When you hear the word "cult" many people think of Jonestown or the Branch Davidians. While there are different ways of looking at cults, from both the sociological and theological, the church is showing more and more signs of theological error coming in, ranging from New Age ideologies, historically heretical ideas. But a couple of the more popular cults are the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses. While they use very similar terminologies to the Christian church, the meanings of those terms are foreign to historical Christian teaching.

What makes Christianity different from other religions? It is that the Founder of the Christian faith rose from the dead. As you celebrate this Easter  season, Rob shares three formidable truths that give validity to Jesus’ resurrection. His resurrection was foretold in the Old Testament, prophesied by Jesus himself, and those who claimed to be eyewitnesses were willing to die for believing in a resurrected Christ.  In the second part, he shares some ways you can remember about the truth of the resurrection listing and explaining a few of the 7 E's for the Resurrection (Early Testimony, Eyewitness Testimony, Embarrassing Testimony, Excruciating Testimony, Extra-biblical Testimony, Enemy Attestation, and External Sources).  Rob does not address all them, but you will hear about a lot of them throughout the show

Muslims claim that Jesus never died on a cross using just one verse of the Qur'an.  Skeptics want to throw down objections that Jesus never died or that He swooned on the cross. Aside of the fact that no one walks out of a tomb after being dead, we have to look at who Jesus is, and what He went through to pay the debt that sinners owe a holy God. On The Real Issue Podcast, Rob presents eight evidences that show that Jesus really died and gives some of the details that coincide with the gospel accounts.

If you were asked, "Who is Jesus?" how would you answer the question? Would you just leave it that He is your Savior, or could you give a reason as to why Jesus is the Savior of mankind? Jesus has received a lot of attention as a good teacher or just a good man. For Christians Jesus of Nazareth is the one and only Savior for the sins of man. The cults and the world religions have their own view.

Why does God allow evil things like the Covid-19 (Corona virus) to plague millions of people? Skeptics would say that if God is all loving, He would not allow it and if He was all powerful He would do away with it. But since it exists, He cannot exist.  

With the world spinning sidewards with the Corona virus pandemic, there is also the pandemic with millions affected by the belief of religious pluralism; the idea that all religions say the same thing and all religious ideas are equal. But is that so?  

Have you ever wondered how to get over the fear of starting a spiritual conversation with someone? Where do you begin? Do you know what questions to ask in order to keep the conversation going? On The Real Issue Podcast, Rob shares with you the top questions you can use to start a conversation or keep the conversation going. In this show, Rob shares personal experiences and practical tips on how to use some of the questions. He also shares advice on what to expect in the evangelism encounter and how we should appraise it once it is over.

When self created celebrities like Rhett and Link abandon the faith for an agnosticism of openness and uncertainty, what did their faith look like? While that cannot be answered, Rob dives into the meaning of faith and what it means to have a real Christian faith. In this show, Rob pulls no punches explaining that faith involves three key ingredients: knowledge, belief and trust. Celebrities or not, faith in the Christian sense is loaded with evidences or else it is a blind faith. Check out this episode of The Real Issue Podcast and learn what a real faith looks like.  

The question of God's existence is the most fundamental question still hotly debated by those on both sides of the belief line. On The Real Issue Podcast Rob presents the starting points for tackling this question and then moves into three fundamental arguments for the existence of God: the cosmological argument (creation), the argument from design, and the argument from absolute morality. In the final moments Rob shows how science does not prove God's non-existence by showing five things that science cannot prove.

Is truth knowable?  In our culture today we are seeing truth dying on the streets of our culture from the media, the halls of academia and even in levels of government. Many people today commit fundamental fallacies in trying to push forward their subjective ideas. On The Real Issue Podcast, Rob explains the difference between subjective and objective truth claims. After he shows how the law of noncontradiction is the fundamental for understanding basic truths and how it can be used to refute claims.  In the second part of the show, Rob teaches you how you can turn the claim on itself by thinking through the truth objection and then turning the claim on itself. 

Rob also mentioned the talk he presented on the same subject that you can check out on his Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzvYT5_Xqog

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