Evan Minton's Blog

When you hear the term “False Friends” in the context of Bible Translations, one typically thinks of examples from the King James Version of The Bible in which words that meant one thing back in the day no longer mean what they mean now. When Yahweh says “Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor’s ass” (Exodus 20:17), He isn’t talking about your neighbor’s butt and whatever it might mean to covet it. Also, “How long halt ye between two opinions?” (1 Kings 18:21) does not mean “How long will you stop be...

Relatively recently, I have read “Salvation By Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and The Gospel Of Jesus The King” by Matthew Bates. Some time later, I read “Gospel Allegiance: What Faith In Jesus Misses For Salvation In Christ” also by Matthew Bates. The latter version is a more popular defense of the thesis in the former book, which is more scholarly in nature. But “Gospel Allegiance” has a deeper focus on practical application and pastoral issues. And in my opinion, it is definitely...

Introduction: In this essay, I will present a somewhat different structured way of defending the resurrection of Jesus via the Acronym A.L.I.V.E, which I have seen several Christian Apologists do, such as Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy, Erik Manning of Testify, and even Timothy McGrew, all of whom I am indebted to for learning about the structure of this argument. The letters of the acronym stand for (A)ppearances To The Disciples, (L)ow Status Of Women, (I)mmediate Proclamation, (V)olunt...

For many years at Cerebral Faith, I’ve pretty much been a Jack Of All Trades. I have written, podcast, and video content on just about every subject in the realm of Christian Apologetics, biblical studies, and theology that one can think of. From the Kalam Cosmological Argument to the Ontological Argument to The Divine Council Worldview, The Problem of Evil, objections to the doctrine of Hell, historical arguments for the resurrection of Jesus, so-called “evil Bible verses” from The Canaanite Co...

Hebrews 4:15 says “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.” (NIV)

In this essay, we will look at the temptations of Jesus as recorded in Matthew 4, and expositionally go through each of the temptations of Jesus, asking crucial questions and seeing how Jesus dealt with temptation can encourage us today when we find ourselves alone on the battlefield fighting spiritual...

As some of you may know, I have become more of a fan of what those in the apologetics community call “The Maximal Data Approach” to defending the resurrection of Jesus. I had an entire 11 part essay series on this blog which eventually was compiled into a book called “The Case For The Reliability Of The Gospels: A Cerebral Faith Blog Book”, which I high recommend reading if you want a robust defense of why Christianity is true, why we can trust that Jesus did indeed claim to be God, died, and ro...

In Matthew 16:18, Jesus told Simon who he had just renamed Peter “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock[a] I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (ESV) In this article, I will connect many theological dots from The Bible to make the case that evangelism is a form of conquest warfare in service of the King of Kings; Jesus the Christ. And this statement about the gates of Hell not prevailing is part of that web of ideas that would have been very fami...

I’ve had a lot of time to sit and think about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative political commentator who made a lot of content for Turning Point USA and who spoke and debated on a lot of college campuses. There are a few reasons why this has caused me so much anger. Yes, it is the murder of an innocent man. That is more than enough reason to feel outrage. However, (1) there are many, many leftists CELEBRATING his murder. The thing is, you don’t have to try to hard to find...

The past couple of days have been really terrible. This is going to be a rather informal blog post, it may read more conversationally than some of my other posts, but there are things happening in the world, and I just feel the need to talk about them. as I write this, I am using the talk to text feature on my phone and the Jetpack app. Normally, I like to type my blog articles on my computer, even if I don’t intend for them to be 50 minute scholarly essays that have 100 footnotes citing my sour...

When I first started getting into Christian Apologetics as an 18-year-old kid, I was introduced to the intelligent design movement. Led by big names such as Stephen Meyer and William Demski, people in this movement seek to establish the existence of a creator and designer of the cosmos and of life.

Ever since it’s inception, the intelligent design movement has had an uphill battle, trying to establish itself as an alternative scientific view of origins to what is perceived as an atheistic vie...