Q.43 No one has any idea who wrote the Gospels

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The Gospel according to...

The Gospel according to…

For the average Christian, the statement: “no one has any idea who wrote the Gospels” is nonsensical. In every Bible, printed at the top of each Gospel account, is the name of the author:

The Gospel according to Matthew
The Gospel according to Mark
The Gospel according to Luke
The Gospel according to John

Sometimes it’s listed in a simplified version with just the name:

Matthew
Mark
Luke
John

Before Bibles were printed, the name of the author was included with the handwritten documents, and the name of the authors were well established from the beginning of their widespread circulation.[1] So it is not true that “no one has any idea who wrote the Gospels.” What this doubter means is he doesn’t believe that the Gospels were written by the people traditionally accepted to be the authors. He rejects what the first Christians believed from the time of initial receipt of these texts even though this belief was later confirmed by the early church. The question of authorship does not even occur to most Christians who believe the entire Bible. Continue Reading

Q.23 Isn’t God so distant and different he’s unknowable to humans?

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Adam and Eve in the Garden with the LORD God

Adam and Eve in the Garden with the LORD God

On the one hand, this question—”Isn’t God so distant and different he’s unknowable to humans?”—is a reasonable question because, to many people, perhaps to most, God seems distant. On the other hand, it shows how far those same people, for whom God seems distant, have drifted from God’s heart and his original and ongoing intention, which is intimacy with each and every one of us.

When God promised a New Covenant to the House of Israel via the prophet Jeremiah which was meant to apply to all, he said the time is coming when everyone would know him: Continue Reading

Q.40 The Exodus – Does archaeology show it happened?

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The Split rock at Horeb - The Exodus

The Split rock at Horeb

After the resurrection, the Exodus and the miracles surrounding it are arguably the greatest miracles God performed. Indeed, before the incarnation of Jesus, God regularly identified himself as the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt (Ex 20.2, 29.46, Ps 81.10, Jer 11.4, etc.) So this is a very important question. But like other questions in this series, it was given as a statement too long for the title. So let’s start with the original statement, point  out the implied questions, and take it from there. The original statement:

If the Exodus really happened we’d see more signs of it in archaeology. We don’t, so it’s not believable.

So let’s make explicit the implicit challenges and assumptions.
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Q.9 Why Do Christians believe guns are good? Guns kill!

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Remington 30.06

With last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk (X tribute | Archives: post video) still fresh on everyone’s mind, this seemed like a good time to address this question: “Why do Christians believe guns are good? Guns kill!” As usual, there is a fallacious assumption here, so let’s start with that. The assumption is of course that it is guns that kill, without recognizing that the gun is just the instrument of the person who is controlling it.

Saying that guns kill is like a student coming home from school and telling his parents, “My pencil failed my tests today.” Would any parent accept that? Would you accept that? Of course not. Pencils do not take tests by themselves. An agent is in control of the pencil, and the pencil is merely a tool by which the intention of the agent is manifested.  Continue Reading

Q.67 Why won’t you go along with Covid vaccinations like everyone else?

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Covid-19 vaccine - lethal?

As with most of these questions, there is an incorrect underlying assumption. Here, it’s that everyone is going along with the Covid-19 vaccines – with the exception of Christians. That is most certainly not the case. Actually, there is a further assumption that we should be doing what everyone else is doing. I’ll come back to that one.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 in their Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) Situation Report – 51. The Covid vaccines were developed at “record speed” as ChatGPT puts it and were made available in December of 2020.[1] We now have the benefit of hindsight informed by the years of research and data collection on the effectiveness of, and issues with, the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines that have been collected in the intervening years. To answer the question—Why won’t you [Christians] go along with Covid vaccinations like everyone else?—I will supply both past and current concerns as well as the validation of those concerns that has been revealed by the research of multiple sources over the intervening years.

Why Refuse the Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines?

There were three primary concerns that Christians and others had concerning the mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines and a fourth concern that drove the already high suspicions even higher. Continue Reading

Q.38 God vs. the flying spaghetti monster. What’s the difference?

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Laughing at the Flying Spaghetti Monster

This questions is phrased with a very telling, tacit admission. “You can believe in your god. I can believe in a flying spaghetti monster. What’s the difference?” First of all, by the way the question is phrased, if I were a betting man, I’d be willing to wager two things:

1. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is not your God.
2. You don’t really believe the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists.

While I’m at it, let me make a third observation:

3. The followers of the cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) think it cute to call themselves “pastafarians”[1]. They don’t treat the cult as a serious religion, nor do they take the FSM as a real anything except a real tool of satire and mocking, which is what this farcical, nonexistent monstrosity was created to be. Supposed adherents and followers feign belief and pretend both it and their make believe religion are real, but, as you can see, their very language gives them away. So let’s take these observations one by one to demonstrate that this questioner is just play-acting at believing in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Q.37 Only morons would believe in an invisible magic sky-daddy like God.

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"The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Psalm 14.1 Like fools, like morons

“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalm 14.1

The first thing I notice about the person asking this question is the extreme disrespect on display in the question: “Only morons would believe in an invisible magic sky-daddy like God.” Like the ignorance of those who crucified the Lord and did not know what they were doing (Luke 23.34), this person does not realize that in his reference to God, he is insulting and blaspheming the person with the power to send him into everlasting condemnation. (Luke 12.5) Continue Reading

The Grand Canyon: Creation and Flood written in Stone

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The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon

I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon this summer. It was a vacation I was looking forward to, but not just to see the beautiful vistas like the one above. Knowing the canyon reveals truths difficult to see anywhere else, I was looking forward to seeing truth about the earth that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere. Well, the canyon didn’t disappoint. I had expected to see evidence of the global flood, and that is definitely there. What I didn’t expect to see is evidence of creation as God described in Genesis. That’s also there. As the heavens declare the glory of God (Ps 19.1), the Grand Canyon declares his creation and Noah’s flood, written in stone for those who are paying attention. Let me explain. 
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A Tribute to Dr Ken Funk

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Dr Kenneth Funk

The Midwest Creation Fellowship Memorial page for Dr. Kenneth Funk Begins:

“On May 28, 2025, our beloved co-laborer and brother in Christ passed into the presence of the Lord.”

It is followed by a brief memorial. Between that memorial and the obituary here, the two list his accomplishments as: Director of the (MCF) North venue, peptide chemist, respected scientist, Navy veteran, creation advocate, cherished family man, scientist and servant of Christ. This is all very true, and for this tribute, I want to add what is for me perhaps both his most understated but most defining personal trait that was apparent to me through the years that I knew him. That trait is visionary. Ken was a visionary who saw clearly two things: 1. Our creator God, and 2. Our human need for salvation. As a man of science who used science to solve a hard-to-address human need (he assisted with the development of Lupron, a treatment widely used for prostate cancer and hormone-related conditions), Ken was aware of the power of science to address difficult needs in ways that could be made understandable and discernible. As the drug whose creation he had contributed to treats the human body, it is clear Ken wanted the concrete, discernible truths of science applied to God’s creation to treat the disbelief in the human heart and mind.
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Q.59 Christians, the Law and Privately held beliefs

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Supreme Court Building

Supreme Court Building

In this response to the 100 questions, the full objection here is, “Christians keep trying to use the law to impose their privately held beliefs on other people.”

Apparently this questioner believes it is only Christians who use the law to impose their privately held beliefs on other people. If this questioner truly believes that, then it shows a striking level of naievité and lack of awareness of how often the law is used to impose privately held beliefs on other people. So let me break it to the questioner gently:

Most, if not all laws that are imposed, are imposed by one group of people trying to use the law to impose their privately held beliefs on other people.

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