tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200903282024-03-14T04:29:58.986-07:00The Always Be Ready Apologetics Ministry BlogABR is a Christian apologetics ministry dedicated to equipping Christians with well-researched information on issues that seek to undermine or challenge the Christian faith. On this blog you'll find commentary on issues related to the truthfulness of Christianity by Charlie H. Campbell, the Director of Always Be Ready. Visit our main website at www.AlwaysBeReady.com.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-7883084035319716942019-03-21T09:45:00.000-07:002019-03-21T10:36:45.386-07:00Jesus: Mankind's Only Savior
I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all of you, have a friend or family member who is actively involved in a religion other than Christianity. We live in a very religious world. Pew Research Center’s 2014 Religious Landscape Study concluded that atheists make up only 3.1% of the U.S. population; agnostics 4%. (Source)
Most people believe in some sort of god or "higher power." And of Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-64551520856551214732018-08-08T16:37:00.002-07:002018-12-05T22:13:57.708-08:00Are You Prepared to Answer Atheists and Skeptics' Top 50 Objections?
Friend, could you use help answering atheists, skeptics, and agnostics’ top 50 objections and questions about God and the Bible? Objections like:
“Why doesn’t God just appear to us in a public setting and prove He exists?”
“The New Testament authors stole details for Jesus’s life story from religions that were around long before Christianity!”
“The God of the Old Testament commanded Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-44981186063850113082014-02-06T21:14:00.000-08:002018-12-05T22:12:57.891-08:00How Critics of Christianity Often Distort the Story of Galileo
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Someone asked me a while back, "How do you justify the Catholic Church imprisoning and torturing Galileo for teaching that the Earth revolves around the Sun? That seems to me to be a prime example of people who take the Bible seriously standing in the way of scientific progress!"
Well, first off, I don’t try to justify what the Catholic Church did to Galileo (1564–Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-12000166196077956062011-09-02T11:07:00.000-07:002018-12-05T22:21:07.909-08:00Two Creation Accounts? Is There a Contradiction in the Genesis Account of Creation?
We receive lots of emails every week from people about cults, movements, teachers, religions, the Bible, but every fall as soon as colleges get started we see more than one question about the supposed contradiction in the early chapters of Genesis about creation. Sure enough two days ago, right on schedule, the question came again...
"I was reading this text book for my mythology class and it Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-46496179078977007082011-06-18T11:07:00.000-07:002019-02-16T11:45:57.825-08:00Did Moses Plagiarize from the Code of Hammurabi?
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According to Harold Camping of Family Radio Worldwide, and thousands of his followers, the Rapture of the church is going to occur on May 21, 2011, followed by God’s judgment on the world and then the Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-89144708585112997292011-04-19T14:10:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:47:43.440-07:00NEW DVD! The Case for the Resurrection.I'm excited to announce the completion and arrival of a new DVD: "The Case for the Resurrection." In this 58 minute DVD I build a case for Jesus' resurrection and responds to numerous theories, questions and objections that atheists and critics have raised regarding the empty tomb. It's available in our online store here for $11.95.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-22461070650778595312011-04-07T11:57:00.000-07:002011-05-27T20:48:27.562-07:00Rob Bell Spoof (A Response to Rob Bell's Video Promoting His New Book, Love Wins)Robbed Hell - C.A.S.T. Pearls Presents from Canon Wired on Vimeo.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-32914536239263872802011-03-29T15:37:00.000-07:002011-03-30T16:00:01.858-07:00Was Christianity Stolen from Mithraism?Someone emailed me recently asking for help responding to a challenge an atheist had sent him. Here was the challenge:
Atheist: "The New Testament is a carbon copy of the older and very large Mithra religion. The bible is a bastardized mixture of cherry picked stories from Judaism and Mithraism. Christianity is Mithraism wearing a new name. Try disproving both of those Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-47607568445360423962011-03-10T13:34:00.000-08:002018-12-06T12:16:50.062-08:00HELL UNDER FIRE: Rob Bell and His Heretical Views on Salvation, Heaven and Hell
Rob Bell, Author of the new book Love Wins.
The doctrine of Hell as revealed in the Bible has long been under fire by people who toss aside Jesus' clear warnings about it, underestimate their own evil, and scoff at the holiness and justice of God. The latest scoffer is Rob Bell, the popular teacher featured in the NOOMA videos and author of Velvet Elvis. In Rob Bell's newest book, Love Wins,Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-84045575949042061592010-11-30T23:37:00.000-08:002012-02-08T21:28:41.165-08:00Is There Archaeological Evidence for the Exodus? The Bible tells us that God delivered the Israelites from their slavery in Egypt and led them into the land to the north that He had promised to Abraham centuries earlier. Critics of the Bible have long voiced their skepticism regarding the Exodus account. One of the objections critics raise has to do with the massive Egyptian military presence Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-22203417486334027552010-09-16T15:43:00.001-07:002011-08-18T13:53:10.092-07:00Seventh-day Adventism DVD Now AvailableThe Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) was started by Ellen G. White in the United States in the nineteenth century and continues to this day. While holding to many Biblical teachings, the SDA Church has strayed from the Bible by insisting that:
– Christ's atonement for sins was incomplete
– Jesus Christ is Michael the Archangel
– Christians must be baptized and observe a Saturday sabbathCharlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-77079418516085794452010-08-20T19:27:00.000-07:002019-02-09T15:24:39.686-08:00The Fine Tuning of the Universe: Another Reason to Believe in God
The more scientists study the universe, the more they discover that conditions in the universe appear to have been extremely fine-tuned (designed) to permit life. Numerous conditions have been identified that have to have just the right values (in other words, they need to be “tuned” to just the right degree) for any kind of conceivable physical life to exist in the universe. If any ofCharlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-81015868854576855232010-07-23T01:32:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:56:22.242-07:00NEW DVD: The Case for a Pretribulational Rapture
What is the Rapture? Is it Biblical? Was it a late invention by the church? Is it true that it wasn't taught until the early 1800s? What about the verses that seem to point to a posttribulational Rapture? In a 75 minute presentation recorded before a live congregation in southern California, I answer these questions and others by building a strong Biblical case for a pretribulational Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-89907194354712132942010-06-21T10:31:00.000-07:002010-06-21T10:38:40.578-07:00Archaeologists Believe They Have Found the Old Testament City of AiClick here for a short preview of a coming documentary put out by the producers of The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-29290629331781144272010-04-13T15:34:00.001-07:002018-12-06T12:47:48.511-08:00Archaeological and Extrabiblical Evidence for John the BaptistArchaeology and extrabiblical historical sources have time and time again verified persons, places and events mentioned in the Bible. For example, take John the Baptist. Did you know that the Roman historian, Flavius Josephus, mentioned John in his Antiquities of the Jews? Did you know that the fortress where John was locked up and executed has been located and excavated by archaeologists? The Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-48796718067604162962010-03-10T20:23:00.000-08:002010-03-10T20:48:53.612-08:00Who Made God? Conversation with a SkepticA common question skeptics raise when I talk to them about evidence for the existence of God, has to do with the maker of God. The question usually goes something like this:“If the universe demands a creator, then why can’t we just say God must have a creator as well? In other words, Who made God?”I do find it interesting and a bit humorous, that it is usually atheists who bring up this question.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-80401666765655193012010-02-23T20:49:00.000-08:002010-02-23T20:54:43.094-08:00Enormous Shark Fossil Found in KansasMore evidence that the world was once under water surfaced today in the news. Fox News reports that paleontologists believe they've identified the remains of an 88.7-million-year-old enormous shark they suspect terrorized sea animals --thanks to a jaw with hundreds of teeth. The clincher? It lived in Kansas. Click here for the rest of the story.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-28551443505930552632010-01-31T20:46:00.000-08:002010-01-31T22:05:11.522-08:00Skeptic: I want the joy I see in ChristiansI talked to a skeptic today in Orange County, California. He said that he had actually been going to church recently because--although he rejects the Bible--he really wants "the joy, hope, and excitement" that he sees in the lives of Christians. He was upset though that he had been to church a few times and the feelings were not happening.He thought people got this joy and hope just by going to Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-29947902151963020032010-01-28T14:06:00.000-08:002019-02-25T09:34:06.859-08:00My Top 10 Apologetics Books for Young Adults
The father of a teenage daughter emailed me a while back. He said:
"Charlie...My oldest daughter is finishing her freshman year in high school. I want to prepare her for college. What 10-20 books do you recommend she read before she attends college so that she will be prepared to stand strong and defend her faith? I plan on her reading at least 5 books per summer and some more during the Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-22752996546064029902010-01-26T22:17:00.000-08:002010-03-10T20:21:46.660-08:00Two Jehovah's Witnesses at My DoorAfter a lengthy discussion with two Jehovah's Witnesses today, they went marching off and one said, "If you really think we're wrong, then you should be out there warning people about us." Exactly.Here are some of my warnings, and here, and here.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20090328.post-61455554599862700162010-01-19T14:11:00.000-08:002010-01-19T14:17:36.863-08:00Does God Hate Haiti?Does God hate Haitians? Was the earthquake a judgment of God against their sin? Why does God allow these kinds of tragedies? These are questions that people are asking. Albert Mohler, a Christian author and apologist that I greatly respect, has written a concise article on the earthquake in Haiti and where God fits into the equation. Click here to read.Charlie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12041203601212520202noreply@blogger.com