Apprentice Owl Apologetics

             From recent discussions with family, I have a few questions that I will be writing on to try and give answers to the questions that were brought up. One of the first questions that I had on my list was in regard to the multitude of Biblical translations from Hebrew/Greek into English. The question basically set up as follows, we have multiple translations, such as the KJV, NIV, NLT, etc. that have variations in how the scripture is read. Why should we bother with scripture because we have these imperfect copies? What I want to do here is talk about why we have different translations, and show how that even though we have variations in our English Bibles, that the core message of each scripture is not lost, and that many complaints against Biblical inerrancy are resolved if we use proper cultural understanding, supplemented with looking at the original Hebrew and Greek wording. Fair warning, I am no linguist, so I will be relying on my research, so I will be posting sourc

               I am on summer vacation from teaching, and I was enjoying some time off, but I find myself reminiscing in this free time and realizing that apologetics has been a hobby of mine and a ministry that I feel called to for over 6 years now. I wanted to write a little opinion piece over some of the apologists that I started studying when I was younger, who I found more influential, and comment on some of the “newer” apologists that I have found on the way, When I say “newer” I mean that I stumbled across these apologists after I had started my own ministry, and even though I may quote them, they were not part of my original apologetics study. No disrespect to those on that list, I love all the people on this list and beyond.               For my first few apologists that I learned from, I have to mention Lee Strobel. His “Case for” series of books are awesome works to introduce people to a litany of apologetic topics that are relevant for many of our students today. I know