by Stephen Mitchell | Oct 16, 2020 | New Testament, 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 | Archaeology, 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...
by Stephen Mitchell | May 6, 2020 | New Testament Reliability, Uncategorized
Do the books of the Bible include cases of plagiarism? Plagiarism is defined as “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. My guess is that a lot of school teachers probably wonder why sometimes out of 30...
by Stephen Mitchell | Apr 20, 2020 | New Testament Reliability
The New Testament gospels present Jesus to the world. The four authors have been called the “evangelists” and that was certainly part of the reason for these “gospel tracts”. Why were they written? The book of Luke tells us: Inasmuch as many have undertaken to...
by Stephen Mitchell | Apr 17, 2020 | New Testament Reliability
People have gone through periods when everyone believed what they saw in television, but now most don’t believe it all. It is a standard joke that “it must be true, I saw it on the internet”. How about books? Very few religions make historical claims like...
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