X 50 Big Ideas Every Christian Should Understand

50 The Great Commission: And How It Doesn’t Apply to You

Some Christians are told that they must evangelize. But Jesus gave the Great Commission to his disciples. He also gave them supernatural powers—the ability to heal and forgive sins. Jesus clearly wasn’t addressing today’s Christians. Asking ordinary people to do the work is what you’d do if there were no God to do a proper…

49 Religions Continue to Diverge: What Does that Tell Us?

Imagine that humanity’s thousands of religions were converging on a single supernatural worldview. What would that look like? It would look very different from the cacophony of religions today. Christianity alone has 45,000 denominations, increasing by two every day, and we find the same fertility in other religions. That variety is best explained if religions…

48 Religion Reflects Culture: You’d Be Muslim if You Were Born in Pakistan

Ten countries are 99% Muslim. When a baby is born in one of those countries, what’s the likelihood that it will grow up to be Muslim? Similarly; American Christians almost surely didn’t choose their beliefs after careful study but adopted them from their culture. Religion is a cultural trait, not an interpretation of the truth.

47 Christianity’s Big Promises: An Unbroken Record of Failure

Not one scientific truth was uncovered first in the Bible. Not one disease was eliminated or limb restored thanks to Christianity. Not one Bible prophecy has been fulfilled (as judged by non-Christians). The Bible has supernatural claims, but that just puts it in the same bin as all the other religions.

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