Was Moses tripping?

Professor 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…

Was Jesus crucified body buried - or just eaten by dogs?

Was 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…

The R.C. Sproul - Alice Cooper - Van Halen - axis

This 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…

C.S. Lewis on the Liberal Higher Criticism of the Bible

“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…

Bible Babylon (part 5)

Manuscript 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…

Bible Babylon (part 4)

What 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…

Bible Babylon (part 3)

Lower 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…

How old is the oldest Latin manuscript of the Bible?

I 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…

Bible Babylon (part 2)

The Contribution of Dr. John Henry Ludlum, Jr. Refuting the Marcan Priority Hypothesis and the Fabled “Q” Gospel One of the theologians mentioned in The Real Jesus is a little known linguistics prodigy named John Henry Ludlum, Jr. Ludlum i…

Bible Babylon (part 1)

This series outlines the history of liberal criticism in the church, it fallacious premises and anti-semitic motivating forces, and then proposes some solutions as to how it can be refuted soundly and systematically rooted out of the popular culture. How…