Philistine king of Gerar. Because his name is Semitic, this is sometimes pointed to as an error. But see the relevant portion of our article on the mention of Philistines in Genesis and Exodus.
Abortion
I have some friends in the pro-life movement; this is my nod to them.
Aborted Exegesis -- regarding Brian McKinley's arguments, though the same arguments are also used by Dan Barker, as well as the yodelers at religioustolerance.org, and a number of other folks
Truth Be Told -- a parody of Acharya by an agnostic. This means we don't necessarily endorse all within.
Adonis
Ancient pagan deity, sometimes sourced for the pagan Christ-myth idea; see here.
Adoptionism
A belief held by heretics in the early church that supposed that Jesus was just an "average Joe" whom God picked to put the Christ spirit on. Some critics say that the Bible teaches this view. For a response to this idea, see here
Agape
What is it? Love by any name? Not exactly -- see here.
Ahmed, Nadir
Another Muslim apologist with an obnoxious challenge. Loud mouths galore over there, huh?
Once in a while we'll run across a skeptic, usually of the Acharya S school, who thinks that the word "Amen" (first used in Numbers 5:22, and thereafter a lot in Deuteronomy, and on up into the NT) was somehow derived from the Egyptian god Amun-Re, with the implication that in using the word we are thanking a pagan god. Here's a corrective for that idea from Marvin Wilson's Our Father Abraham [182ff]. The word "amen" is part of a family of Hebrew words stemming from the verb aman, to believe or trust. (Gen. 15:6, "And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.") Other related words are emunah, "faithfulness" or "steadfastness" and emet or "truth."
America
What's here? All that "faith of the Founders" stuff. I love this subject!
Forum denizen so out of the room that I moved response to him to my new parody site, tektoonics.com.
Amirault, Gary
Arguer against eternal punishment. Our answers to his questions on hell here.
Anachronisms
Alleged discrepancies in Scripture involving statements not in accord with the time the document reports or the time it was written. Here is a general response with links to specific Scriptural issues.
Anderson, Neil
Purveyor of a very unusual demonological theory. See here. [Off Site]
Annihilationism
Idea that the souls of the wicked will be totally destroyed, not endure hell.
One of those "everyone is going to hell but me" sites. I have some comments in this article and a closer look at their "The Great Dream" material here.
Aquarian Gospel
One of those "oh yeah, another revelation that happens to overturn Christianity but has poor documentation" documents.
Bible Believers Archaeology - A Bible History Web Book
A bible archaeology web book covering the historical Jesus and biblical archaeology.
Chapters cover both bible history and bible archeology.
Temper-tantrum throwing Biblical scholar who wants to "end" Biblical studies because no one attends his harangues at SBL. Evaluation of his works here.
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