Even though I do not endorse Tekton Apologetics Ministries webmaster J.P. Holding’s consistent use of sarcasm and mockery as opposed to loving enemies and praying for the ones who persecute you, I still found this item hilarious beyond words.

I seem to get this same complaint, especially from a guy I work with, that the Bible just isn’t clear.  As Holding observes, the people who say this are just flat out unwilling to approach the Bible on its own terms.  They rant and rave that God should have been more clear in what He revealed to mankind.  Yet after I explain both the clarity and the unique way that each item in the Old Testament foreshadows or is a symbol of an event or a belief in the New Testament, their eyes glaze over and they protest that what I’ve just said makes too much sense for it to be right (Eph 4:18).
A good example would be the time that my atheist coworker asked about the animal sacrifices.  As usual, he asked me why God changed His mind about animal sacrifices.  This guy loves to start the conversation by pointing out that God changes His mind quite a bit, implying that, in reality, people just get tired of religion one way, so they change it by declaring that God no longer wants us to do something.

So I told him that God didn’t change His mind, but instead something better happened.  I explained that Jesus’ death on the cross was full payment of all sins we have, are, and will commit.  I told him that if he took the care to examine the passages in Exodus that describe the care and preparation of a Passover lamb, then compare them to the description of Jesus’ crucifixion in the gospels, followed by the theological exposition of Jesus’ position as High Priest in the letter to the Hebrews, that he would understand why animal sacrifices are no longer necessary.

He didn’t believe me.  Instead, he just scoffed at how convenient all of that was.  In his mind, that was just evidence that these guys planned all of it just to make money.  Just a story, a carefully contrived story, designed to make its authors a lot of money.   Of course, he has no reasonable explanation for why all of the Apostles were very poor and why they were so willing to march to their deaths to proclaim a message that not only wasn’t making any of them rich, but that they knew was a lie.

And, he has also said that the inconsistencies in the story make it badly in need of editing.  Funny how he seems to claim both that the story is too well written, and that isn’t written well enough.

In light of all that, I would like to be the first one to say that I would buy Holding’s bumper sticker if he ever gets around to marketing it:

Leave it to Tom in the Box News Network to make something this hilarious. This is even funnier when you realize who the caveman is.

I think I laughed the hardest at the line “You may already be pre-selected for a quote” than at anything else in this ad.

What makes TBNN so darned funny is the ability to come up with articles that sound real enough to make you wonder whether or not they really are supposed to be a theological satire site.

Take this one, for example.  Now this would be an easy verse to misread!  And given the fictional church’s background with feuds that last for a long time, coupled with the inability of previous pastors to make peace in the congregation, it would be easy for a person to conclude that this church is “called” to be an angry church.  A new cult is born, as Christian cults are often born, by snipping a single phrase from a single verse out of the context it resides within.