Thomas Apologia

I haven’t uploaded in a while due to some mental health difficulties. I initially hoped I’d be back sooner, but it’s taken longer than expected to properly reset.

I appreciate your patience and hope to return to posting more consistently when I’m in a better place to do so.

1 month ago | [YT] | 62

Thomas Apologia

In apologetics and intellectual spaces, it’s easy to fall into a subtle but harmful trap: the idea that our value as human beings depends on our output, our originality, our ranking, our place on some imaginary tier list. That way of thinking doesn’t just tempt us toward pride; it also teaches us to quietly despise ourselves when we fail to meet those standards.

But this is not a Christian view of the human person.

A child who dies before contributing a single original idea to the world is still infinitely valuable. So are the countless people who live and die without public recognition, intellectual distinction, or cultural impact. Their worth was never conditional on achievement.

I unknowingly absorbed these non-Christian values into my own thinking, and they severely damaged my mental health.

God does not value you because you are exceptional by worldly standards. He values you because He made you, knows you, and loves you. You are already special, already unique, already worth infinite dignity before you prove anything at all.

1 month ago | [YT] | 58

Thomas Apologia

Something I find interesting in online apologetics is the tension apologists must navigate between being entertaining and being genuinely educational.

Lean too far toward entertainment (which unfortunately I think many online apologists do) and the result is content that lacks real intellectual substance. Apologetics then risks becoming little more than a popularity driven spectacle.

Lean too far in the opposite direction however and the content can become inaccessible or irrelevant to a broader audience.

3 months ago | [YT] | 69

Thomas Apologia

Looking forward to reading these new books! 📚

3 months ago | [YT] | 38

Thomas Apologia

Merry Christmas everyone!🙏🏻

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” - Isaiah‬ ‭9‬:‭6‬

3 months ago | [YT] | 79

Thomas Apologia

Again another excellent job by ‪@chrisatspeakerscorner‬!

The nail in the coffin for me is (1) Fontains position is going to mean that every Islamic scholar was incorrect in the way they use the term ‘people of the book’. His position requires that the term ‘people of the book’ only refers to small communities that had the Injeel in Arabia. Is this the way Islamic scholars have used ahl al-kitāb? Certainly not, for instance many rulings about ‘ahl al-kitāb’ apply to Jews and Christians today!

Further (2) When evaluated as an external critique, his hypothesis looks extremely improbable. Under his view, the Torah and Injīl would have had to circulate in Arabia yet leave no identifiable textual or historical trace. The likelihood of that scenario appears very low compared to the conventional understanding. In Bayesian terms the evidence we have is far less expected under Fontaine’s hypothesis than under Chris’.

4 months ago | [YT] | 9

Thomas Apologia

Great job from ‪@chrisatspeakerscorner‬ as Hamza’s Den demonstrates that he fails his own English test!

The word “only/μονον” restricts “True God” here not “you”. There is a big difference between “you are the only True God” and “only you are the True God”. One statement restricts how many True Gods there are while the other restricts how many persons are the True God.

4 months ago | [YT] | 9