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mid-week apologetics booster (3-7-2024)

Good morning friends, Quote of the week: God maintains a delicate balance between keeping His existence sufficiently evident so people will know He’s there and yet hiding His presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore Him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free. – J.P. Moreland Now, here are your weekly links:

The Case for Christ explained in 16 minutes – Lee Strobel, a former atheist turned Christian who wrote the book The Case for Christ, shares how he went from skeptic to believer. This 16-minute explanation explores the truth he uncovered about the resurrection, the gospel accounts, and the controversies he had to overcome to support the evidence for Christ and make a case for the foundational belief in Christianity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnJKQv5XkK0
Did the Universe Come From Nothing? John Lennox Explores – John Lennox (Oxford) explores the origins of the universe. | Arizona State University, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5P0eOdruQ
How the Origin of Life Points to the Existence of God – YouTube – This video, excerpted from J. Warner Wallace’s presentation of the evidence for God, summarizes the case for Gods existence from the origin of life. Has science answered the question of life’s origin? How do philosophically natural scientists tackle the “chicken and egg” problems related to the origin of life? What is the best explanation for the information found in the genetic code? For a robust review of the collective case for God’s existence from eight pieces of evidence “inside the room” of the natural universe, please refer to God’s Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNDa9DO36w
Short Video Clip of David Berlinski being interviewed by Mark Levin about the atheist creation myth: https://twitter.com/i/status/1763791324380385527
Luke – Why did Jesus begin his ministry at age 30? – Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange. This is a fascinating discussion thread. I think there are several interesting answers given here, and also, one from Jeremy Castro that seems bizarre to me.: https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/58351/why-did-jesus-begin-his-ministry-at-age-30
Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design – Part 1 | The Institute for Creation Research – article highlights: Evolutionary selectionism was developed to explain the design in organisms without the involvement of a Creator. Without a viable alternative, selectionism has become the default framework for interpreting biological observations. Biology needs an alternative theory that is rational, is evidence-based, and doesn’t rely on the mystical personification of nature as a selective agent. An engineering-based theory of biological design offers a new framework to investigate biological phenomena.: https://www.icr.org/article/14536/
Jeff Durbin’s story and how his wife’s bold prayers changed things: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10229188069918399&id=1595012236&mibextid=xfxF2i
Ganymede’s magnetic field supports young solar system – To planetary scientists, it has been a challenge explaining how an object of Ganymede’s size could still possess its own magnetic field after over 4 Ga.: https://creation.com/ganymede-magnetic-field
“Society Says” Relativism: https://www.str.org/w/-society-says-relativism
How These Parents Helped Their Son Reject Transgender Ideology: https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/03/how-these-parents-helped-their-son-reject-transgender-lies-and-affirm-his-real-identity/
Bill McKeever and the Gold Plates apologetic–condensed 5-minute version – YouTube: https://youtu.be/lIrMlAH_o9k?si=uDQ6ZgsNfGPNSlaC
New study: virgins have happiest marriages, more sex partners means more unhappiness | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2024/03/01/new-study-virgins-have-happiest-marriages-more-sex-partners-means-more-unhappiness-4/
Acts & Facts | The Institute for Creation Research – March/April 2024: https://www.icr.org/aaf/index/
The Ark and the Darkness – Fathom Events (movie in theatres March 20, 21) – There is a tale over 4,000 years old, preserved in ancient writings from every major culture around the world. Many thought it was only a myth, but recent discoveries confirm what the Bible has said all along. From the Director of Genesis: Paradise Lost, Sevenfold films and Genesis Apologetics present The Ark and the Darkness. Geology, paleontology, the fossil record, ancient history, volcanism, earth science-all of these scientific fields converge on one simple truth: Noah’s Flood actually happened. Join our team of scientists from Answers in Genesis and Liberty University as we reveal the truth about Noah’s Flood.: https://www.fathomevents.com/events/the-ark-and-the-darkness/
A Closer Look at the Genre of the Gospels: Ancient and Modern Historiography: What are the Gospels? – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/a-closer-look-at-the-genre-of-the-gospels-ancient-and-modern-historiography-what-are-the-gospels-4/
Can people in heaven look down and see us? | GotQuestions.org: https://www.gotquestions.org/heaven-look-down.html
Tennessee allows officials not to perform same-sex marriages | Politics News: https://www.christianpost.com/news/tennessee-allows-officials-not-to-perform-same-sex-marriages.html

See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. 2 Corinthians 7:11 Blessings to you all