If Adam was just a myth, then sin is just a myth. And if sin is a myth, then the cross is meaningless. This is why the question of the historical Adam is not a side issue. It goes to the very core of Christianity. Let’s walk through why Adam’s historicity matters across four areas: history, the Bible, theology, and philosophy.
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Tribulation as Wrath is officially available!
This book is short, focused, and provocative. It doesn’t waste your time with endless speculation or rehashed debates. Instead, it goes straight to the core: Revelation’s treatment of divine wrath.
Too many Christians today have adopted views of the end times that downplay God’s judgment. They treat the seal and trumpet judgments as warnings or natural disasters. Basically, anything but the wrath of God. But Revelation 6 seems to clearly indicate that it is the wrath of the Lamb at play.
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Many Christians agree that the church won’t endure the wrath of God, but what if we’ve misunderstood when that wrath begins?
For decades, the debate over the rapture has centered on timing—pretrib, midtrib, posttrib, and, more recently, prewrath. But beneath these views lies a deeper, often-ignored question:
What actually constitutes God’s wrath in Revelation?
Summary
Salvation by Allegiance Alone by Matthew W. Bates can be summed up with one of his early questions: “When the Apostle Paul says, ‘for it is by grace you have been saved through faith’ (Eph. 2:8), what if Paul’s idea of ‘faith’ (pistis) differs from typical contemporary understandings?” (p. 3). The book revolves around that single question, arguing that the Greek word pistis (typically translated as “faith”) ought instead to be rendered “allegiance” or “fidelity.” The title makes this clear. In fact, that sort of blunt clarity is one of the book’s strengths. Whether you agree with him or not, you can’t miss what he’s trying to say.
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Reviewed by L. J. Anderson, PhD Student, Liberty Theological Seminary
Summary
Paul Scott’s Identity and Coherence in Christology provides a philosophically rigorous and analytically careful examination of how Christ can be both fully divine and fully human without contradiction. Drawing from scholastic and analytic sources, Scott surveys several traditional and modern models, including reduplication, specification, and mereology (the philosophical study of parts and wholes, applied here to Christ’s natures), before ultimately advocating a semantic solution grounded in predicate modification.
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Why This Foundational Doctrine Still Matters
Is the Bible truly without error? Or have modern thinkers simply lowered the bar for what they’re willing to believe?
I’m pleased to announce that my next short book, The Inerrancy of Scripture, is now available for preorder, with the official release set for July 1st. This is an expanded version of a chapter originally published in Contending for the Truth, now given the space and focus it deserves.
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Why Universal Morals Still Matter in Apologetics
I’m excited to announce the release of a new short book from Lamad Press: The Moral Argument. This work is an expanded, standalone version of a chapter originally published in Contending for the Truth, but it quickly became clear that the argument needed to breathe on its own. Why? Because most Christians (and most search engines) aren’t looking for apologetics content buried in a book titled Contending for the Truth. They’re looking for answers to specific questions. And this book addresses one of the most common and neglected ones: Can morality point to God?
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Most Christians know what they believe, but far fewer know why they believe it. And fewer still have taken the time to compare the popular teachings in Christian culture with what the Bible actually says. That tension—between tradition and Scripture, assumption and truth—is where Contending for the Truth lives.
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