But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 3:15

• The word for "answer" comes from the Greek word «απολογία» from which we get the word apologetics.
• The word for "reason" comes from the Greek word «λόγος» from which we get the words logic and logical.

Are you ready to reasonably and logically defend your faith? This web site is devoted to interesting logical arguments about faith that involve information and computation in terms of mathematics, languages, history, science, technology, etc.

Bottom line: Love God and love neighbor (as yourself)! Both are needed! more...

Matthew 10:26-27 The fear deception: focus on friends rather than Jesus

Jesus tells the disciples to "fear" those who "deceive" to kill both "body" and "soul" in "hell". Should one then "fear" the person giving a sermon, with cherry-picked verses, that omits what Jesus said and, instead, covers how to cope with "worldly" "fears" (e.g., with friends)? more...

The one drop of blood salvation fallacy

The "One drop of Jesus's blood was sufficient to cover the sins of all humanity for all of time" fallacy takes what Thomas Aquinas (1225-1284) writes could have potentially happened and is deceptively changed into an actuality and promoted as an established fact. more...

• Tuesday discussion links
• Thursday discussion links

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• Matthew 10 Overview and summary
• Matthew 10:32-37 Confess the sword before men
• Blind goats and prison pits in Matthew (interspersed updates)
• Matthew 10:8-10 The way out of the pit (some added ideas)


• 1 Timothy 2:1-15 Style and content issues
• 1 Timothy 3:1-16 Style and content issues
• 1 Timothy 4:1-16 Conversational interactions by prayer
• 1 Timothy 5:1-25 Style and content issues
• 1 Timothy 6:1-21 Style and content issues


• Cost counting the vote on election callings


• Matthew 7:1-6 Eye of the separation measure (continued)
• 2024-08-05: Matthew 23:1-39 Taking it to the birds


• 2024-07-29: The idea of one God deception
• 2024-07-29: Matthew 10:26-27 The fear deception: focus on friends rather than Jesus
• 2024-07-22: Matthew 14:21-36 The all in one boat fallacy and deception (in progress)


• 2024-03-04: Plausible deniability and narcissism (a start)
• 2024-01-15: The actual potency and inner workings of energy (updates and reorganized)


• 2024-01-15: A candle under the footstool (started)
• 2023-12-11: Sin and good people
• 2023-11-13: Revelation 3:15-16 Zesty hot and frigid cold (cold part, cold water, waxing cold)
• 2023-11-06: Tartarus and the bottomless pit (first part on Tartarus)
• 2023-10-30: A hard look at soft ideas (Luke verses compared to Matthew)
• 2023-11-06: Anthrax as the color of red hot coal


• 2023-08-08: Sheep dogs and wolf dogs (updated)
• 2023-05-22: Genesis 32: Wresting with the dark powers of the night
• 2023-05-15: Against the law: out-law or in-law
• 2023-05-22: Gnashing of the teeth (in progress)

• 2022-12-05: Radical square and other roots
• 2023-04-10: Type theory in the Bible and elsewhere
• 2023-04-10: Drugs in ancient and modern times


• 2023-01-09: A colonoscopy of an annoying and disturbing difficulty (revisit part)
• 2022-10-24: Neophyte
• 2022-09-05: Stoics and Epicureans
• 2022-09-05: Holding back in regards to temperance
• 2022-09-04: The word glory in Latin and Greek (2022-09-03, updated)


• 2022-08-01: A wise opportunity to be prudent
• 2022-07-20: Deferring on a difference of opinion on differences
• 2021-07-04: Good gifts and bad gifts (started 2021-12-12)
• 2022-05-02: A reproof on the use of the word reproof
• 2022-01-03: The coveting of greed

• 2024-11-05: 1 Timothy 1:1-20 Style and content issues
• 2024-10-29: Matthew 15:1-21 Blind leading the blind
• 2024-10-17: Sermon on the Mount: verse model
• Sermon on the Mount connections


• 2024-08-08: Matthew 23:1-4 Jesus fingers the talk about works
• 2024-08-08: Matthew 23:5 Broad prison boxes and head shackles
• 2024-07-29: Matthew 6:1-4 The right secret left with alms


• 2024-10-01: Matthew 11:11 Unborn of women
• 2024-10-01: Matthew 10:40-42 Cold rewards


• 2 Timothy 3:13-17 All writings are surely written (updated and reorganized)
• Pluck out and cut off in Matthew related
• 2024-09-23: John 21:24-25 Giving way to the gospel writing style of John(updated, mostly at end)
• Matthew 7:1-6 Eye of the separation measure (a start)


• 2024-09-16: John 21:24-25 Giving way to the gospel writing style of John
• 2024-09-16: Bringing together an expedient analogy
• 2024-09-16: Colossians 2:1-23 Philosophy and false reasoning through subtle sermons (updated)
• 2024-09-10: Matthew 17-18 The greatest little discourse


• 2024-09-02: Matthew 18:2-11 Great children trapped in the middle
• 2024-09-02: Matthew 18:12-14 Sheep astray on a mountain of definitions
• 2024-09-02: Matthew 18:18-20 Middle agreement to have anything done


• 2024-08-26: Matthew 5:33-37 Reasoning about oaths - yes no
• 2024-08-26: Matthew 5:33-37: Hairs of the head - yes no (related, updated)
• 2024-08-26: Oaths and vows and wells (related, updated)


• 2024-07-22: Matthew 5:43-48 Love your enemies
• 2024-07-08: Minding the tail of the sky (updated)


• 2024-06-17: Matthew 5:39 Turning the other cheek (updated)
• 2024-06-24: Matthew 5:40 A garment cloaked in separation (updated)
• 2024-06-24: Matthew 5:41 Walk a mile for a camel (updated)
• 2024-06-24: Matthew 5:42 Do not loan shirk (added baseball analogy near beginning and Holy Spirit connection near end)
• 2024-07-22: Matthew 5:43-48 Love your enemies
• 2024-07-15: Matthew 5:27-28 Adulterated hearts
• 2024-05-28: Matthew 6:22 Lamp of the body


• 2024-06-10: Matthew 7:6-12 The hunt for holy hounds (updated with play on words)
• 2024-06-10: Matthew 17:24-27 Tacky attacks on a senseless tax (updated with play on words and more logical analysis)
• 2024-05-08: Sermon on the Mount connections
• 2024-04-08: Eclipse Sunday and Moonday


• 2024-03-04: Wesley's front porch analogy of grace (a start)
• 2024-04-01: Shape of the cross (updated)
• 2024-03-25: Moses with horns
• 2024-01-22: Think after what you heard and repent
• 2023-12-11: Interesting Christmas verses


• 2023-11-27: Delimiting the boundary of the region of a mountain
• 2023-11-27: A hope in a persuasive belief in faith into Jesus
• 2023-10-16: Rainbows and the toxic arrow of time
• 2023-09-25: A hard look at soft ideas
• 2023-09-18: Running back again with the palindromes
• 2023-09-18: Meno Paradox: Seeking to learn what you do not know


• 2023-09-11: Streets: Flowing after a path into a plaza
• 2023-08-22: Ready to try anything crafty
• 2023-08-14: Taking care of business
• 2023-07-31: Foxes and birds and nests
• 2023-07-03: Created creatures of the creation
• 2023-06-19: Variations of born again in other words


• 2023-06-08: Crying wolf for the search and seizure of the rapture
• 2023-06-08: Matthew 12:26-29 Snatching the raptured goods from the strong man
• 2023-06-02: Matthew 10:5-10 Possessing acquired purchases
• 2023-05-16: No sword no shoes no service on the way
• 2023-05-08: The security of flaming swords
• 2023-04-17: The sorrowful annoyance of hairsplitting

• 2023-02-21: Some witty remarks on laughing and humor
• 2023-02-07:An opposite angle on the agony of punishment
• 2023-02-06: Existence is not is existence
• 2023-01-31: Stoics and Epicureans
• 2023-01-16: A concise tome on insect divisions and sections
• 2023-01-09: A colonoscopy of an annoying and disturbing difficulty


• 2022-12-19: Whether this or that: What is your opinion on glory?
• 2022-11-28: A good opinion on good opinions
• 2022-12-12: Physical substance and abstract quality
• 2022-12-05: Accidental and intentional actions
• 2022-11-28: Jesus and change (needs integrated into above content)


• 2022-11-21: Doomsday as judgment day
• 2022-10-31: An opposite side to adversity
• 2022-10-03: Non sequitur: to follow or not follow Jesus
• 2022-09-26: The actual potency and inner workings of energy
• 2022-09-19: The full assurance of information
• 2022-09-06: A joyous thank you for the grace of a gaudy favor
• 2022-09-05: A coat of paint for porch pictures

• 2024-05-13: Matthew 5:25-26 Adversarial agreement (play on words update)
• 2024-05-28: Matthew 5:23-24 Alterated gifts
• 2024-07-15: Matthew 5:27-28 Adulterated hearts
• 2024-06-03: Matthew 5:15: This little light of mine (updated play on words)
• 2024-05-13: Matthew 5:22 The danger of brotherly anger
• Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 Second kingdom parable: fault-tolerant approach to the toleration paradox


• Luke 10:1-4 Follow the leader
• Luke 10: 1-20: Leadership principles of Jesus


• John 6:53-61 Misinterpretation and the disappearing blood
• 1 John 1 Top down purpose of life


• 2024-07-15: Ephesians 6:12 Wrestling with words
• Ephesians 3:18 : From lowest depth to highest height (63)
• Colossians: Touched by an angel 1
• 2024-07-01: Revelation 3:7-13 Word play in Philadelphia


• Exodus 20:1-26 The Ten Commandments
• Numbers 22:1-41 The false prophet Balaam
• Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 Trust in God
• Jeremiah 27: Added verses in LXX
• Daniel 4: Witness statement of a non-Jew (54)
• Psalms 2: Self-reference of robots and humans rebelling

• 2024-07-08: The one drop of blood salvation fallacy
• Strawman fallacy
• John 6:53-61 Misinterpretation and the disappearing blood
• Converse fallacy: If A then B does not mean If B then A
• Incredible creeds throughout history
• Equivocation deception between names and meanings
• Red herring: look at me distraction deception

• Greek: Verb imperative mood
• Future tense in Greek
• 2024-05-08: Dative case in Greek
• 2022-12-05: Active and passive actions
• 2023-09-18: Short verses
• 2023-08-14: Sentence diagrams and parsing
• 2023-04-10: Idioms and meaning
• 2022-09-26: Hebrew vav as hook and Greek hook, anchor and hug
• Natural language parsing

• 2022-09-19: Logic: syllogisms
• 2023-12-11: Paradoxes: Beyond expectation of a parallel glory
• 2023-05-22: Binary logical operations