Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2015

How Can We be Sure Where Jesus Was Born?

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 Most childhood plays of the Christmas story show a young Mary and Joseph wandering from house to house in Bethlehem, knocking on doo...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Christmas, the Solstice, and December 25th

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Over the last two posts, I've explained how historical research is showing the date for celebrating Christmas was not chosen becau...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Date of Saturnalia Doesn't Line Up with Christmas

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There is a widespread conjecture that the early Christians began celebrating Christmas on December 25 as a response to pagan Roman holi...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

No, Christmas Is Not Based on a Pagan Holiday

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Christmas is a much-beloved holiday, celebrated by billions of people across the globe. In the U.S. Alone, the Pew Center reports that...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Throwing Out the Riches of Christian History

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After the discovery of gold in California in 1849, the American west was bristling with gold fever. Prospectors were traveling to both ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Make Your Thanksgiving Meaningful: A Collection of Writings

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Thanksgiving is a unique holiday in the United States. It recognizes and promotes religious observance in the form of thanking God for ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Did the New Testament Authors Know They Were Writing Scripture?

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The New Testament is crucial to Christianity. It provides the basis of knowledge not simply for Jesus's life and ministry, but also ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

'Secular' Nations are Coasting Off Christian Fuel

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"No one need fear that the Titanic will go down. Even though all her former compartments and bulkheads were stove in by the iceber...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Was Jesus Buried in a Tomb?

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It's clear that Christianity lives or dies by the resurrection of Jesus. A central part of the resurrection account is that Jesus...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Why the Gospels Cannot be Dismissed as "Religious"

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Yesterday, I was part of a panel answering questions at the local college. A member of the Secular Students Alliance approached us and...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Thank Christianity for the Technology Revolution

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The standard narrative of secularists is that religion offers a backwards view of the world that is outdated in our technologically advanc...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Who Counts as a Christian? (video)

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Mormons claim to be Christians as do Jehovah's Witnesses. But each belief system contradicts the other as to what kind of being Chri...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

How Christianity Lifts Cultures Out of Poverty

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Sometimes it's good to get an outside perspective on history. Vishal Mangalwadi was raised a Hindu in his native India, but he cou...
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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Why Archaeology is Important for the Christian (video)

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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...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

What Friends' Phoebe Can Teach Us About the Empty Tomb

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The linchpin of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus. Simply put, the entire belief system hangs on this fact of history; destro...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

How Archaeology Confirms the Bible: Jericho (video)

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Everyone know the story of Joshua's army marching around the walls of Jericho until they collapsed, allowing the Israelites to take t...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

How Archaeology Confirms the Bible: Hazor, Joshua, and Solomon (video)

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Did Joshua really exist and conquer the Canaanite lands? Were King David and King Solomon myths invented to encourage returning Israel e...
Saturday, August 01, 2015

How Archaeology Confirms the Book of Daniel (video)

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The Bible contains many prophecies such as those in the book of Daniel that tell of future kingdoms with remarkable accuracy. This has l...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Six Errors Jesus Mythicists Repeatedly Make

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The fact that Jesus lived 2,000 years ago in Palestine and a following grew out of his teachings is evident. Even Bart Ehrman, as skeptical...
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