ABOUT ME

Eric Chabot

EDUCATION

M.A Southern Evangelical Seminary

Cross Examined, Apologetics Instructors Academy, Graduate, 2008

Memberships: The Evangelical Philosophical Society

PRIMARY INTERESTS

Motivating God’s people to understand the need for outreach and apologetic training, contemporary issues in the culture, the need for Christians to engage the university, confronting the current intellectual crisis in the local congregation, philosophy of religion, epistemology, the resurrection, Christian origins, the relationship between early Christology and Jewish monotheism, the relationship between the Tanakh and the New Testament,  worldviews, apologetic systems, historical method, the genre of the New Testament, the relationship between science and theology, and hermeneutics.

Ministry Experience: Campus outreach worker/apologist since 2004

Director of Ratio Christi, an apologetics ministry at the The Ohio State University (64,000 students). I am also the director of Ratio Christi at Columbus State Community College (30,000 students).  Website: http://ratiochristi.org/. We have had several well known speakers to the campus such as William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, Michael Licona, Michael Brown, James Tour, Michael Strauss, James Warner Wallace and others. We have also done students debates on the campus.

Speaking Experience: Midwest Representative for CJF Ministries- 2005 to present.   I have spoken in a variety of churches around the Central Ohio region (see endorsements). Some others include:

Speaking experience: Presentations

Topics have included:

• A Look at Jesus in Jewish Context: Why is the Culture so Confused About Jesus?
• Rabbi/Student Relationship: A Look at Discipleship in the First Century and What It Means Today
• What We Can Learn From Paul: Apostle to Jews and Gentiles
• Israel and the Nations: God’s Plan For the World
• How Should a Christian View Israel?
• Why Jesus is Our Passover Lamb
• A Look at Messianic Prophecy: Why Jesus is the Jewish Messiah
• The Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah: The Jewish Background of the Resurrection

Apologetics Training: Presentations

• William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith Chapter in Columbus, Ohio “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist”” Chapel Hill Baptist Church, August, 2011
• Wright State University, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist” September, 2012
• Ohio Northern University “General Apologetics” September, 2012
• Ratio Christi Chapter, University of Alabama at Huntsville, “Messianic Prophecy, The Resurrection of Jesus.” April 2014
• Rio Grande Community College, “ I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist,” March 2013
• UMJC Conference (2012), “Messianic Apologetics.” August 2013
• The National Apologetics Conference in Charlotte, NC, “God and the University,” 2013
• Ratio Christi Symposium, Charlotte, NC, “Messianic Prophecy.” 2013
• National Apologetics Conference, Charlotte, NC, The Fact’s of the Resurrection of Jesus. 2015
• Xenos Summer Institute, “Reaching Jewish People for the Gospel,” July 2014
• Created Equal, “Apologetics and Outreach Training,” June 2014
• Xenos Summer Institute, Jewish Eschatology, Summer 2015
• The F.A.C.T.’s of the Resurrection of Jesus, Chapel Hill Baptist Church, April, 2014
• UMC Church of the Savior, “Apologetics and Outreach Training,” March 2014
• Ratio Christi Chapter, UNCW, “Judaism and Jewish People,” March 2014
• Ratio Christi Chapter, Greensboro, NC Chapter, “The Historical Jesus,” March 2015
• Columbus, Ohio “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist,” London Correctional Institute, September, 2016
• Dwell Community Church, Columbus, Ohio, “Covenantal Love and the Jewish People,” July 2016
• Life Community Church, Columbus, Ohio, “Apologetics and Outreach,” Summer Institute, July 2016
• Ohio University, Athens, Ohio,”Human Rights, and Moral Values/Duties” September, 2016
• Westerville Christian Church: “Responding to Religious Pluralism: “Is Jesus the Only Way of Salvation?” Jan, 2017
• Dwell Community Church: Summer Institute: 2017: “Is Jesus the Only Way of Salvation?” 
• National Apologetics Conference, Charlotte, NC, 2017: “Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah?”
• Ratio Christi Chapter Skype Lecture: “Is Jesus the Messiah?”: Wilmington, NC
• Created Equal: Summer Intern Training, Columbus, Ohio, Summer, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• National Apologetics Conference, Charlotte, NC, 2018, “Answering Common Objections on College Campuses”
• Ratio Christi Event: Discussion Between Rabbi and Christian about Beliefs
• Apologetics Training, Linworth Christian Church, Columbus, Ohio, October 2021
• LCJE Conference, 2022,  “A Case for God’s Existence for Jewish Secularists,” Anaheim, CA

Radio /SkypeBroadcasts

• Alex McFarland’s radio show “Truth Talk Live!”
• Ryan Dobson: Higher Ground
• Evidence 4 Faith
• Nontheology skeptical radio broadcast
• Deeper Waters
• Darrell Bock, Table Talk, Dallas Theological Seminary (recorded Jan 2015, available Fall 2015).
• Soaring Eagle Radio: “Is Yeshua the Jewish Messiah?” 

Television Taped Shows: 

Truth Matters: Whey Should a Christian Care About Yom Kippur? 

Trinity Network: “Was Jesus Crucified?” 

Trinity Network: “What Happened at Nicea?” 

Truth Matters: “Is Christian a Pagan Holiday?” 

Teaching Experience

• From 2009- ongoing, teaching meetings at The Ohio State University and a host of other churches that have been mentioned. 

Courses Taught at The Messianic Studies Institute in Columbus, Ohio: 

• Messianic Apologetics: This course addresses the historical, cultural, and theological Jewish objections to Jesus as the Messiah and introduces students to apologetic thinking and methodologies.
• The Resurrection- Myth or Fact? An overview of the notion of resurrection as found in the Hebrew Scriptures, select writings of the 2nd Temple period, and the New Testament. Particular emphasis is placed on the centrality of the resurrection in the NT, the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, and how the resurrection should affect our daily lives.
• Messianic Prophecy: An overview of God’s wonderful promise of the coming of the Messiah in the Jewish Scriptures. Particular emphasis will be placed on the New Testament use of messianic prophecy.
• Supersessionism: A Look at the History of Supersessionism and the Present-Day Implications for the People of God
• The Jewish Background of Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus
• Idolatry and Identity

Courses Taught at Dwell Fellowship, Columbus, Ohio

• Jewish Roots of Christianity
• Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus
• The Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah

MJTI: Messianic Jewish Theological Institute

Courses Taught

• Jewish Apologetics, Summer 2013

 Gospel Lighthouse Church, Columbus, Ohio

Courses Taught

• Character of God, Character of Man

Youth Ministry Experience

• Co Youth Leader, Beth Messiah Congregation, Columbus, Ohio, 1999- 2002
• Ongoing teacher and volunteer of youth activities
• Leader, Bayt Café Ministry for 20’s

Blog Articles: I note many of my blog posts have been shared on the Poached Egg Apologetics site, Cold Case Christianity, The The Stream,  Cold Case Christianity, and elsewhere.

Publications: Messianic Literature Outreach:

• Messiology and Jewish Monotheism/Fall 2006
• The Impact of Philosophy on the Jewish Community/Winter 2006
• The Resurrection/Spring 2007
• The Messianic Task/Spring 2008
• The Kingdom Of God/Spring 2009
• What is Apologetics?/Spring 2009
• The Messiah: A Complex Issue: Fall/ 2009
• The Jewish Background of the Incarnation In The Gospel of John/ Spring 2010
• Prayer in the Book of Acts/Spring 2010
• A Defense Of The Four Gospels/Spring 2010
• Historical Causation: The Birth Of The Jesus Community/Autumn 2010
• The Reliability Of The New Testament/Spring 2011
• Is Jesus The Only Way? Summer 2011
• God, Are You There? A Cumulative Case For The Existence of God? Fall 2011
• Women in the Gospel of Mark: Fall 2012
• The High Priestly Ministry of Jesus In The Book of Hebrews; Explanation and Application: Fall 2012
• Learning From Our Master: The Apologetics of Jesus: Spring 2013
• Who Were the First Apologists? Spring 2013
• A Theology of Mission: Fall 2013
• Who is the One True God? Prophecy as a Verification Test: Fall 2014
• Who is the Servant of Isaiah 52:13-53:12? Winter 2014
• Also, Answering Objections to the Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah: Mishkan, 2018

I have written a short booklet called “Is Yeshua the Jewish Messiah?” It is available for purchase here.

I have also co-authored another book called Does God Exist? Why It Matters. It can be purchased on Amazon.

I have also written a book called “The Resurrection of the Jewish Messiah