What you heard, and what’s actually true.
If someone sent you here, thank you for opening the link. Each page states the claim as you would, says what is true in it, and then lays out the evidence. Every source is listed, so you can check it.
Claims by topic
Start from what you believe
Claims a particular community tends to raise.
- Jehovah's Witness TeachingTeachings of the Watch Tower Society, read alongside the Bible.13 claims
- Latter-day Saint TeachingTeachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.6 claims
- Islam and the GospelClaims about Jesus and the Bible often heard from Muslims.10 claims
- Judaism and JesusClaims about Jesus and the Messiah often heard from Jewish readers.7 claims
Start from the question
Claims gathered by what they are about.
- Doubts about God and the GospelsClaims that Jesus, the Gospels, or God himself don't hold up to scrutiny.9 claims
- Evil, Judgment, and ScienceClaims about suffering, hell, miracles, and science.5 claims
- The Cross and the ResurrectionClaims about whether Jesus lived, died on a cross, and rose.6 claims
- Evidence and ReasonHow the evidence is weighed, and what counts as a good reason.9 claims
- Where the Bible Came FromClaims that the Bible was changed, corrupted, or assembled late.15 claims
- Who Jesus IsClaims about whether Jesus is God, an angel, or a prophet.11 claims
- The Messiah and the CovenantClaims about the Messiah, prophecy, and the covenant with Israel.6 claims
Written for someone who disagrees
Your view first. Every page opens with the claim as you would say it, and the best reasons for holding it. If we get that wrong, nothing after it is worth reading.
What is true, said plainly. Most claims start from something real, and we name it before we disagree with anything.
Ground you already stand on. We do not ask a skeptic to trust the Bible, or a Jehovah's Witness to trust a church council. Each page argues from evidence its reader already accepts.
Sources you can check. Quotations are word for word, and every page lists its sources, including scholars who are not Christians.
Reasons to take a second look
The rest of the site answers claims. These pages make the case for Christianity itself, one step at a time.
- Biblical monotheismIsaiah denies that any god was formed before or after the LORD. That rules out a family of gods and gods who were once creatures, and it sets the test for every later claim.
- Contingency and creationScience explains one state of the world by an earlier one. It cannot say why there is anything to study, and a self-existent ground answers that better than a brute fact.
- Daniel 9 and the Messiah before the Temple's destructionDaniel 9 is difficult and its arithmetic is disputed, but its sequence is clear. An anointed one is cut off, and then the city and sanctuary are destroyed.
- Fine-tuning and ordered creationThe weak popular examples fall away. What remains is the constants and starting conditions of physics, and design is one explanation worth weighing.