Defense of the Faith – Page 5 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Unproductive, Unpopulated, and Dark – Genesis 1:2

It is amazing to sit outside and experience all the sights and sounds of God’s creation, to notice the vast variety of vegetation and creatures, the flora and fauna as it is called. Our earth is

In the Beginning God – Genesis 1:1

Presuppositional apologetics is a mouthful, to be sure. “Presuppositional” means our most basic beliefs that we accept without defending them, or perhaps without being able to defend them.

In the Beginning – Genesis

In the near east during the time of Israel’s exodus from Egypt, there were numerous creation stories, with each nation’s national gods as the main characters. Babylon’s national god,

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 13 on Ability to Keep the Law

Jared, to me, May As Jews we aim to keep to Hashem’s words and never worship a God we have not known – all we know and all we will ever know is Hashem. Christians keep to Paul’s words

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 12 on Zechariah 12:10

Randall Johnson May 11, to Jared, May Here is my response to your commentary on Zechariah 12:10 and below is a video I would appreciate your perspective on. John’s first reference to “Not

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 11 on Young Abraham in Midrash

Randall Johnson May 9, to Jared, May The Jews have maintained monotheism after way too much dalliance with polytheism and much discipline from God for their failures. In fact, Yahweh says He chose Israel

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 10 on Jewish Expertise, Torah, and Human Sacrifice

Randall Johnson May 9, to May, Jared Yours was a “quick” reply, relatively speaking (relative to the constitution of the United States or War and Peace). I’ll try to respond as I did

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 9 on Intermediaries

Randall Johnson May 8, to Jared, May Please let me assure you that I find ultimate truth and value in the words of our Creator. The Tanakh is every bit as much my Scriptures as the New Testament is. But

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 8 on Zechariah 9:9 and on the Virgin Birth

Jared, to me, May Hi Pastor Randall, Wondering what your view is on this video regarding the events of Jesus entrance into Jerusalem. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFHfWaZ-hM . Now, when did Hezekiah

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 7 on Psalm 110

Jared April 27, to me, May Hi Randall, I’ve been away most of the weekend and have only got to your email now. I will happily interact with you on psalm 110. I was actually wondering when you would

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 6 on Whether Worshiping Jesus Means Worshiping a False God

Jared April 22, to me, May Hi Randall, I’m going to let May respond to all of your points but reading through your response I did have a couple of thoughts: You state with gusto: “Jesus was

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 5 on Responding to May’s Email

Randall Johnson April 21, to May, Jared Okay, guys, here is my reply to May’s email at last. I decided, May, that I couldn’t deal with all your arguments in the email itself, so I put them in a

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 4 on Simply Quoting Torah (Scripture)

Jared April 13, to me, May There’s the thing – I actually didn’t put forward any arguments. I actually just quoted you Torah. We still keep and honour Torah – we (Jews and Noahide)

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 3 on My Interest in Debating a Rabbi

Jared April 12, to me, May Hi Randall, Hope you’re having a good weekend. Thanks for your lengthy response, I’m in the midst of constructing a reply. In the meanwhile however I wanted to ask

An Account of My 2015 Email Debate with Two Jewish Apologists, Jared and May – Part 2 on the Interpretation of Isaiah 53

Jared April 11, to me, May That’s a fair point, I just feel it’s misleading for young Christians trying to understand these ancient texts. You mentioned Isaiah 53 – the key to understanding

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