My response to a cynic on the chronology of Jesus' life Click play to connect to youtube John Armstrong — Jesus’ doubter, cynic and Deist — posted a video response to The Real Jesus. Above is his video and…
Read moreHere’s the most recent question posed by a viewer of The Real Jesus: Comment from archieabe: I have a comment for you on a related topic, if I may: The typical Christian believer today seems to think that he or…
Read moreProfessor Benny Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, experienced a hallucinatory trip a few years ago when he participated in a tribal ceremony in the Amazon and drank a cocktail made from a plant…
Read moreWas Jesus crucified body buried - or just eaten by dogs? Click play to connect to youtube This three minute video clip is made up of “left-overs” from The Real Jesus DVD that was recently released in December. You…
Read moreThis is another item that belongs in the Johnny Carson “I DID not know THAT!” category. What do heavy metal rock music and Reformed theology have in common? It turns out that there is an affinity of two of the…
Read more“These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can’t see…
Read moreManuscript Evidence for the Reliability of the New Testament Left: a leaf from Codex Vaticanus. Click on the image to see a larger view. When we say that the Bible has over 25,000 early manuscripts that prove its reliability, we…
Read moreWhat about variant texts in biblical manuscripts? I was first introduced to the concept of biblical textual criticism in a biblical interpretation class sponsored by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary at the Center for Urban Ministries in Boston. The professor teaching the…
Read moreLower criticism vs. Higher criticism To fully understand German Higher Criticism, one must first examine the social and political situation in Germany and Europe in the mid to late-1800s. To understand the background of these men sheds incredible light on…
Read moreI was talking to internet radio show host Joe Wyro, a pastor from Chicago, about the integrity and reliability of the New Testament. We were talking about the three most famous disputed passages in the New Testament: 1 John 5:7-8…
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