Showing posts with label reliability of the Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reliability of the Bible. Show all posts
Monday, September 11, 2017

Yes Jesus Existed: Even Romans Outside the Bible Wrote About Him

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It seems that given enough of a shine, any bad idea can gain traction. For most of history, scholars have debated the events of the lif...
Monday, May 01, 2017

Archaeology Topples Objection to Biblical Samson Account

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Certainly one of the most fantastic characters in the Bible is Samson. Everything about his exploits reads like a comic book: killing a...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Why the Gospels are History (podcast)

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As we approach Easter, Christians will get inundated with media specials trying to proclaim the "lost" story of the real Jesus...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Clarifying Objections against Bible Reliability

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There's an old joke about a professor walking at his University and sees a young Christian from a small town reading the book of Ex...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Bible Critics and Demands for Archaeological Proof

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Christianity is a literate faith. By that I mean it is written accounts of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus that are at the c...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Bill Maher Whores out the Horus Myth Against Jesus

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A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. That aphorism is no truer than within the new atheism where people become instant ex...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Answering Bible Contradiction Claims (video)

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Last week I gave two talks at the annual Speaking the Truth in Love apologetics conference. Here is the video from one of those, entitle...
Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Ignoring the Eyewitnesses to the Resurrection

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Is the resurrection account of Jesus true? Skeptic will say no. They hold the resurrection of Christ is fiction, created either by int...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Why the Resurrection Cannot be a Lie

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Easter week is here and Christians are getting ready to mark the rising of Jesus from the grave. The Resurrection is the foundational ev...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

The Gospels Had to Meet High Expectations as History

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Apologists often make the claim that the resurrection is one of the most well-attested facts of ancient history. Some of this is due to...
Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Talking Wrong and Testimony as Trustworthy

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When I was a kid, I listened to Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy album. Martin told a joke there about a dirty trick to play on a...
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, 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...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Gospel Variations and Ancient Biography

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Much gets made by skeptics these days about the supposed contradictory accounts of Jesus's life in the four Gospels.  They ask abou...
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...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Can You Trust the Bible? (podcast)

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Christians hold that the Bible is God's revealed word given to us. But critics argue that the Bible was written by men and changed ove...
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...