https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html Essays answering common Bible contradictions and working through the metaphysical questions behind Christian belief. en-us Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#resurrection-witnesses https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#resurrection-witnesses Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Paul says 500 people saw the risen Jesus at once. No source outside the Bible confirms it. Here's an honest look at what that objection does and doesn't prove. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#morality-without-god https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#morality-without-god Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Plenty of atheists live good, moral lives, that was never really the question. The harder question is what grounds objective moral obligation in the first place. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#jesus-claim-god https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#jesus-claim-god Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 He never says the exact words "I am God" in the Gospels. The claim shows up in other ways, and the people around him clearly understood it. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#ot-nt-god https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#ot-nt-god Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Wrath and judgment on one side, love and mercy on the other. The contrast is real, but it isn't the split it first appears to be. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#three-gods https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#three-gods Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Father, Son, and Spirit, each called God, yet Scripture insists there is only one. The objection treats person and being as the same thing. They are not. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#david-census https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#david-census Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 2 Samuel says the Lord moved David to count Israel. Chronicles says Satan did. Both books can be right at once. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#women-tomb https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#women-tomb Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Matthew names two, Mark names three, Luke leaves it open, John names one. This is exactly what independent eyewitness testimony looks like. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#changes-mind https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#changes-mind Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Numbers says God does not change his mind like a man. Genesis says he regretted making humanity. Both are true. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#contingency-argument https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#contingency-argument Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Not a proof in the mathematical sense, but a serious argument that the universe cannot be its own explanation. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#essence-energies https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#essence-energies Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Palamite distinction is where a lot of East and West disagreement actually starts. Here is what it is and why it matters. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#free-will https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#free-will Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 If God already knows what you will choose tomorrow, is the choice actually yours. A distinction most debates skip past too quickly. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#genealogies https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#genealogies Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Matthew and Luke trace different fathers back from Joseph. First century genealogical convention explains why. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#judas-death https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#judas-death Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Matthew says Judas hanged himself. Acts describes him falling and bursting open. Both can be true, and probably are. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#creation-accounts https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#creation-accounts Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Skeptics point to two orders of creation in the opening chapters of Genesis as proof of an editorial mistake. The genres involved say otherwise. https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#problem-of-evil https://liveorthodox.com/articles.html#problem-of-evil Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 If God is good and all powerful, why does suffering exist. The strongest form of the objection, and where it actually breaks down.