Living amidst a pandemic is challenging. Every second or a third person we may encounter may be suffering.Comforting a suffering soul is not simple. Not all of us can comfort a suffering soul. Sometimes what we say may have quite the opposite effect of comfort.Here's what not to say to a suffering person.Read more...Read time: 7 min…
Emperor Emmanuel Church or Zion is a group located in Kerala, India.This post examines a few facts to determine whether this group is a cult or not.Read more...Read time: 7 min…
Cults are aggressively deceiving God's people. Christians who join cult groups could lose their salvation.It is imperative to understand the nature of the cult groups. Knowledge of their characteristics and their modus operandi will foster a better understanding in us.Read more, if you desire to know more about cults...Read time: 5 min…
When you have been suffering for years together, there are periods of time when you would not want to hope. These are moments when hope hurts.I pray this article would provide encouragement and comfort to those who are in a similar situation.If you are not suffering (to this extent), but if you are genuinely interested in understanding the mind of the suffering soul, then this blog is for you as well.Read more...Read time: 5 min…
Is water baptism necessary for a believer to be filled with the Holy Spirit?Read more...Read time: 3 min…
Young people often wonder if God would lead them to marry the person of HIS choice.Would God will that you marry this girl and not that girl?Would God lead you to the person HE wants you to marry?Would God know who you would marry eventually?More significantly, would God will that any marriage suffers in misery and pain?Read more...Read time: 11 min…
Although the Big Bang Cosmology is the most widely accepted theory for the beginning of our universe, some atheists still claim that our universe came out of nothing. They claim it is possible because Quantum Mechanics explains the origin of something from nothing.Did our universe come out of nothing?Does Quantum Mechanics explain how the universe can come out of nothing?Read more...Read time: 6 min…
Thanks to Dr. Sean McDowell, two modern miracles are listed in this article. These miracles are highly credible because they have been recently published in the medical peer-reviewed journals.Let's keep praying for miracles to happen and it could happen! To say that miracles do not happen anymore or cannot happen is incorrect.Read more...Read time: 8 min…
Ravi Zacharias has passed on, but there'd be no Ravi Zacharias without his wife, Margie (Ravi's wife of 48-years)!This is primarily a thank you Margie message!Read more...Read time: 3 min…
Christians who are neck-deep in Christian apologetics run the risk of looking down on their fellow Christians for not being rooted more in Christian apologetics.This article presents arguments for the veracity of the faith of those Christians who are not apologetically inclined.Also, the arguments that validate the faith of a simple Christian also validate the existence of Historic Christianity even if [hypothetically] there is no evidence for its reality.Read more...Read time: 8 min…
Emphasized in this article are a few points of agreement and disagreement pertaining to the doctrines of sin and salvation in Islam and Christianity.Thus the reader will be exposed to the fundamental dichotomy between Islam & Christianity.Read more...Read time: 7 min…
How do Islam and Christianity compare in the doctrines of sin and salvation?From the Islamic perspective, origin and transmission of sin, major and minor sins, the sovereignty of God, punishment for sins, nature, and means of salvation, and assurance of salvation are discussed. Similar themes from the Historic Christian perspective are discussed for the sake of comparison.Read more...Read time: 22 min…
This article is a response to the meme 'Pray as much as you like, only science will save us.'The response illustrates an atheist's innate bias against God as exemplified by the leading evolutionist, Richard Lewontin.Questions such as 'Does God heal everyone?' and Why pray when God does not heal everyone?' are answered here.Read more...Read time: 7 min…
There is a broad agreement between Science and Historical Christianity about the end of the world. Eschatology is a field of study in science. Physical Eschatology is a scientific field of study that studies the end of this world.This article engages the following themes within the context of the end of the world:1. Secular scientists have moved the doomsday clock 100 seconds to midnight!2. Scientists believe that our universe will eventually end.3. Convergence and divergence between Science and Christianity about the end of the world.4. Scientists believe in the sudden and imminent extinction of our universe.5. Physical Eschatology provides sufficient scope for the existence of a transcendent Creator of the universe.Read more...Read time: 9 min (approx)…
'Why did God create a world with Coronavirus?' is a legitimate question of a suffering person. Could God not have created a world without natural disasters, such as Coronavirus, is a variant of the previous question.Is this world we live in the best of all possible worlds? For if God did not create the best of all possible worlds, humans could feel betrayed given that God has the power to create the best world.Read more...Read time: 6 min (approx)…
How should we respond when an Evangelical Christian scientist publishes a book that posits the existence of evolving human beings (i.e. the view of evolutionary science) outside the Garden of Eden as God created Adam & Eve (the traditional understanding of Genesis)?How does the author justify and reconcile the presence of human beings that were evolving along with the traditional Adam & Eve as understood from Genesis?What are the theological dilemmas in this context?Read more...Read time: 9 min (approx)…
If God designed the Coronavirus, then HE should be evil. But why is God not evil despite the unprecedented harm caused by Coronavirus?Also, an interesting fact during Jesus' time will enable us to overcome uncertainty, fear and worry as we navigate these turbulent waters of lockdown and curfew.Read more...Read time: 7 min (approx)…
Jesus Calls, a ministry of Rev. Paul Dhinkaran, claims that he predicted the in-progress Coronavirus pandemic in 2016. Similarly, Kim Kardashian, on her social media page, shared that psychic Sylvia Browne predicted Coronavirus 12 years ago.Did Rev. Paul Dhinkaran and Sylvia Browne accurately predict Covid-19?Read more...https://rajkumarrichard.blogspot.com/.../did-rev-paul-dhinaka...#COVID2019 #Covid19 #Coronavirus #SylviaBrowne #PaulDhinakaran #JesusCalls #Prediction #ReasonedMusings…
Atheists are known to deem religion as evil. Thus they claim intellectual superiority over people subscribing to other theistic worldviews.But atheism subscribes to determinism, hence they reject free will.If they reject free will, they cannot claim that they are intellectually superior over anyone, let alone theists.How?Read more...…
We know about Jesus Christ's existence from the gospel accounts in the Bible. But our knowledge of Christ's existence is doubly confirmed when hostile non-Christian historical sources affirm Jesus' existence.This article depicts the process followed by historians to determine the existence of the historical Jesus and the wealth of information from the non-Christian sources that reveal a striking similarity to the gospel narratives of Jesus Christ.Read more...…