ThoughtLetters filed under General & Miscellaneous

Isn’t Christianity Divisive? Isn’t Jesus Dead?

Volume 30 • No. 1 • January-February, 2020 Download PDF

Posted in 2020, By Topic, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Why Not Play Down the Concept of Sin?

Volume 29 • No. 6 • November-December, 2019 Download PDF

Posted in 2019, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Does Life Have Any Ultimate Purpose?

Volume 29 • No. 4 • July-August, 2019 Download PDF

Posted in 2019, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

What Happens to Those Who’ve Never Heard the Gospel?

Volume 28 • No. 1 • January-February, 2018 Download PDF

Posted in 2018, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Is Christianity Just a Crutch? | Could Jesus Have Sinned?

Volume 27 • No. 2 • March—April, 2017 Download PDF

Posted in 2017, General & Miscellaneous, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Is Christianity Just a Mosaic of Recycled Ancient Myths?

Volume 27 • No. 1 • January—February, 2017 Download PDF

Posted in 2017, By Topic, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Changes for Good As Evidence for Faith

Volume 26 • No. 5 • September-October 2016 Download PDF

Posted in 2016, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

If Christianity Is True, Why Do Christians Disagree with Each Other?

Volume 26 • No. 1 • January-February 2016 Download PDF

Posted in 2016, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Gender-Based Evidence for the Resurrection

Volume 23 • No. 2 • March-April 2013 Download PDF

Posted in 2013, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Will There Be a McDonald’s in Heaven?

Volume 22 • No. 3 • May-June 2012 Download PDF

Posted in 2012, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Why So Wide the Gate?

AREOPAGUS PROCLAMATION Volume 20 • No. 5 • September-October 2010 Download PDF

Posted in 2010, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

What Happens to Those Who’ve Never Heard About Jesus?

AREOPAGUS PROCLAMATION Volume 19 • No. 5 • Sep-Oct 2009 Download PDF

Posted in 2009, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Would the Discovery of Extraterrestrials Invalidate Christianity?

Volume 19 • No. 3 • May-June 2009 Download PDF  

Posted in 2009, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Can Christians Competently Answer the Really Tough Questions?

by Daryl E. Witmer If the title of this article itself qualifies as a really tough question, then the answer is a definite “yes,” because we’re answering it here in […]

Posted in 2007, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Apologetics Potpourri

by Daryl E. Witmer Every human has an intellect that is intended to be fully, constructively used. To disengage the mind can actually prove disastrous. Adolf Hitler once said “What […]

Posted in 2006, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Sinful by Nature?

by Daryl E. Witmer Is humanity intrinsically good, or is humanity by nature in deficit to a holy God as the result of a great moral Fall in early human […]

Posted in 2006, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

How Many Donkeys? How Many Angels?

by Daryl E. Witmer Critics of the Bible often allege that Scripture contains internal contradictions. Over the years we have responded to many of those allegations in this paper. This […]

Posted in 2006, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Five Favorite Apologetic Resources

by Daryl E. Witmer In the course of my work as a Christian apologist I am asked many questions about the Christian faith. For answers, I often refer folks, or […]

Posted in 2005, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Aren’t Miracles Illogical?

by Daryl E. Witmer From one end to the other, the Bible refers to miracles. There’s the story of Moses parting the Red Sea in Exodus. There’s Elijah calling down […]

Posted in 2005, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Time for A Verdict

by Daryl E. Witmer The following exchange is typical of the pattern and content of an actual conversation of this nature between a Christian and a skeptic, based on personal […]

Posted in 2005, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Apologetic Resources for Kids

by Daryl E. Witmer Christian apologetics isn’t just for theologians, educators, or adults. What follows here is a compilation of apologetic resources for youth (toddler to teen), all of which […]

Posted in 2004, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Truthful Answers to Tricky Questions

by  Daryl E. Witmer Here’s our best effort at tackling some of the stickier, trickier questions that come our way from time to time. Try these on your friends as […]

Posted in 2003, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

What Is Sin?

by Daryl E. Witmer Historically, Christian orthodoxy has derived its definition of sin from the Bible. And the Bible has this to say about sin: Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was […]

Posted in 2002, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Why Would God Damn Anyone to Eternity in Hell?

He wouldn’t, He hasn’t, and He won’t -not by ideally preferred choice, that is. Yet in order to honor and preserve the moral, volitional nature of man, God does and […]

Posted in 2001, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Six Tough Questions Answered

by Richard B. Keyes Dick Keyes is director of L’Abri, a residential study center in Southborough MA – one branch of an inter-national ministry founded in Switzerland by the late […]

Posted in 2000, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Hypocrites in the Church!

On December 17, 1999, I received an e-mail from a man living in south London which said (in part), “I choose not to believe in the incredible hotchpotch of superstition […]

Posted in 2000, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

13 Q&As-to-Go, A Grab Bag of Reader- Questions and AIIA Starter-Responses

Each of the following questions were posed either by our readers (via mail or e-mail), or by those in attendance at one of a number of forums in which AIIA […]

Posted in 2000, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Who Would Have Killed Cain?

by Daryl E. Witmer, AIIA Executive Director In late October, 1998, we received an e-mail message from a good friend and supporter of AIIA. She’d just had a conversation with […]

Posted in 1999, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Can I Believe? Can I Belong?

by Daryl E. Witmer, AIIA Executive Director Years ago a man told me that although he didn’t share my faith in Jesus Christ, he admired it.” It’s always good to […]

Posted in 1999, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Crucial Answers from Great Minds: Walter Martin, Part 3 of a 3-part series

compiled by Daryl E. Witmer During this final quarter of 1998 the PROCLAMATION has been featuring excerpts from the teaching of three of the most highly revered definers and defenders […]

Posted in 1998, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Crucial Answers from Great Minds: C. S. Lewis, Part 2 of a 3-part series

compiled by Daryl E. Witmer During this final quarter of 1998 the PROCLAMATION is featuring excerpts from the teaching of three of the most highly revered definers and defenders of […]

Posted in 1998, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Crucial Answers from Great Minds: Francis A. Schaeffer, Part 1 of a 3-part series

compiled by Daryl E. Witmer During this final quarter of 1998 the PROCLAMATION is featuring excerpts from the teaching of three of the most highly revered definers and defenders of […]

Posted in 1998, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

AIIA’s Thoughtletter Index: 1991-1998

This month, instead of our regular feature, we are publishing a comprehensive index of every issue of the Proclamation printed since our inaugural edition in April of 1991. Original copies […]

Posted in 1998, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Internet-based Evidence for Christianity, Part 2 of a 2 Part Series

In the final analysis, Christianity cannot be proven. The truth about what Jesus taught, and who He was (and is) must be accepted by faith. But not blind faith.The preponderance […]

Posted in 1997, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Internet-based Evidence for Christianity, Part 1 of a 2 Part Series

Can Christianity be proven? No. The Bible says that “…without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that […]

Posted in 1997, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

The Wealth of Evidence for Christianity

This month I’m writing with a special word to those of you among our readers who, to date, remain skeptical about the unique claims of Jesus Christ. Some of you […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

More Convincing Evidence in Defense and Confirmation, Convincing Christian Evidence for Kids

Actual excerpts compiled by Daryl E. Witmer, AIIA Executive Director James R. Spencer once wrote that apologetics are only needed when dealing with hard cases. Then he said, “If they […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Concise Answers to Your Crucial Questions Part 3 of 3

Last June (1995) we asked our readers to submit examples of the kind of tough questions that they are typically asked about Christianity. We received a good sampling of questions […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Concise Answers to Your Crucial Questions Part 2 of 3

Last June (1995) we asked our readers to submit examples of the kind of tough questions that they are typically asked about Christianity. We received a good sampling of questions […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Concise Answers to Your Crucial Questions Part 1 of 3

Last June (1995) we asked our readers to submit an example or two of the kind of tough questions that they’re typically asked about Christianity. We received a good sampling […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

On Life’s Ultimate Purpose

The haunting lyrics from the famous 1966 film Alfie, with rather wistful desperation, seek for some viable sense of meaning in the oft times gray, grinding routine of life: “What’s […]

Posted in 1995, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

What Happens to Those Who’ve Never Heard of Christ?, Part II

In last month’s Proclamation we ran an excerpt from a widely publicized debate between a Christian and an atheist conducted at the Willow Creek Community Church in Willow Creek, Illinois, […]

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

What Happens to the Heathen Who’ve Never Heard the Gospel?

The following excerpt is transcribed from the audio version of a debate held before about 8000 persons at the Willow Creek Community Church (WCCC) in Willow Creek, Illinois, on June […]

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

Christianity on Trial

The hall is packed. A feeling of anticipation, even suspense, is in the air.  It would seem that the stakes are high.  A number of attendees, to date on record […]

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

An Open Letter to Ted Turner

Dear Ted, We have been sending you our monthly thoughtletter for just over one year now. I trust that it has, in fact, been coming before you, and that you […]

Posted in 1992, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters

On the Gamble of a Lifetime

Volume 1 • No. 5 • August, 1991 Download PDF

Posted in 1991, By Topic, By Year, General & Miscellaneous, ThoughtLetters