by Stephen Mitchell | Aug 6, 2020 | Jesus and History, Jesus in History base, New Testament, Resurrection
Did the story of Jesus coming back from the dead appear many decades after his death and grow over the next hundred years or so? Actually, we have reports that go back to very soon after Jesus’ death. Here I will also compare the reports of the resurrection to that...
by Stephen Mitchell | Jun 15, 2020 | Jesus and History, Miracles
I have been asked, “do you believe all of the miracles reported in the Bible?” Sometimes the questioner will give examples like Jonah and the whale or Joshua and the walls of Jericho. It seems like Old Testament examples are most often used for some reason. The logic...
by Stephen Mitchell | May 20, 2020 | Jesus and History, New Testament, Resurrection
Many children are led to believe in Santa Claus. At some point, they usually begin to question him. Some people just love the magic so much that they refuse to question. I can still remember as a child thinking about all that the myth involved. It had so many holes...
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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