I'm still amazed that Christ suffered for us, for me, for everyone. I was one of those who jeered & spat at Him as He hung nailed there on my behalf. I'm sorry beyond words for that. Yet the grief of my actions are far outweighed by the grace of His.
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I'm still amazed that Christ suffered for us, for me, for everyone. I was one of those who jeered & spat at Him as He hung nailed there on my behalf. I'm sorry beyond words for that. Yet the grief of my actions are far outweighed by the grace of His.
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Let’s cut to the chase: Apologetics is about right thinking. Reason and logic. First and foremost. That is its core.
Whatever you once thought otherwise -fuhgeddaboudit.
Right thinking is not isolated to Apologetics, because it applies to everything, and is employed when seeking the truth in anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace.
General Revelation or Special Revelation.
Whether studying, scripture, physics, religion, biology, philosophy, history, theology, geology or anything else 
We don’t have to wait for an afterlife to begin living in eternity.
Eternal life begins the moment we make the decision to accept the gift of Salvation. We are then no longer of this world, and though our bodies are bound by finite time we are not.
We live in eternity now.
We need not wish or wonder wistfully for immortality because we have it.
Once we see the truth of this our lives are changed forever because our perspective shifts from a limited human lifespan to a future without end. 
Would it be significant if Jesus modified Old Testament Scripture by adding a word?
It would be blasphemous if he were merely a man, but highly significant if he was God as he claimed to be.
Would you agree?
Moreover, wouldn’t you think we ought to sit up and take notice?
In addition wouldn’t the significance be compounded further if the change were made in response to one of the most important questions you and I or a Pharisee could ask?
The stakes of missing the point would be even higher, 
Atheism is the opiate of the masses.
Enabling escape from the consequences of reality by denying reality.
Christianity is often accused of being an escape for the weak and feeble minded who can't face reality. For those who can't look at the facts as they are and the evidence smack dab in front of their faces.
But is that true?
There is a massive cumulative case to the contrary.
Instead those who accuse Christians of intellectual weak knees are themselves shaking in their boots.
Because 
“Why did God create people he foreknew would go to hell?”
“He didn’t. He created people with the free will to choose for themselves their eternal fate.”
“But no one in their right mind would choose hell!”
“I agree with you, but those who reject God would say that you and I are not in our right mind! They aren't convinced there is a hell and believe the choice between heaven and hell is a false alternative.”
“Okay then, since God is omniscient he knows in advance 
Starting a new Apologetics study is unnerving. I’m always uncomfortable and full of doubts.
The list of reasons for the doubt and discomfort is long.
And justified if I place my faith and confidence in myself and my abilities.
But I can’t concentrate on a list of reasons that dissuade me from moving forward.
Because it undermines my joy, certainty and confidence in God’s Plan.
Instead I strive to concentrate on the long list of reasons provided by God Himself. Those found in Special and 
As Apologists we evangelize from our hearts to the hearts of others by the use of evidence and reason.
The key to Apologetics is evidence & reason.
The purpose of Apologetics is to free the hearts of those of other worldviews from the bondage of faith in a lie, by the use of evidence & reason.
The purpose of Apologetics within the Christian worldview is to free hearts from the bondage of their doubt, by the use of evidence & reason.
The same process used to convince those on the other 
Why do Christians ignore the great and first commandment?
Why do you ignore the great and first commandment?
Don’t defend yourself: stop!
Instead, please just listen (it’s not what you think):
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38
Did you get that? What did Jesus say?
’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all 
Whose Messiah was Jesus?
Was He the Messiah?
How could we know?
By the evidence.
Several lines of evidence are revealed when this question is examined.
Prophecy is one of them.
The first eight seconds of "The Passion of the Christ" movie begins with this powerful abbreviation of Isaiah 53:
He was wounded for our transgressions,
crushed for our iniquities; by His wounds
we are healed.
I was unprepared for the personal impact this scripture written 700 years before the birth of Christ would