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🕊️ Welcome to Apologetics

This section equips believers to defend the faith with reason, clarity, and confidence.
The papers here address key challenges to Christianity and provide thoughtful responses rooted in Scripture, history, and logic.

Grouped under Foundational Arguments, these studies include:
  • Defenses of the resurrection
  • Responses to “copycat” mythology claims
  • A practical framework for everyday apologetics
Click any title to access the academic or popular-level paper, along with available audio resources.

APOLOGETICS
  • Foundational Arguments:
    • Layman Apologetics Thesis (A) (a)
    • Jesus Christ and Pagan Mythology (A) (a)
    • Jesus Christ and Copycat Claims (P) (a)
    • Theseus and the Resurrection (A) (a)
    • The Ship, the Tomb, and the Truth (P) (a)

Apologetics
Foundational Arguments
layman_apologetics_thesis_1-9-25.pdf
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layman_apologetics_introduction.mp3
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jesus_christ_and_pagan_mythology_1-4-25.pdf
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jesus_christ_and_pagan_mythology_introduction.mp3
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jesus_christ_and_copycat_claims_1-4-25.pdf
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jesus_christ_and_copycat_claims_1-4-25.mp3
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theseus_and_the_resurrection_4-14-25.pdf
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theseus_and_the_resurrection_introduction.mp3
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the_ship_the_tomb_and_the_truth_4-14-25.pdf
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the_ship_the_tomb_and_the_truth_4-14-25.mp3
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