To say that I'm not a fan of J. Warner Wallace would be an understatement. As far as I'm concerned, he and I are equally qualified to talk about the Bible and history. That is to say, not at all. (So, why are you still reading?!?) So any time I see someone competently dunk on... Continue Reading →
Contradictions in the Empty Tomb Narratives: A Response to Erik Manning, Part 4
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 THE ENDING OF MARK To say that the ending of the Gospel of Mark... Continue Reading →
Contradictions in the Empty Tomb Narratives: A Response to Erik Manning, Part 3
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 ANGEL OR ANGELS? In the Gospel of Mark, when the women arrive at the... Continue Reading →
Contradictions in the Empty Tomb Narratives: A Response to Erik Manning, Part 2
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?"Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion 1 WAS THE STONE ALREADY REMOVED? In the Gospel of Mark, as Mary Magdalene, Mary the... Continue Reading →
Contradictions in the Empty Tomb Narratives: A Response to Erik Manning, Part 1
Part 1: Series Introduction and Contradiction #1 - "How Many Women?"Part 2: Contradiction #2 - "Was the Stone Already Removed?" Part 3: Contradiction #3 - "Angel or Angels?" Part 4: Contradiction #4 - "The Ending of Mark" and Series Conclusion SERIES INTRODUCTION It is no understatement to declare that historic Christianity lives and dies by... Continue Reading →
Is the “Nazareth Inscription” from Nazareth?
If you’ve spent any amount of time online perusing Christian apologetics websites, you’ve no doubt come across the Nazareth Inscription, an edict from Caesar found on a slab of marble that prohibits grave robbing under penalty of death.[1] It is called the “Nazareth Inscription” because it was sent to antiquities collector Wilhelm Froehner from Nazareth in 1878.... Continue Reading →
Book Review: ‘Why Christianity Matters’ by SJ Thomason
Author: S.J. ThomasonBook: Why Christianity Matters: Historical, Sociocultural, and Moral Reasons to Follow Jesus Christ (1st edition [out of print])Publisher: Kindle Direct PublishingYear: 2020Total Page Count: 410Price: $14.49 (print) I. INTRODUCTION From the time I was a teenager to just prior to my deconversion, I was an avid reader of Christian apologetics. If you could go back in time to the year 2000,... Continue Reading →
Was Jesus Buried in a Tomb?
On the 24th, Jim Majors will be debating Michael Jones on the question, “Was Jesus buried in a tomb?” For many, the answer will seem to be a no-brainer: of course, he was buried in a tomb! Where else would he have been buried? Moreover, the canonical Gospels all agree on this very point and... Continue Reading →
Evangelical Randy Alcorn Reviews Bart Ehrman’s Book on the Afterlife
Readers of my blog have noticed that over the past couple of weeks I have been throwing up brief snippets from Bart Ehrman’s latest book Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Simon & Schuster, 2020). I for one have enjoyed this volume by Ehrman and have learned quite a bit, mostly concerning Greco-Roman views of... Continue Reading →
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