by Stephen Mitchell | Oct 9, 2025 | Jesus and History, New Testament origins, New Testament Reliability
In an age of AI and with scams seeming to be everywhere, we are very aware that everything is not what it claims to be. Are you good at recognizing scams and counterfeits. In the early centuries of the church, they also had to be able to recognize writings that were...
by Stephen Mitchell | Sep 1, 2025 | Jesus and History, Jesus in History base, New Testament, New Testament origins, New Testament Reliability
Let’s test the New Testament. Lots of questions can be answered by posting all available relevant information on a timeline. Even questions not conclusively ansered can be discussed more knowledgeably by understanding chronologically what is known. Was Jesus a real...
by Stephen Mitchell | Jul 5, 2025 | Jesus and History, New Testament Reliability
PDF version available here The New Testament provides eye-witness testimony and early records from Christian perspectives. ...
by Stephen Mitchell | Oct 16, 2020 | Jesus in History base, New Testament, New Testament origins, New Testament Reliability
In this post, I will examine the claim that the message of Christianity changed so much over its early years that we cannot be sure what is real about Jesus. Specifically, we will look at the books of the New Testament that are considered the first written. These give...
by Stephen Mitchell | Sep 14, 2020 | Jesus and History, New Testament Reliability, Old Testament
Link: Study confirms widespread literacy in biblical-period kingdom of Judah Who wrote the Old Testament and when was it written? Few of the books explicitly say who the authors were. Even the books of prophecy tell us little about how the prophecies came to be...
by Stephen Mitchell | Aug 12, 2020 | Jesus and History, New Testament, New Testament Reliability
Several of the accounts in the New Testament claim to have been written by eye witnesses. Eye witness testimony is very strong in examining any historical event. Think about a criminal trial. If the prosecutors have a witness that can say “I saw him do it”, it is...
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