Bible Quotations, Articles About Alleged Inaccuracies in it, And Stories of People who Became Christians

This is part 3 of 3 in a series about Bible topics. Main themes include the life of Jesus and some of his teaching, instructions on the way Christians should live, and the very first Christians.

• Honesty and the Love of Money.
• Laziness, and Selfishness With Riches.
• Love and Caring.
• Stopping Prejudice, Despising People, Judging by Appearances, and God's Mercy.
• Wisdom, Humility, Arrogance and Boasting.

Links To Stories About Being Freed From Psychological Problems:

• Jesus Delivers Young Lady from Suicidal Thoughts.
• Vicki's Testimony.

Links To Stories Of People Who Became Fulfilled In God: I Found True Freedom. Finally Free! From the Mosque to the Messiah. Saeed, An Iranian Christian Refugee. Does Christianity Work?

The Life, Death And Life Again Of Jesus Christ

• The Supernatural Conception of Jesus; Some of the Miracles that He Did, and Some of the Things that He Said.
• Did Jesus Mean Everything He Said Literally?
• The Last Weeks Before Jesus Was Crucified.
• The Final Words of Jesus to His Disciples Before He was Arrested; and His Trial and Crucifixion.
• The Death of Jesus, His Rise to Life and Appearances to His Followers; and Some Old Testament Prophecies That are Believed to Predict Things About Him.

Links To Medical And Historical Information About Crucifixion: A Physician Analyzes the Crucifixion. History of crucifixion and archeological proof of the cross, as opposed to a stake.
Links To Stories About Jews Who Became Christians: Lead Me to the Messiah. From Darkness To Light.

Links to Stories of Former Atheists Who Became Christians:

• Birth and Death of an Atheist.
• Why I Am a Christian.
• Escape From Nihilism.

The First Christians

• The Beginnings of Christianity.
• The Persecution of the First Christians.

Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ, the Reliability of the Bible, and the Existence of God: Evidence for the Resurrection of Christ - a Challenge for Skeptics. Trial of Jesus. Authentic Accounts in the Gospels. The Real Jesus Christ. The Reliability of the Bible. A Remarkable Collection (how we got the Bible). Science and the Grand Designer. For more links like these, please visit the section: Evidence for the Reliability of the Bible on the page, "Links to Answers to Atheists, Theological Liberals and Other Bible Critics".

Answers to Claims of Errors, Immorality and Contradictions in the Bible:

• The Jealousy of God!
• Answered Objections to Christianity.
• Answers In Action: How Far Can We Trust The Bible?

For more on this topic, visit the section Answers to Claims of Errors, Absurdities and Contradictions in the Bible on the page, "Links to Answers to Atheists, Theological Liberals and Other Bible Critics", where several other topics are also discussed.

• Predictions of the Persecution of Christians
  Instructions Concerning Telling People About Christianity; and the Mistreatment of the Apostle Paul.
• The Unrest Caused by Paul's Message; his Arrest and Appearance Before the High Council in Jerusalem.
• Paul on Trial; Shipwreck; and his Journey to Rome to be Tried by Caesar.

Links To Stories Of Modern-Day Persecution Of Christians:

• The Story of Bassam.
• Suraj El-Din's Testimony.
• A Testimony From a Saudi Believer.
• In the Valley of Tears.

Information On Men Who Are Thought To Have Known Jesus' Apostles Or To Have Known Others Who Did:

• Polycarp Dies a Martyr.
• Introductory Note to the Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians.
• St. Ignatius of Antioch.
• Introductory Note To the Epistle of Ignatius To The Ephesians.
• Irenaeus: a Spiritual Grandson of the Apostle John.
• Clement of Rome Martyred.
• Introductory Note to the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.

Things To Take Seriously And Watch Out For

• Avoiding Sin and Loving One Another; God's Mercy; and Christ's Return.
• The Responsibilities of Church Leaders and Helpers; Problems of Divisions Among Christians; Coping With Sinful Churchgoers; Misleading Teaching; and Baptism.
• Misleading Religious Teaching.
• The Crucial Importance of Doing God's Will.

Common Sins Among Christians:

• You Might be a Spiritual Baby.
• A Letter of Christ.

• Twisted Scriptures - the International Church of Christ and Bible Study.
• Jane Akshar's Story.
• "Once Saved, Always Saved" is Wrong.
• Mormonism in a Nutshell.
• Mormonism's History.
• Book Review - In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of Joseph Smith.
• Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics.
• The Way International - It was a long, long road back.
• My Personal Testimony (Leaving Seventh Day Adventism).
• Jehovah's Witnesses: Witnessing to the Witnesses.
• They Wanted Our Baby to Die; the Inside Story of a Former Third Generation Jehovah's Witness.
• But is it Christian - testimony of Kathy a Former Christian Scientist.
• What to do if a Friend Or Loved-One Joins a Cult.
• Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology.

Links To Information About Bizarre Things Going On In Some Christian Churches:

• James Randi and the Faith Healers.
• The Experience of Someone Who Went to a Church Where They Taught That Women Should Never Cut Their Hair.
• Eleven Marks of Perverted Authority.
• Aberrant Christianity: What is it?
• The Gospel of Health and Prosperity.
• I Received Death Threats From a Prosperity Teacher!
• Christianity and the New Age Gurus.
• Slain in the Spirit.
• Should the Church Apologize to Unity?
• The Intoxicating Spell of Rodney Howard-Browne.

Links To Articles On Psychic and New Age-Type Beliefs And Practices From A Christian and Sceptical Perspective:

• NBC Reveals Psychic Secrets (May 2003)
• Psychic Scams (AsianWeek, Apr 2003).
• Hotlining - An intrepid reporter does hard time in the telepsychic trenches.
• Cold Reading: The Tricks of the Psychics (William Goldberg).
• Houdini: A Magician Among the Spirits (OCHS Houdini Historical Center, 2001).
• The Art of Cold Reading (James Randi Educational Foundation).
• Psychic & clairvoyant scams.
• Before You See a Psychic... (The Association for Skeptical Enquiry).
• Exposed: TV's bogus 'psychics'.
• The confessions of a leading psychic.
• Psychic Detectives.
• Demystifying John Edward of Crossing Over - Truth or Scam?
• John Edwards - Talking to the Dead - Fake or Real?
• Are We Living in a New Age? - Introduction to New Age Beliefs.
• The Tarnished Prophet of the 16th Century - Legacy of Nostradamus.
• A Brief Dictionary of New Age Terminology.
• Discussing the Bible With New Agers.
• Past-Life Recall as Modern Proof for Reincarnation?
• Reincarnation, Karma, the Bible and Christianity.
• Addressing the "Positive Gospel" of the Metaphysical Movement.
• Buddhism.

Links To Testimonies From Former Followers Of Eastern Religions And Occultic And New Age Practises who Believe They Experienced the Supernatural:

• Zen and the Art of Not Knowing God.
• A Strange-But-True Spiritual Journey.
• From Darkness to Light.
• Freedom.

How The Bible says the Devil and Demons Can Operate

• Why God Created Satan.
  (The above link is to a short summary of what the Bible says about why the devil exists and what he does. The other links are to selections of Bible quotes.)
• The Types of Suffering That the Devil and Demons Can Cause.
• How the Devil Can Tempt People to Sin, and Sometimes Cause People to Suffer in Order to Prevent Them From Sinning.
• How Sin Was Brought Into the World Through Deception, its Ultimate Consequences, and How Satan and Spirits Can Cause Ignorance or Deception About Christianity.
• The Overt Supernatural Influence of God's Holy Spirit and Other Spirits.

The Story Of A Person Who Had A Sexual Occult Experience:

• Pestered by a Sexual Spirit?
  This is the story of a young woman who had an occult experience, her response to it, and her concerns over whether she was beginning to suffer from a strange mental illness before she was told that it was caused by a well-known occultic phenomenon.

Links to Stories from People Who Gave Up Sinful Lifestyles to Become Christians:

• A Doctor Meets the Great Physician.
• Son of Hope.
• The Coin Momma Lost.

The Controversial Topic of the Bible and Homosexuality

• What the Bible and a Psychology Book Say About Homosexuality.

Links To Stories From People who Claim to be Former Homosexuals:

• Homosexual No More
• Freedom: A Matter of the Heart.

Note: Some homosexuals have become discouraged because they have been taught they have to change their sexual orientation to be acceptable to God and yet have been unable to do so. But the Bible doesn't say that's a requirement.

Stories of Gay Men Who Found They Couldn't Change and Now Believe God Doesn't Want Them To:

• Ron Poindexter (interview).
• ‘Stepping Out (of Ex-Gay Ministries) in Faith.

Science And The Bible The Bible Story of the Creation of Everything on the Earth by God and the Flood that Destroyed Nearly Everything in the World.
	Science That Backs Up the Bible and Opposes the Theory of Evolution.

Note: While it's interesting to look at alternative viewpoints to the conventional scientific teaching on evolution, it must be remembered that, along with the related Bible quotations, they're linked to here simply for educational purposes - it's important not to be dogmatic about them, or to view such things as necessary to a Christian faith. The Bible often only gives us sketches of the bare outlines of things it says happened, and so an overly-simplistic view of what may have happened in the dim and distant mists of prehistory may lead to a complete and unnecessary rejection of faith because of disillusionment if a more complex understanding of what can currently be pieced together by scientists is gained. Also, medical techniques have been developed using the particular evolutionary principles that have been demonstrated to exist, - (which doesn't mean it's finally been decided that bacteria are our ancient relatives after all, but that change within certain species has been observed to happen - something not many people would deny). Those evolution-inspired medical techniques are actually helping mankind. That of course is the main goal of Christianity, so those developments are in line with it. Thus, it would be wrong for anyone to reject evolutionary principles wholesale. For a description of some exciting new medical and other developments, see: Evolutionary Biology: Technology for the 21st Century.

Stories of Christians who are and were Scientists:

• Do Real Scientists Believe in Creation?
• Recovery from evolution (Alan Galbraith interview)
• Dr Donald James Batten, Creationist Agricultural Scientist.
• World's Greatest Creation Scientists from Y1K to Y2K.

Response to the Claims that Earlier Christians Repressed Science and Learning:

• Challenging Darwinism: A Conversation on Science and Faith.
• Christianity and the beginnings of modern science.
• Did the Christians Burn/Destroy All the Classical Literature?

History, Archaeology And Science:

• Sketches of Church History.
• Archaeology and the Bible - Christian Answers.
• Creation Science Association, (Mid America).
• What is the Theory of Evolution?
• Gregor Mendel and Mendelian Genetics (technical).

Select Your Own Bible Passages Or Topics For Study At Other Sites:

• Choose and Read Passages From the Whole Bible, Search for References to Particular Topics, and Compare Translations, at Crosswalk.com.
• Do the Same at the Bible Gateway, Where You Can also Listen to Bible Chapters.
• Bible and Translation Links.
  Links to online Bibles in various translations.

Clean, Reasonably Tasteful Jokes That Don't Belittle Any Group

• Christian Jokes.
• Church Funnies.
• School Jokes.
• Funny Test Answers - Mainly Science and Health.
• Clean Jokes About Parents And Children.
• Amusing Signs.
• CV (Resumé) Bloopers.
• Work and Money-Related Jokes.
• Funny Extracts From Insurance Claim Forms.
• Reasonably Tasteful Lawyer Jokes.
• Amusing Quotes.
• Bloopers From Church Bulletins.
• Military Jokes.
• Police Jokes.
• Embarrassing Stories.
• True Funny News Stories.

To comment on any of the material on this website, please Email the content organizer. To report broken links (thanks in advance!), suggest changes to the layout of the site, or indeed anything to do with the look of the site itself and/or the HTML, please Email the webmaster. All feedback on any issue is gratefully received. Thanks. :-) If you email us, please use the subject line already there in the email, since there is a spam filter that will otherwise treat an email as spam and delete it. Sorry for any inconvenience; it was put there as an easy way of weeding out and getting rid of all the spam sent to these addresses.

This page is one of several available from Broadcaster.org.uk where you can not only link to pages of Bible quotes, but you can look into our self-help section, and hear sound files on topics including people's experiences of school bullying and their suggested methods of dealing with it, the dangers of cults, the fun side of university life, someone's account of how they were cured of agoraphobia, and someone else's experience of how wearing reflective cycling gear saved them from what could have been a disaster.