Christian Truth-Claims and Other Religions

6/26/2007
by Richard Samples

How should a Christian view other religions in terms of truth? Are all religions utterly false in every respect? Can other religions have at least some truth to them?

Do All Religions Lead to God?

1/1/2002
by Kenneth Samples

During the days following the catastrophic terrorist events of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush called for a national day of prayer. He urged people of all faiths to pray for America. Interfaith religious services were televised from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and from Yankee Stadium in New York.

How Can I Get To Heaven?

Most people want to go to heaven, hope to go to heaven. But does anyone really know for sure how to get there?

Popular opinion suggests that most people automatically go to heaven because most people are basically good. But are they? And how good is good enough for heaven? A majority might agree that Adolf Hitler was not good enough.

Response to 2012 Prophecies

6/8/2009
by Dr. Hugh Ross

Multiple sources, both books and web sites, have stirred people’s fear that the world (or life as we know it) will end on December 21, 2012. This date is cited as the end of the Mayan calendar and is said to align with a number of potential causes, such as the solar maximum, Venus’s transit of the Sun, Planet X’s approach, and a possible asteroid or comet impact.

Seeing Past Sincerity

10/1/2002
by Joe Aguirre

The unexpected Saturday morning knock on the door sometimes engenders mild irritation, sometimes anxiety. What should I say to the well-mannered, well-groomed, youthful “elders” from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or callers from the Kingdom Hall, for that matter)? Competing calls of family responsibility - Saturday morning is always a bad time for a visitm - and Christian witness often lead to an unsettling angst for any layperson.

Testing Demonic Possession

6/9/2008
by Dr. James Patterson II

People who hold to a naturalistic worldview find the Christian concept of a Creator difficult enough. But when it comes to the dark world of demonic possession, supernaturalism can seem downright silly. Analysis of a recent patient (who lacked major clinical psychiatric illness, yet displayed bona fide symptoms consistent with demonic possession) provides a test for supernaturalism.

Thinking Biblically About the World’s Religions

7/1/2002
by Kenneth Samples

All over the globe, billions of people adhere to a variety of different belief systems. Ten major non-Christian world religions abound today: Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.