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 | Aug 28, 2025 | Jesus and History, New Testament, New Testament origins
The New Testament contains four books that tell the story of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They are named for the authors ascribed to them by the early church. The books themselves don’t say who wrote them, but there are some internal clues and significant...
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...
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