good old days,” and how people claim they want to return to them. Worldviews are seen as vehicles for cultural transformation. Many in the entertainment field believe, for example, that they are the nation’s conscience and the only guiding light for change. Francis Ford Coppola, best known for the critically acclaimed Godfather trilogy, believes that only [...]

Making Christianity Irrelevant This Side of Heaven

Making Christianity Irrelevant This Side of Heaven

“Just preach the gospel.” How many times have you heard pastors and critics of social and political action scold Christians concerned about the moral direction the church is taking for mixing the gospel with politics? The gospel is more than a life insurance program or a “Get Out of Hell Free” card. It is to transform everything we think about and act on. There is no neutrality or areas that are o [...]

The Great Debate

The Great Debate

Gary discusses the newest book project for American Vision: The Great Debate: Does God Exist? Because of the great success of modern scientific and technological achievement, Western civilization has tended to discount metaphysical questions. Instead, our mind-set is more toward the sense-oriented, empirical scientific method. You must recognize this default bias of modern man because you need to [...]

What Secularists Don’t Tell You About America’s Christian History

What Secularists Don’t Tell You About America’s Christian History

American Vision runs ads on Facebook for several products. The topic of America’s Christian history and heritage gets the most vitriolic response. It’s obvious that most of those who comment have a skewed version of history. This is not surprising given how our nation’s public schools (1) don’t mention America’s Christian background except the statement by Thomas Jefferson about the separation of [...]

So What Happens Next?

So What Happens Next?

Gary answers a question that we get often: “If so much of the New Testament is fulfilled, now what do we do?” In the book The 1980’s: Countdown to Armageddon, prophecy writer Hal Lindsey wrote, “The decade of the 1980’s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it.” How long and wrong can prophetic speculation go on before a cultural collapse takes place? What a person b [...]

Shellfish, Pig Skins, and Mixed Fabrics

Shellfish, Pig Skins, and Mixed Fabrics

Matthew 7:1 (“Judge not…”) is the favorite NT verse of atheists and always taken out of its immediate context (see vv. 2-5 and John 7:24). Cherry picked passages from the Old Testament come in a close second. Chip Gaines judged Christians for judging their show’s normalization of homosexuality and homosexual marriage and adoption. Their show’s episode should have gotten as much [...]

Back to the Gay Frontier

Back to the Gay Frontier

Gary discusses the recent controversy with Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show and homosexuality. Paul teaches elsewhere that all men—even pagans who do not love God and do not have the advantage of the written oracles of God (cf. Rom. 3:1-2)—nevertheless know the just requirements of God’s law. They know what God, the Creator, requires of them. They know it from the created order (1:18-2 [...]

Pulpits, Politics, and the IRS

Pulpits, Politics, and the IRS

Gary revisits a topic he discussed a few months back about churches and pastors making political endorsements. In the Georgia General Assembly Unannotated code the following instructions are given to the state’s archivist: “Encourage the study of historical documents including but not limited to those which reflect our National Motto, the Declaration of Independence, the Ten Commandments, the Cons [...]

The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

The Scopes Trial 100 Years Later

The year 2025 is the 100th anniversary of the Scope’s Trial. Mark A. Noll’s review [1] of Garry Wills’ Under God: Religion and American Politics forced me to look at Wills’ perspective on the infamous Scopes Trial. Most of what America knows of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial held in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, comes from the fictionalized stage play and screen version titled Inherit the Wind.[2] Willia [...]

Using the Law Lawfully

Using the Law Lawfully

Gary responds to a video clip of Bart Ehrman about various laws from Leviticus. All of life is ethical, and all of the Bible is permeated with a concern for ethics. Unlike the organization of an encyclopedia, our Bible was not written in such a way that it devotes separate sections exclusively to various topics of interest. Hence the Bible does not contain one separate, self-contained book or chap [...]

Governments Can’t be Good Samaritans

Governments Can’t be Good Samaritans

Raphael Warnock is a United States Senator from the state of Georgia. He was also a minister at an Atlanta church. He had this to say about the BBB: “We’re taking away health care from kids and then burdening them with the debt. We are engaged in Robin Hood in reverse, this body of stealing from the poor in order to give to the rich. This massive transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top. [...]