thoughts from someone dealing with doubt
Posted in Article, Resurrection, Science on Oct 8th, 2009
Ran across this interesting article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. It a nice review article that briefly list the many theories of how Jesus may have died. Some of the different theories of how Jesus died: Cardiac rupture, Heart failure, Hypovolaemic shock, Syncope, Acidosis, Asphyxia, Arrhythmia plus asphyxia, Pulmonary embolism, and [...]
Posted in Books, Resurrection on May 2nd, 2009
I’m finally done reading the Great Book. No, not the Bible. I’m talking about N. T. Wright’s book “The Resurrection of the Son of God”. Several people suggested that this was the book to read regarding the resurrection. So I ordered the book, and when the semi truck came to drop [...]
Posted in Books, Resurrection on Jan 8th, 2009
I just got finished reading another book by Gary Habermas. This book, “The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus” is co-authored by Gary Habermas and Michael Licona. The book is aimed at preparing believers in their interactions with skeptics. The book, along with the accompanying interactive CD, is essentially a guide/instructions in presenting the evidences [...]
Posted in Doubt, Evolution/Creationism/ID, Resurrection on Dec 5th, 2008
I have found that I am often distracted from my doubt research. Granted I have a busy household (7 kids 9 and under), but the distractions that are most harmful come from within. My research focus has been on the resurrection of Jesus and the historical reliability of the New Testament. However, I am often [...]
Posted in Doubt, Resurrection on Nov 16th, 2008
Can Jesus’ resurrection from the dead be proven? This depends on the definition of what constitutes proof. Proof of the resurrection will not be found in the more reliable “hard scientific” field. Scientist will not be able to set up laboratory experiments to determine if the resurrection did or did not occur. There are not [...]
Posted in Doubt, Evolution/Creationism/ID, Resurrection on Oct 31st, 2008
As you may have gathered from the name of this blog/website, I am struggling through some very severe doubt in my Christian faith. I thought it best to give you a quick background of myself and a brief glimpse of the evolution of my doubt.
I grew up in a very nurturing Christian home. I went [...]