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Responding To Nick Peters’ Objections Against Naturism (Part 4) – 1 Timothy 2:9

This is part 4 in a series of articles in which I respond to Nick Peters of Deeper Waters Apologetics. Nick Peters is writing a series of articles critiquing Aaron Frost’s book “Christian Body: Modesty and The Bible”. Although I am not the author of the book, some of the arguments Frost uses to defend naturism biblically and sociologically are some of the same arguments I would use. His articles can be seen as criticisms of naturism in general. If you would like to reads part 1, 2, and 3 of my r...

Responding To Nick Peters’ Objections To Naturism (Part 3) – Romans 14

This is part 3 in a series of articles in which I respond to Nick Peters of Deeper Waters Apologetics. Nick Peters is writing a series of articles critiquing Aaron Frost’s book “Christian Body: Modesty and The Bible”. Although I am not the author of the book, some of the arguments Frost uses to defend naturism biblically and sociologically are some of the same arguments I would use. His articles can be seen as criticisms of naturism in general. If you would like to reads part 1 and 2 of my respo...

Responding To Nick Peters’ Objections To Naturism (Part 2) – Leviticus 18 and 20

This article is part of a series of articles in which I address objections to the philosophy and practice of naturism. The objections I am dealing with come from Nick Peters of Deeper Waters Apologetics. The series of articles Nick Peters wrote are a multi part book review of Aaron Frost’s “Christian Body: Modesty and The Bible”. Peters was introduced to the book through me as part of my recommended reading after the brouhaha that erupted after I published my article “The Case For Christian Natu...

Responding To Nick Peters’ Objections To Naturism (Part 1) – Priestly Underwear

Recently, I wrote a very lengthy article titled “The Case For Christian Naturism”. In it, I make a positive biblical case for the practice of chaste social nudity. God’s view of the human body is a positive one. So long as people aren’t being sexual with each other, there should be no disapproval about a group of friends deciding to go skinny dipping together, or even sitting nude around a table playing a game of Monopoly. I argued that the idea that clothing is necessary for sexual morality is ...

The Case For Christian Naturism

Abstract: Topics of sex and nudity have often been treated as taboo subjects within the church. The very idea of nakedness is often inextricably linked in peoples’ minds with sex and pornography. However, in this paper, I will first make a case that God sees the naked human body as a very good thing as a result of us being made in his image. And while naturism (a philosophical form of nudism) was never practiced in scripture as it is in the modern day (except at the beginning), what The Bible te...

The Gospel Eyewitness Argument For Jesus’ Resurrection

The resurrection of Jesus is the most crucial event for Christianity. According to The Bible, it was every bit as essential to pay for our sins as his crucifixion was (see Romans 4:25). Moreover, Jesus claimed to be God in places like Mark 14:60-64, John 8:58, and John 10:30, so if Jesus weren’t God, then his claim to be God would be blasphemous as Caiaphas took it to be at Jesus’ trial. [1]To see an exposition of the Markan passage, check out my video presentation “The High Christology Of Mark’...

5 Reasons Why I Prefer Maximal Data Over Minimal Facts

Recently, a skeptic has been blowing up my phone with Jetpack notifications by leaving a seemingly unending series of comments on an old 2018 article series titled “The Evidence For The Resurrection Of Jesus”. In this article series, I defend the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus using a Minimal Facts Approach. A Minimal Facts approach only uses historical facts that meet two criteria; (1) They have many different criteria of authenticity-based arguments in their favor, and (2) They are a...

A Treatise On The Christian’s Eternal Home

In this article, I want to talk about where our hope as Christians truly lies. If you ask the average churchgoer, they will likely say “The Christian hope is to go to Heaven when we die.” However, that is somewhat problematic. While that is something that will happen to followers of Christ when we die, that is not our hope. The disembodied afterlife that believers immediately go to moments after their deaths is not our ultimate hope. If you think it is, check yourself, because that’s what the gn...

Why You Should Believe In The Trinity: Responding To The WatchTower (Part 3)

In the previous 2 articles, we’ve been responding to an evangelistic tract/booklet from The Watchtower Society called “Should You Believe In The Trinity?” In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the claim that The Trinity is logically incoherent at best and confusing at worst. I took the time to show that there are models which make sense out of the doctrine that there is 1 God who eternally consists of 3 persons. The specific model I defended was a Social Trinitarian model I learned about in Dr....

Why You Should Believe In The Trinity: Responding To The WatchTower (Part 2)

This is part 2 in a series of articles responding to a piece of anti-Trinitarian literature from The Watchtower Society’s website, www.JW.org. It’s a free digital booklet titled “Should You Believe In The Trinity?”, and of course their answer is “No” and that’s the case they’re trying to make for it in the booklet. The booklet was sent to me by a Jehovah’s Witness (JW) with whom I’d had a conversation in my Dad’s living room, and seeing as I was going to make extensive notes about what I was rea...