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.
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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. Read more [...]
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 
As an armchair Physicist (at best), I’m drawn to the concreteness and certainty of the science of Physics.
It’s a tribute to intellectual honesty and the effectiveness of the Scientific Method.
How so?
How do I know this?
Have I done the math?
Hardly.
Have I recreated and witnessed the original, corroborating experiments of intellectual giants like Newton, Tesla and Einstein?
Nope!
Then how do I know Physics gets it right?
Applied Physics.
I work with it every day. Impressed? 
Apologetics presupposes reason.
Thinking.
But what kind of thinking?
Thinking based on reason, logic and evidence.
Is there any other kind?
Oh yes!
It’s very popular!
Thinking based on personal preference twisted to fit presupposed conclusions not derived by due process.
Due process to what?
The Laws of Logic.
The Fundamental Laws of Thinking ignored by the will of men twisting reality to fit the bigotry of personal preference in spite of reality.
You find this in every intellectual 
I envied my Christian friends in High School for their ability to believe in a loving, personal God. I often wished that I too could take that blind step of faith they cited as the key to their relationship with and understanding of God.
I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t throw reason out the window no matter how much I needed that relationship.
Better to believe in an unpleasant truth, than a pleasant lie.
Over the years my heart grew ever harder and impatient toward Christians for their 
There are two types of faith and doubt.
There is faith based on logic and the facts at hand. There is faith in spite of the logic and facts at hand.
There is doubt based on logic and the facts at hand. There is doubt in spite of the logic and facts at hand.
As an Apologist I am always preparing to give an answer to everyone who asks me to give a reason for the hope that I have.
Apologists evangelize from their hearts to the hearts of others by the use of reason.
The key to Apologetics 
I’ve been in a funk this year.
I’d lost my incentive to write and to discuss the reasons for the hope that I have.
The very hope itself seemed to be under siege.
It was under siege!
By the tyranny of illogic.
You see, the worldview of non-Christians is easy for me to understand, because that’s where I came from. I’m generally privy to the errors in their logic because those errors were once mine. It’s relatively easy for me to spot and avoid the inevitable cracks of illogic in 
"The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it."
But what does the Bible say?
And how do I know that what I think it says is correct?
Because however I interpret what the Bible says there is someone else who interprets it to say something different.
And they too make the same statement: "The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it."
And since truth is exclusive by definition, we can’t both be right.
Maybe their interpretation is right and mine wrong!
And we could both be 
The statement “No one is argued into the Kingdom of God by Apologetics” is incorrect.
The statement misrepresents Apologetics
It redefines Apologetics as arguing.
It redefines the intent of 1 Peter 3:15 as argumentative and contentious.
It redefines as argumentative the word "logos"* (reason) from the original Greek text.
It therefore redefines reason and thinking as arguing.
It associates the negative connotations of arguing with Apologetics, reasoning and thinking.
Let's be