Are the Bible and the Spiderman Series Comparable?

A recent comment on my blog No Proof God Exists, Really?[1] (His comments are found in a version of this blog flipped to Flipboard[2] at this cite.)[3] says,

“Just because stories in a book exist does not make them true. By that logic, Spider-man exists just as much as god does.”

My answer to him is,  Your comparison is absurd. Spider man's author:
·       never claimed to be inspired,
·       never confirmed inspiration through fulfilled prophecy and
·       never corroborated his work through multiple witnesses.

To elaborate upon that I add, in every case these are true of the Bible.
·       Throughout the Old Testament the writers used statements such as “Thus saith the Lord.” They spoke not their own words but what God told them to speak.
·       The Bible is filled with prophecies, pronouncements declared before the fact. More than three quarters of those prophecies have been fulfilled, not partially, but exactly. The remaining prophecies have a future fulfillment to our day.
·       The Bible is not one book but a series of sixty-six books, written over a period of thousands of years by approximately forty different writers. Each book is individual and bears the character of the writer, yet presents a cohesive unity with the others.

The Bible is like no other book.
2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV)
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:





[1] https://niume.com/post/234388
[2] https://flipboard.com/
[3] https://flipboard.com/@marvinmcken7kv5/baptist-theology-in-american-culture-uoce9638y

Madeline Albright a Muslim?




Did you see the AP article entitled, The Latest: Albright says she’ll register as a Muslim[1]? She claims, "I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian & found out later my family was Jewish. I stand ready to register as Muslim in #solidarity."

Albright’s position of faith is wrong on so many levels!
I notice she never once says she is a Christian. To be raised a Catholic is something that has been done to you. To become an Episcopalian is not much different from moving from New York to New Jersey; nothing’s changed but your address. To find out later that your family is Jewish should be of no consequence, so was Jesus’. So was all of the first Christians. Christians, whether their families are Jewish or Gentile, are instructed to leave those cultures behind for the Biblical culture of a New Testament Christian church.

Now she stands ready to register as Muslim. This statement is truly telling. Was she merely registered Catholic or registered Episcopalian? At some point then did she register as Jewish?

Mrs. Albright needs to take the time to check into the Muslim system of belief. According to their religion when one converts and becomes a Muslim, to leave that faith is punishable by death. I don’t imagine that’s what she plans to “register” in to.

Ok, here is the real concern. Albright, like so many people today, assume that being religious, or having been baptized into a certain denomination, or attending a particular church or even believing a particular creed is what makes one a Christian. It does not.

There was once a man who came to Jesus with much the same misunderstanding.
John 3:1-18 (KJV)
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Nicodemus could not wrap his head around Jesus’ teaching of the new birth. How could he? Only those who have been born can know what it means to be born. Only those who have been born again can know what it means to be born again.

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[1] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/26/latest-albright-says-shell-register-as-muslim.html

Is The Evidence of Christ’s Resurrection Really Proof?

Increasingly, opponents of the Christian faith deny, mock and disregard any evidences that the Bible is accurate and that Jesus Christ rose again from the grave. In a comment made to one of my recent posts,[1] where I asserted that there is more proof that Jesus rose from that grave than that Alexander the Great ever lived, someone said, “The author’s idea of proof must be different than mine.” The “idea of proof” ought to be universal. In fact, there are legally allowable evidences of proof that are (as far as I am aware) universally accepted in courts of law.

In the 1800’s Simon Greenleaf, a principle founder of the Harvard School of Law put the resurrection of Christ to the test using the rules of evidence administered by the Courts of Justice. More recently Robert Edwards[2] applied modern rules of evidence to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In his work Is Simon Greenleaf Still Relevant?[3] Edwards does a fantastic job of reviewing and explaining the work of Greenleaf and applying those modern rules.

I suggest that, before a person can rightfully reject the proofs of Christ resurrection, he or she must honestly consider those proofs. Besides Edwards’ work cited above, I also recommend the sincere soul should read Josh McDowell’s work, Evidence That Demands a Verdict.[4]


No Proof God Exists, Really?

It is a significant fact that the Bible begins with a pronouncement, In the beginning, God.
God did not explain Himself or prove Himself, He declared Himself. He is a fact. 
It is innate in mankind to believe in God. Various cultures have developed differing concepts about God, but the belief in God is universal, ubiquitous. 
True, there are, and likely always have been atheists or at least agnostics, but when one begins to look into the mindset of these, we learn that they too have a god. They are no different than anyone else, they merely attempt to define their gods in such a way that they appear to be no gods.

I cannot prove the existence of God. I do not believe I have to because I am convinced that everyone, absolutely everyone, even those who most loudly protest, believe in God.
The question that I think matters most is, which god? Of the multitude of religious systems and “non systems,” which is the true representation of God? I present a case for the God of the Bible.

There is the Bible itself
Though some argue that we can’t use the Bible to prove the Bible because it is one book proving itself, that is far from accurate. The Bible is, in fact, a series of books, independent of each other yet miraculously bound to one another. 
The Bible is composed of not one but sixty-six individual works. There are more than forty different writers working over a period of four thousand years. Each book expresses, to a high degree, the personalities, backgrounds and educational make-up of each writer. Yet they are remarkably unified. They serve as multiple witnesses testifying to the veracity and divine nature of the whole.
There is the character of the Bible
Nothing in the Bible has ever been proven to be false. It is not a book of science, but its science is accurate. It is not a book of history but its history is accurate. More than one quarter of the Bible was written prophetically, in other words, it predicts the future. More than three quarters of those prophecies have been fulfilled with absolute accuracy. There is no reason to believe that those prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled with not be fulfilled accurately in God’s time.
Most importantly is the resurrection of Jesus Christ
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is irrefutable. There is simply too much evidence that Christ lived, died and rose again to deny these events with any sort of credibility.
There is more contemporary evidence of the gospel of Jesus Christ than there is that Alexander the Great ever lived, yet no one questions the historical veracity of Alexander the Great. Why is that? I suggest that it is because there is no great consequence to believing in Alexander the Great. Whether he did or did not live makes no difference now or in the future. Not so with Jesus Christ.
If Jesus Christ lived, died and rose again as the Word of God says he did, then He is God. Jesus made astounding and substantive claims concerning Himself and eternity.
• He said that there is a literal hell and people go there
• He said that God the Father is real and that no man comes to God except by Him
• He said that God’s expectation is perfection
• He also said that whosoever believes in Him could have everlasting life.
Every man and woman has a right to believe according to the dictates of their own conscience. I only plead that, before anyone settles what they believe, they do so with eyes wide open. 
Jesus said that to deny Him was to be condemned to eternal torments, “...where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.” Jesus said that there is no other access to heaven except through faith in Him. I beg that you make a full and unbiased study of these claims (being led by one competent to help you) before you decide not to believe.

Marvin McKenzie
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