Christians talk a lot about the importance of “belief.” After all, perhaps the most famous verse in the New Testament, John 3:16, says, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” (I Read more…
Before I became a Christian at age 20, many of my Christian friends tried to convert me by quoting John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” They would then Read more…
A story about C.S. Lewis says that he once walked into a gathering of Christian leaders who were discussing what makes Christianity unique among the world’s religions. Some said the resurrection, but others pointed out that many religions have stories about men or gods dying and coming back to life.[1] Read more…
In about 1535, as Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation was gaining traction in Europe, John Calvin published The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in which he argued that God has predestined every person on earth to either eternal salvation or eternal damnation, and that no one can change their eternal fate. Read more…