The First Church The ability to trace today’s many churches back to the first church through Apostolic succession is an argument used by several different churches to assert that their church is the “one true church.” The Roman Catholic Church makes this claim. The Greek Orthodox Church makes this claim. Some Protestant denominations make this…

Can the Bible be Trusted? Christian Bibles borrow heavily from the Hebrew Tanakh and are broken down into different books. As I discuss below, different traditions count different books and order them differently. Here is the order used in most mainline Protestant Bibles, as those are the most common variety in the United States. The…

If there was no Easter and Jesus had not risen from the grave, there would be no core to the “Good News” gospel message in the Bible. If the death of Christ were all we had, there would be nothing to celebrate. The celebration is because Jesus came out of the grave victorious over death. That is…