Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Archaeology and the Bible (podcast)

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The Bible is unique among sacred texts in that it is set against a historical backdrop. Do recent archaeological discoveries validate or ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Scholars Agree: Luke and Acts are History

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Among skeptics there's a rather vocal contingent that wishes to classify Jesus as mythical and the events of the Apostles as charades. ...
Friday, April 24, 2015

The Muslim Root of the Armenian Genocide

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When we hear the accounts of oppression and slaughter coming out of the Middle East we're horrified. I recently read of one such story...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Beware of Becoming a Christian Hermit!

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In 1694, a group of forty Bible believers headed to an area known as Wissahickon, on the outskirts of what was then the civilized area of ...
Monday, March 30, 2015

How Can the New Testament Be Trusted If the Writers Are Biased?

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There are many people who are skeptical of the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection. Atheist Michael Martin, in hi...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

The Shocking Biology Book that Triggered the Scopes Trial

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Whenever the famous Scopes "Monkey" Trial is brought up, most people believe it is a concrete example of the stubbornness of rel...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Blow-Hard Bias of Inherit the Wind

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"I'm frustrated!" The plea came in from a girl who was taking a required undergrad English course where the professor as...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Unlikely Candidates for Gospel Writers

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Do you ever remember cutting class in High School? Perhaps there was an event you wanted to attend, so you decided to ditch one day. The pr...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

Who Wrote the Gospels - Evidence for Luke

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Last week, I wrote about how the early church fathers provided testimony going all the way back to the disciples of the apostles themselv...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Who Wrote the Gospels – Testimony from the Church Fathers

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In my interactions with skeptics, I've noticed a recurring trend. They take a certain pride being both skeptical and reasonable. They ...
Friday, February 06, 2015

What Were the Crusades? Busting Some Myths

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Just what were the Crusades? In his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, President Obama likened the evil savagery that ISIS...
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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? (Podcast)

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Every Christmas and Easter the charge is made that these holidays were originally pagan celebrations that Christians usurped for their own p...
Friday, December 19, 2014

A (Not Too) Serious Christmas Quiz

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With Christmas rapidly approaching, mainstream media fills its coffers with tales of how Jesus never existed or why the traditional Chris...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

The Date of Christmas has Nothing to Do with Pagan Holidays (video)

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Is Christmas really just a repackaging of a Roman Feast? Two Roman celebrations, Saturnalia and Sol Invictus, were celebrated in Decembe...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Evangelicals Shouldn't Ignore Christian Iconography

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Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society along with its sister organization, th...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

One Reason Why Jesus Cannot be Mythical

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It is becoming more and more popular in certain atheist circles to claim that Jesus never existed. They claim that the story of the Messiah...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

Heresies and Scripture - Podcast

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What are heresies and why are they so important to avoid? During the first 400 years of the Christianity's existence, the church fathers...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

What Archaeology Cannot Tell Us About the Bible

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Yesterday, I began to look at some ways the study of archaeology helps support and understand the Bible . Given that the Bible is a collec...
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