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Apologetics, Articles, Featured, The Problem of Evil

Teaching That Sin is Sin: From One Bad Guy to Another

Without fail, when our family opens up The Action Bible (or any book, for that matter) one question will be asked. Every time. Multiple times.

“Which one is the bad guy?”

And each time, without fail, we explain that things aren’t so black and white. That some of these bad guys will become good guys, and some of these good guys were once bad guys, and ultimately, every guy in here is a bad guy in one way or another, except Jesus. This has gotten us thinking about how we categorize bad guys and how that translates to our apologetic interactions.

March 25, 2015 by Danielle Camorlinga

Apologetics, Biblical Difficulties

“Good Deeds” and “Nice” Aren’t Getting You to Heaven

You’ve probably heard this before:

“People who are basically good and do their best will go to Heaven. I’m nice and I do more good things than bad things, so I’m going, too.”

Now, before we dive into the reasons that this thinking is flawed and dangerous, let’s first see what the Bible says about who gets to go to Heaven. Christianity’s teaching on this matter is unique, because other religions would largely agree that good works are the basis for a pleasant afterlife (We will address the false belief that “all religions are basically alike” in a future post).

October 12, 2013 by The Admins

Apologetics, Articles

Weekly Roundup – 8/9

We hope you will find this list of collected bits from around the web interesting and useful today. This week we focus on the problem of evil(why does a good God allow pain and suffering?) and end with a wonderful article about why it matters to think about these things. Let us know what you think, or if you’ve seen something else that we missed! Be sure to also check out the Picture Book Apologetics project on Kickstarter. We greatly appreciate your support! Continue Reading

August 9, 2013 by The Admins