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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
I had not planned to write about pop-apologist SJ Thomason for a while. Back in February she wrote a response to a piece I had written concerning the dating of the Gospels[1] and while I had been working on a rebuttal to it I gave it up because, let’s be honest, it would take way too... Continue Reading →
To see other posts in this series, please go to the series’ page. Among the most memorable and iconic verses from the King James Bible is the one with which it begins: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Other translations follow suit, including the NIV, ESV, and NASB.[1] And like the... Continue Reading →
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