Why did the High Priest react so violently when Jesus said he would see him coming on the clouds? Why is the location so important when Jesus named Simon "Peter?" Why did God send such strange plagues on Egypt? If you've ever wonder about what going on behind the text of Scripture, this book may be a good place to look. "Behind the Bible" is a collection of essays that tackle these and many other questions people have about the Old and New Testament.
Protestants and Catholics alike share the faith that all scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and training in righteousness (2Tim 3:16). But one area where they disagree is over just which writings make up the Bible. In particular they differ over whether the seven books of the Old Testament sometimes called "deuterocanonical" are inspired scripture or not. In a previous book, Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger, Gary Michuta addressed the historical question of whether Protestants removed these books from the Bible or Catholics added them. Now in The Case for the Deuterocanon: Evidence and Arguments he takes on the burden of showing that they should not have been removed. Bringing together evidence from the New Testament as well as Jewish and early Christian history, he carefully builds a compelling cumulative argument that the disputed books are part of the Bible that Jesus and His Apostles handed on to the Church. They are Scripture in the fullest sense, divinely inspired and capable of confirming Christian doctrine.
"We seem to be living in an age of insanity. Crimes against children, born and unborn; marriage defiled and redefined; gender confusion; the looming terror of trans-human-ism . . . the list goes on and on. And it's getting uglier out there every day. Everywhere you look, the culture is twisting truth into lies and lies into truth. How did we get to this bizarre point in history? More importantly, how can we fight the tide of insanity and win reality back? In Revolt Against Reality, Gary Michuta (Hostile Witnesses, Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger) explains how an army of liars, manipulators, and bad actors has conspired literally from the beginning to thwart God's plan for man--a plan of order and peace, centered on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. Michuta takes you step by step through history, unmasking the enemies of faith and reason in every age--all the way back to Satan himself, who in the Garden of Eden promised that we could become our own gods. Since then, every error, heresy, and moral abomination has been part of the same intricate network of lies, designed by the Father of Lies, to wrench us from what makes sense and trap us in a prison of contradiction and chaos. We'll never restore sanity to the world until we know how the enemy operates"--Back cover
A practical guide to detecting whether your child is being recruited out of the Faith and intervene to bring them back. It includes steps that you can take to make it more difficult for these "wolves" to "sheep-steel" your children, and how to re-start the conversations if they have already left.
"Michuta looks at dozens of Christianity's most notorious foes beginning with the New Testament ... through the twentieth century and draws from their antagonistic words and deeds ... testimony to gospel truths. From the Pharisees to the Nazis, from the Crusades to the Reformation, he presents a parade of skeptics, heretics, pagan powers, and rival sects, each taking a turn in the witness's chair and giving an unexpected ... account in favor of Christ"--Amazon.com
