By Mike D’Virgilio
Holy Bible: Uninvented
Why The Bible Could Not Be Made Up, and The Evidence That Proves It
We’re all familiar with the phrase, “You just can’t make this stuff up!” but few of us would apply it to our Bibles, or even realize we can. The default position of our secular culture is the Bible is made up in whole or in part. Most Christians do not realize this position can be challenged by a simple question: Could it be?
The answer from the secularist is, of course it could! But as you’ll learn in Uninvented, the answer is not so simple. When we read the stories in our Bibles, they don’t read like made up stories, or the myths and legends the critics insist they are.
What René Descartes Contributed to our Doubt-O-Meter – Absolute Certainty is a Myth
On a recent trip home to see family and friends, I got into interesting conversations with two gentlemen who are self-described agnostics. I realized something as I thought...
Where Are You on the Doubt-O-Meter? Doubt and Faith Experienced
In my last post, I defined faith, correctly, as trust based on adequate evidence, contrasting it with our secular, postmodern culture's definition as what you need when...
Where Are You on the Doubt-O-Meter? Doubt and Faith Defined
Sociologist Peter Berger has been an influential thinker and writer in my development as a Christian apologist. I have an entire chapter in my book on plausibility,...
Is It Wrong to Torture Babies for Fun?
I can imagine you thinking at this moment, What kind of person would ask such a stupid question! Hang with me, and you'll realize it's not such a stupid question after all....
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: My Encounter with a Postmodernist
If you are not familiar with the phrase, "down the rabbit hole," it comes from the 19th Century Lewis Carroll book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Young Alice goes down a...
Gratitude, Politics, and Protesting
For 220 plus years in America, the peaceful transition of power has happened every four or eight years. Whether from the Federalist Party to the Anti-Federalists, or the...
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Mike D’Virgilio
Thank you for visiting my website. For background, I grew up Catholic, for which I am grateful, as it prepared me to receive the truth of God’s word when it was presented to me from a Protestant perspective. Growing up in the Los Angeles area, I went to Arizona State University in 1978, and moved into a dorm room next to two Jesus freaks, as I thought of them at the time. They invited me to a Bible study by asking if I would like to learn what the Bible had to say about who Jesus is.
Because of several things that happened throughout my teenage years (without getting into how God had prepared me for that moment), that was the perfect question to ask me. Despite having gone to church every Sunday for as long as I can remember, hearing readings from and sermons on Scripture, Jesus was an enigmatic figure to me. For whatever reason (and I do not blame the Catholic church or the church we attended), I had not up to that time been given ears to hear or eyes to see. The seeds of God, however, had been adroitly planted by the Holy Spirit in my soul throughout my young life.
The Persuasive Christian Parent: God’s Provision for Building an Enduring Faith in You and Your Children
I urge you to get a copy, have other parents get copies, and read the book together in a group to strategize about how to best use its exciting content most effectively in your specific situaiton. Thank God for this book, and thank God we Christians never have to fear the truth or reason.
– JP Moreland
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University
Speaking Engagements
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