by Stephen Mitchell | Aug 27, 2025 | Church Fathers, Jesus and History, New Testament origins
Some suggest that the people of the first century were eager gullible people who really did not worry about verifying facts. There have always been gullible people. What do we know about the early Christian believers and the way they demanded truth? Did they care?...
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 | May 6, 2020 | New Testament origins, New Testament Reliability
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 origins, 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 origins, 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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